thanks very much...
re the bks/northeast charters, well we did actually have a proper charter
dept at LHR so although the flights were at weekends using the tridents
it was an intensive IT programme for Swans but i understand what you mean...see page 4 of this re bks and swans tours
http://website.lineone.net/~biggles2...NewsSheet5.pdf
my first ever flight was an Eagle Britannia bounteous from LAP to BCN 1964 with the seats facing backwards!
also went to rimini in 1967 and we had a trooping a/c then too.
re seatback catering, oh yes lol, an ''interesting feature'' especially when the outbound pax ate the inbound pax's grub too lol.
the meal flaps had locks but they often never got locked.
the grub in those plastic boxes we thought was basic back then but compared to today's fare it was gorgeous.
the wardair 727 sub charter was to dubrovnik not corfu in summer 1972.
very often wardair would lay-over their a/c for a day or 2 at LGW so i guess it was on the ad-hoc rota for ''thunderbird'' duties...
119 pax i recall loads of legroom and big comfy seats and nice girls.
we had the biggest TS ever coming home up over yugoslavia and italy over the mountains and never seen one like it since.
the turbulence was structure bending lol
their one and only 727 cf-fun ? sadly met an untimely demise
somewhere in south america i think after they sold it.
Air-Britain : Boeing 727-11