Originally Posted by
Trinity 09L
Thanks for confirmation on Finnair assisting BA, a colleague said he was booked to travel as such shortly. Similar to boarding ANZ DC10 to the east of USA in the past.
Not at all, those were crewed wholly by BA, who set up a DC-10 pilot pool at Heathrow to run them, for quite some years in the late 1970s. The crew used to go to KLM in Amsterdam for their periodic Sim sessions. There were aircraft utilisation reasons why they came to this arrangement with ANZ, which I was a regular on LHR-LAX in those years. There's a periodic poster on here who was one of the BA FOs on this at the time.