Sad news and I hope there's money to pay off the employees.
After the Viscount, BWA dispensed with my services. It was a sad day and I miss greatly all the people I worked with during my time there. I still live locally and a great many people in the community will be effected.
In my career since, I have met a great many people who also started off at BAF, both pilots and engineers. Many of the local old folk remember with glee the adventures of the Keagan days, indeed as a boy at school you could hear the distinctive high pitch of the Rolls-Royce Darts as the Viscounts & Heralds dropped in on short finals for zero-six . In those juvenile times the sight of the planes overhead dropped the seeds of an aviation career into my soul. RIP
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I drove past the office earlier and observed boxes of files being removed. So I guess no 11th hour deal.
It was difficult to see how the present business could ever work and the chairman actually told me five years ago that he would never lease a modern jet due to costs! The current fleet did seem to be a little over-the-top for last minute ad-hoc charter. Compared the the ex Dan-air 1-11's, which was the deal of the century. I think they should have stuck to the night freight as Bread and Butter work and left the Pax stuff as the cream on top. How many times have we seen the lure of the shiny jets to be the kiss-of-death to these small-medium operators?
A final question. How are pensions affected by the sad news of the company's closure?
[ 14 December 2001: Message edited by: Billy the Kid ]