Originally Posted by
ATNotts
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.
Fair point but the dynamic duo could well have been operating in a harsher environment than Europe. Lots of airframe deicing and surface decontamination in the bleak Canadian winters. Factors that don't exactly prolong an aeroplane's service life. Anyhow, 35 years later it's all rather academic.
Does anyone suppose British Midland had a choice in which 1-11 they were getting for the lease ?