Originally Posted by
chevvron
I did a Gatwick - Rotterdam trip with BAF in a Viscount but I failed to note the date however it must have been later than '81 (possbly even late '80s);because for some reason I stopped keeping my log of passenger flights.
BAF found an enormous variety of work for their Viscounts, not a lot under their own name, but many subcharters and contract operations far and wide, oil industry work from Aberdeen and Algeria, Royal Mail flights, etc. Was this flight actually a B Cal operation which BAF ran for them. They did the same for Virgin from Gatwick to Maastricht. One aircraft was liveried up appropriately, but the rest of the fleet would stand in as required.
Must have been about 1992. My regular Air UK 146 Stansted to Edinburgh, we got a rejected take off and returned to stand. Time rolled on, there were messages that an alternative aircraft was being sought. There was a BAF Viscount idle on the next stand. I was hoping, I was really hoping ...
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Alas not.