Way back when I was a student in Manchester, BEA briefly operated a Sunday Blackpool-Palma rotation with a One-Eleven positioning up from MAN in the morning and back in the evening. They had the idea to sell the positioning legs for £4 return, giving the punters a nice day out by the seaside.
The time a bunch of us did the trip, the flight was full, mostly with people who probably hadn’t flown before – which was the purpose of the exercise, I guess. On the return into MAN we were thrown all around the sky, and I imagined the pilot stirring the stick a bit to give us a bit of an experience. But as we got closer, it got a hell of a lot bumpier, and there was a lot of concern in the cabin. When we finally made it down, the Captain told us (in a somewhat shaky voice) that we had been right on the crosswind limit, any more and we would have been heading for Birmingham.