Change, Change, Change!
Nothing ever stays the same - which I why airports are interesting places to work.
Anyone for a photo swap session? I think back to the BMA and Orion check-in desks where Boots is now. Remember those huge weighing scales??
Aer Lingus always were tucked right into the cormer by the newsagent. Air Ecosse/Aberdeen Airways/Business Air were the first check-in after the newsagent, then Britannia Airways. All with manually changed signage and slide-in/out digits for the flight numbers.
Remember every landing was announced? Stood on the balcony upstairs, no sooner had the wheels of BMA's DC9 flight from Paris touched the runway when, Bing Bong "British Midland Airways announce the arrive of flight BD257 from Paris CHarles de Gaulle".
The whole landside terminal could hear an ATP taxiing onto stand - though nothing, but nothing is as nostalgic as the whine of the Viscounts!
Aviogenex on Sundays. Spanair DC8's.
oh boy - I'm on a roll now.......somebody stop me
That big plastic Crocadile at the croc-pot restaurant.
Anyone got any pictures of the terminal during this period?