Originally Posted by
rog747
Braathens ...
When I was in Edinburgh in the 1970s the university (and to a lesser extent the city) had a special relationship with Norway, and there were over 100 students from there.
Every start and end of term, Braathens did charters from Oslo to Edinburgh for them. At first it was one of their DC-6Bs, which had to do two round trips, and spent the best part of a day doing so. Eventually it was changed over to a 737, which just did one trip, sufficiently fast that it could be squeezed in between an early morning Norwegian domestic return pair and a late-lunchtime IT flight to Spain, the latter seeming to be pushed back a couple of hours. A very good example of the increase in efficiency the likes of a 737 brought along.