Originally Posted by
treadigraph
Did any of the BCAL/Dan-Air ladies come through BKS/Channel Airways?
Elizabeth Overbury was certainly Dan-Air but it think it was Yvonne Pope-Sintes who was their first female pilot and first Captain. If memory serves she started on the 748 before moving to the Comet. There were several others whose names escape me as do the BCAL gals... Did Laker have any?
I was stationed in Glasgow for much of 1972 and talked to Yvonne on the radio frequently.
She would usually leave one engine running for the turnaround so she coud get in and out quickly.