Quote from WHBM:
"...Banjul, a market which seems to have come and gone."
Yes, it was quiet in the 1960s and early 70s, but gradually picked up. In BCAL, as you well know, our BAC 1-11 West African coastal service passed through from Las Palmas en-route Freetown, etc., once or twice a week (?). Then I think the traffic generated by the marsh-bird life and the opening of beach hotels encouraged a direct service, initially with the B707, around the end of the decade. (The service went on to Freetown and Roberts.) The 707 service was superseded by the A310 for a couple of years in the mid-1980s (very popular slip with us crews..); then the DC10. Our boss, Adam Thomson, even played golf with the Gambian president. I think one or two IT operators started dedicated flights. Then there was a coup, and that presumably put the kibosh on things for a couple of years until the 1990s. Who flies there from Europe now?