Mickey:
OK, I'll admit to working with Air UK for a time in 1998 (Customer Svs Agt). Spent most of my time dealing with lost luggage & lost passengers!
Mighty fine airline, sadly about the same time as KLM were coming in to take them over. Not long after I moved on they started axing their ABZ regional services if my memory serves.
Still wish I had stuck it out - but shift work (up for 5am start) wasn't my bag!
Yes been following the goings-on at Dyce for 25yrs or so, & remember the Tridents well. Also the BA TriStars that occasionally visited on the LHR run. They must have been impressive on the ground, as impressive as they were on approach or climb out. Wonder how THEY managed to stop in time!
Could BA fill the TriStars anyone remember?
ps. I do still fly as a pax with my current job, mainly to London, but occasionally European as well.