Originally Posted by
GBYAJ
yes for a number of years the BA737 that night stopped in NCL went to PMI, IBZ and GRO over the weekend.
This was a longstanding hangover from the days when BKS/Northeast was a (semi) independent carrier, and had contracts with Airways Holidays, who were the principal regional tour company in Newcastle. The Northeast Tridents there were used in the same way, scheduled trunk runs to London, along with night/weekend holiday charters.
In recent times BA Cityflyer have got into a similar market with their Embraers; returning from Palma a few years ago to London City it was quite a surprise to find no less than four of the BA E190s lined up together on the remote stands there, holiday charters to Glasgow/Edinburgh etc.