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You can thumb through old Jersey Airlines, BUA and B Cal timetables here [...] :
Airline Timetable Images - List of Complete Timetables
Astonishing,
WHBM. A trip down memory lane (not just for the BUA content...). Thanks!
Straying briefly off-topic, I reckon the second BUA livery was one of the most flattering ever to grace the VC10, as shown on the timetable cover. The air-hostesses' uniform wasn't bad either, particularly the hat!
http://www.timetableimages.com/ttima...4/br684-01.jpg
The same timetable (Summer 1968) shows on
page 30 that around Easter on days 1/3/5/7 there was an evening Viscount service using a JY (BUA-CI) flight number from EXT to SOU, that connected with another JY Viscount service (probably on the same a/c) to GLA. The aircraft plot seems quite complex, but it appears that on Sundays the same a/c may have previously operated JER>EXT, with a 30-minute turnround at EXT. The a/c seems to N/S GLA, returning to JER the following day. The timetable shows that pax for EDI are offered a 40-minute connection to a BEA Viscount service, presumably operated by BEA? On days 1/3/5, a JER>SOU (direct) service is available on a Dart Herald (page 29), which connects with the Viscount departure.
In the mid-summer of 1968, according to the timetable, the EXT>SOU>GLA rotation (and GLA>EDI) becomes daily. The feed to EXT by Viscount is from JER on days 2/4/7, but from GCI on days 1/3/5, there being nothing on Saturdays. Pax from JER on days 1/3/5 could, however, fly JER>SOU (direct) on a JY Dart-Herald service to connect with the Viscount departure to GLA.
Those were the days for domestics... But that summer, faced with the prospect of having to uproot from their low-tax paradise to the mainland, the JY (BUA-CI) pilots went on strike at Jersey, almost to a man. The response of the parent group's new MD, Alan Bristow, was to close the airline down and sack all the strikers. BUIA (later BIA) was formed in November from the remnants of BUA (CI), BUA (Manx) and Morton Air Services, and was based at LGW, SOU and BLK (Blackpool). JER ceased to be a base, as did IOM. The Viscounts were not included. BUA itself - preferred by HMG as the nucleus of a new "second-force," independent flag-carrier - was sold to Adam Thomson's Caledonian Airways at the end of 1970. Caledonian-BUA was soon renamed BCAL (British Caledonian).