Fantastic thread, the TU-154 has always been one of my favorite aircraft although I've sadly never flown in one.
I have very fond memories of spotting these fantastic aircraft at MAN when I was a kid. I would head up there on saturday mornings during the summer often to be greeted by 2 or 3 Balkan TU-154B's and/or M's lined up on Pier B doing the sun flights to Varna and Bourgas. You could always catch an Aeroflot TU-154M on a sunday morning too back in the early to mid nineties as well as the occasional Tarom TU-154B....... what a noise when they pushed back and started!
Sadly not seen many around (at MAN anyway) these days, all of the Bulgarian holiday flights seem to be done by BH Air A320's or UK charter airlines with Boeing or Airbus equipment.....
But last summer Belavia sent in TU-154M's on most Mondays for their summer flights to Minsk..... hope to see and hear them around again this summer
