Heavies at LGW
I worked for Laker from 1972-77 and Christmas 72 for about 10 days there was thick fog all over the UK and near Europe (PAR/AMS, etc.). LGW opened on and off more times than LHR some days and you would be amazed at the line up of B747's from Pan Am, Qantas, SAA, TWA, BA, etc. diverted from LHR and everywhere. We'd just taken delivery of the first 2 DC10's and they were soon busy doing back to back subcharters for Air France ORY-FDF and ORY-PTP.