Originally Posted by
John Ty Isaf
A plan to fly Laker to Greece on the A300 in 1982 came to nothing due to their bankruptcy.
The first three A300s were delivered for the 1981 season. Freddie wanted to do Skytrain across Europe, from London to Amsterdam, Madrid, Rome etc with them (10 were ordered), but as ever the aircraft came before the licences, and they were deployed for the last year on holiday ITs instead. Two at Gatwick and one at Manchester. I think they were the only widebodies on holiday flight work that year.