Originally Posted by
Mooncrest
That's a lot of work for two elderly 1-11s. By the end of the season, WLAD was wearing the British Midland Diamond colours and was on damp lease to this airline, based at Leeds Bradford to operate the Heathrow flights. Surplus to requirement at Cymru, I guess.
They'd only have been 18/19 years young so younger than the Jet2 737-300s that are in service today, and compared to many IT operations of the era they were pretty lightly raced with few overnight ops. meaning that there was some slack in the schedule to catch up delays.