Originally Posted by
WHBM
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.
Slightly OT, but BA used to do the engineering as well on those ANZ DC-10s at LHR. I remember an urgent search through the maintenance records as soon as the news came through about the Erebus crash, before it became clear that it was unlikely to have been a technical issue.