Originally Posted by
MENELAUS
Air 2000 in fact. Pre cursor to Flying Colours. One aircraft leased to BA for the winter season, which was generally the quiet season for charter outfits esp when starting up. And was also the reason that the Canada 3000 operation commenced, although that failed to pan out as originally planned.
Different seat configuration to the “ shuttle “ aircraft at 233, and RB211 E4’s as opposed to C’s or D’s.
And yes, in AE, we did take a couple of BA 757's in BA colours but with Air Europe written on the side. Just a summer contract
A bit more on Air Europe. A downtown in traffic led to BA letting some of their 757 order go to Air Europe with the proviso that they got them back when required. At least one of them, G-BKRM, flew in a number of hybrid liverys over a number of years such as the Air Europe scheme with the large "British" titles then later in the BA Landor scheme with Air Europe titles. I remember boarding BKRM one Christmas at Heathrow for a Shuttle flight to Glasgow (it was in the first scheme I described) and walking in the front door and being able to see right to the back of the rear cabin - no bulkheads or partitions along the whole aircraft. Certainly different from BA's usual configuration.