Originally Posted by
rog747
G-BRKG Del. 1990 to AE as a 737-4S3 but after AE's demise 3/91, ILFC leased it 4/91 to DA and re-regd as G-TREN
I cannot find any Ref as to why this Registration was sequenced. There seems to be no notable persons at Dan Air whom this could have recognised.
737-4S3's G-BKPA, PB and PE were all also obtained from AE at the same time, and became G-BGVM, VN and VO with Dan Air.
Dan Air's own brand new orders (via ILFC) for 737-3Q8 and 737-4Q8 were all due in 1993 but sadly Not Built.
737-4Q8 G-BUHK and HL
737-3Q8 G-BUHI and HJ
The Dan Air 737-300 and -400 fleets was entirely absorbed into British Airways, and some of them also flew for BA Franchise GB Airways.
As an aside Lloyds Bank were very negative to Dan Air who were struggling and Lloyds were advising ILG (AE) to take over Dan Air in 1991.
ILG had its own financial troubles with it's loans with Citibank and as it was no finance was forthcoming and AE went under within 24 hours on 8/3/91.
Although after AE's collapse many Tour Operators were looking for seats and uplift and Dan Air was well placed to take this work on, but the DA Board chose to ignore this and wanted to become an all-scheduled airline, in addition they were well placed to take over some of AE's prime scheduled routes.
The Financial industry had advised DA to gain vertical integration for quality charter flights with a large Tour Operator, or set up its own. Again this was ignored by the Board.
After AE's collapse summer bookings for Thomsons, Horizon and Airtours all soared by as much as 40%.
In May 1992 DA was LGW's largest resident & short haul operator there, with a good number of peak slots.
Despite this, Dan Air's Board strategy and thinking which could have made them into the No.1 scheduled carrier at LGW by choice was not driven, nor was the chance to rid the image of a cheap charter airline.
During 1992 there was much negotiations to save Dan Air all of which the history of can be found on the Dan Air website.
Of course, Gulf War 1 was in part a big player in both airline's woes...
rog747 always enjoy your posts!