The service was terminated by the then Tory government giving in to a few noise objectors along the route. ( A few Tory marginal seats at that time...........think the chief tw#t involved was Nicolas Ridley)
Funny thing was that the noise objectors still used to phone in and complain about the noise months after the flights were terminated.................perhas they could not distinguish between a civilian S61 and military Chinooks .
Anyway it was all part of the plot to drive BCAL down , and into the clutches of the just privatised (and consequently cash rich) BA.
