1950's airlines at LON
What airlines did we see at North side?
BOAC up to the Comet 4 and 707 era
Pan Am up to the 707 era
TWA
TCA up to the DC-8 era
KLM
SAS
Flugfelag (Iceland Airways)
Air India up to the 707 era
Qantas Empire up to the 707 era
SAA
Lufthansa
Swiss Air
Air France
Panair do Brasil
Air Ceylon
PIA first 707 1960
CAA
CAA WAAC EAAC SAA Malayan Nigeria Ghana BWIA (all flown by BOAC types)
Aeroflot
EL AL
Slick
Sabena
Iberia
Capitol
Hunting Clan
Fascinating stuff, seems St Mawgan NQY was the only other place that had the same tower as Heathrow, complete with the SECO huts and Met. square all laid out the same, it's all still there?
Runway No1 28R/10L was closed from about 1952 - 1955 while the road tunnel was dug by cut and cover. The eastern end was used for overspill aircraft parking from the Northside apron which BEA was using increasingly with Ambassadors and Viscounts and eventually all of their London ops went there when they had to vacate Northolt, the passengers were processed in the Northside terminal then bussed to the temporary apron on Runway No1.