Originally Posted by
BACsuperVC10
Did these fly over the channel from Lydd ?
Dan Air Skyways absorbed Skyways International, formerly Skyways Coach-Air and the HS748 operation was from Ashford (Lympne). They also flew a small schedule from EMA (then of course CDD) to Beauvais for a number of seasons between the late 1960s and early 1970s. They flew Coach-Air services from London to Paris flying Ashford-Beauvais. Then there was Skyways Cargo Airline that I seem to recall flew from Lydd to Beauvais using a fleet of DC3s. I believe that they worked closely with a French freight forwarder, Beauvais Transport SA whom I would up working for some years later - long after the DC3 operation was history, and nightly trucks were flavour of the month.