Fine old Leningrad/St Petersburg terminal in the background there, still in use by BA until about 10 years ago when the new midfield terminal opened. I've been a regular in there for the last 20 years. BA normally used one of the three (only) jetways, most others being on the coaching stands as here. The terminal building, still there, is a fine example of Soviet late-1930s Stalinist architecture with exterior stonework decoration, which seemed reminiscent of the old Liverpool terminal building of the same era, while inside it felt like a British secondary school layout. We actually thought it worked better, in many respects, than its replacement. At the end it was towered over from outside by charter 747s headed for Turkish resorts.
BA Tridents just once weekly until the late 1970s, when 737-200s took over, the ones BA leased from Transavia at first, although some years it seemed cancelled altogether.