Originally Posted by
Rutan16
Nope Air China Cargo served Manchester with 747 freighter scheduled services between 2007 and 2009 .
The List of former Freight operators is pretty long.
Straight off the top of my head
Air China Cargo
China Airlines
Air Hong Kong
Cathay Pacific
Some Singapore Carrier name i forget
Aeroflot
North West Orient
Air Express ( CL-44 !)
Emery ( DC-8)
And back into 70s just about every European flag carrier at stupid o’clock
Sure missed a few !
For part of the duration, the Emery Worldwide service was flown under contract by Rosenbalm Aviation with DC-8s in Emery c/s. I remember listening to them on my airband as a young youth. Their crews used the shortened "Rosy" callsign which always made me smile. One crew also referred to their allocated stand as a pan, much to the bemusement of Manchester Ground.
I'm pretty sure Transamerica ran a regular cargo operation in their own name with stretched DC-8s but this might have been a precursor to Emery taking the service over with metal in their own colours. I can even remember the inbound callsign Transamerica 668 being used. It was a couple of years earlier than the Rosenbalm operation. I've an old MAN Airport glossy rag somewhere with a Transamerica 8 pictured on one of the 60s stands.
Happy days.