My first charter wide body experience was by chance. 08.02.92, pitched up at LGW for my package ski-holiday and a BY flight to ZRH
Boarded a bus, heading to a remote stand, but no BY 737 in sight. Bus stopped by the stairs of G-BBAF, resplendent in its Caledonian colours and thus I enjoyed a unique experience of a relatively lightly loaded L1011 charter flight. Flight home was back to BY with G-AVRN providing the service
Five years later managed to ride her sisters BBAH and BBAI, LGW-DLM-LGW.
Those G-BBA....L1011's did sterling work on the bucket and spade and snow plough runs after their mainline BA days were over.
A shout for Monarch's A300-600's, A330's and of course their sole DC-10, part of which is preserved at MAN
In 1985, I flew to Ibiza and back on Tristar G-BBAE when it was part of British Airtours' fleet.