What foreign carriers operated into Luton in years gone by?
After a little perusal of my old logbooks and my memory chips I can come up with the following from 1967-1972. Included are some of the non-based UK operators as well.
No doubt not exhaustive, not guaranteed 100% accurate but here goes:-
Balair DC-6 1967-1970 summer only, early hours of Saturday
Adria DC-6 summer 1967 Sunday lunchtime
DC-9-32 summer 1971 Saturday
Condor Viscount summer 1967 Friday evening
Sudflug DC-7C mid July-mid Sept 1967, Sunday evening, Monday morning
Bavaria 1-11 400 July-August 1968, short series Monday evening, Tuesday morning
Channel A/Ws Viscount/HS748 Scottish Flyer service twice daily Jan-Oct 1969 Trident 1E summer 1969, Palma twice on Sunday
Skyways Coach Air HS748 Ostend scheduled service, weekends only, summer 1970
Bulair Ilyushin 18 summer 1969, June-September, Saturday mornings, fortnightly
Germanair 1-11 500 August-September 1970, Tuesday morning and evening
D-AMIE 180870
Aer Turas DC-4/DC-7/B170 regular newspaper flight Saturday late evening from 1970 plus ad-hoc charters, mainly horses
Paninternational 1-11 500 1st Nov-6th Dec 1970, Sunday, day stop
Aviaco Caravelle 10 (Iberia)summer 1971, Palma Wednesday evening, fortnightly
Conair DC-7B end March-October 1971, Friday afternoon then late Saturday
Tarom Ilyushin 18 30th May-3rd October 1971, Constanta, Sunday afternoon, also 1972 Sunday evening
Donaldson Britannia 300 summer 1971, Sunday
Skyways International HS748 Ostend scheduled service, weekends only, summer 1971, Beauvais charters
Phoenix Airways (Swiss) 1-11 500 Oct-Nov 1971 Saturday morning
Rousseau Aviation DC-3, HS748 April-May 1972, Saturday
Air Spain DC-8-21 from April 1972
Any additions/corrections welcome. If anyone is interested in later years please send a PM or post and I will work on it.
Last edited by cj241101; 27th Mar 2023 at 08:17.
Reason: addition