Originally Posted by
WHBM
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.
Don't remember there being one full time at MAN? The fancy underfloor system made loading the cargo containers a b*gger compared to the more robust system on the DC-10 - mishappen baggage containers never stood a chance....