Originally Posted by
Flightrider
Missing from the above, FlyGlobespan and Crown Air, a DC8-52 operation in the early 90s which did two summers at Manchester and Gatwick before never being seen again. They changed to 06 departures mid way through the day one day and the DC8 came roaring up the hill in a cloud of black smoke and barely cleared the localiser on take-off.
And yes, the BA VC10 service for many years was JFK-YYZ-PIK-MAN daily even through most of the winter. It connected on to a VC10 service running into Jamaica and the Caribbean at JFK.
Airlines will go where they make money. AC might have different views on where to fly in the winter to use their aircraft to generate the best return. Unless you have spare aircraft and crews sitting about, Manchester is probably a less attractive bet than many others.
Don’t recall New York and Toronto regularly combined from Manchester ( through willing to accept it may have happened in the odd timetable cycle and that now have no recollection of )
Own memories were something like
BA53x something to JFK via Prestwick
BA46x something to Montreal and Toronto via Prestwick
A weekly service ran beyond JFK to the Caribbean and terminated in Georgetown in Guyana operated with a std VC10
BA later split the Canadian ops with a separate and lower frequency service direct to Montreal and brought in the 747 to Manchester at the same time.
Montreal was finally dropped completely.
For the most part the weekly scheduled dropped to a single near daily link to Prestwick alternating between JFK and Canada with a feed available on the non op days to the alternate ( Including the Prestwick Air Canada operated flights )
And chaps thanks I expected that I’d miss a few.
Birmingham however did have a short programme of via US to Toronto ops with the 757 for memory.