Originally Posted by
Mooncrest
I thought it was an Aer Lingus 1-11 that did the first jet job from LBA ?
Aer Lingus only had four One Elevens, built in 1966 (which they used for decades and certainly got their money's worth out of them). They were not used on UK routes for a long time, but on Continental European routes. They had licences on many of these to stop at Manchester to help build up the loads to Frankfurt, Amsterdam, etc, one result of this being that Manchester saw Aer Lingus jets well before Heathrow did.
The main likelihood of them coming through Leeds in the 1960s therefore would be a Manchester diversion. Although I don't have the schedules for the period, even if they did one or two fill-in timetabled tasks Leeds would have been one of the least likely points on their network. The British Midland One Eleven I referred to at Leeds was however on a regular schedule.
Sorry for this thread creep on the ATC forum, so while I am here thanks to all you guys and girls at weekends for help from a very part-time flyer.