Originally Posted by
Dash8driver1312
Cat 3 ILS conditions, autoland. First time you do it, it's interesting, but autoland first came in with the Trident decades ago.
I know being "first" can have many interpretations, but commonly accepted that Sud Caravelles operated by Air Inter in France, who were plagued by fog conditions at multiple points on their network, more so than in Britain, were the pioneers. First auto landing in development by a Caravelle was 29 September 1962, first commercial Cat 2 was 25 September 1964, first commercial Cat 3 was 2 March 1967, first commercial landing in real Cat 3 visibility 9 January 1969. All by Caravelles on the Paris-Lyon route, their number one domestic trunk at the time (business later mostly lost to the TGV train). All before the Trident I understand.