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Old 8th Sep 2016, 10:57
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Mooncrest
 
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Terrific aeroplane. Thanks for your input WHBM - I knew you would have something to contribute.

LBA was a relatively late entrant to the Yugoslavia holiday market, given that it didn't have a sufficiently long runway for the Adria/Aviogenex/JAT fleets until 1985. Prior to then, Britannia operated a series of Saturday morning Pula flights using a Transavia 737 during the summer of 1983. Thereafter Yugotours settled in, initially just using JAT but eventually Adria (Tarom 1-11) and Aviogenex joined the fray too.

It was quite exciting to see a 707 at LBA for the first time, as well as unexpected. I'd seen plenty of them at Manchester but it was the first 'plus-size' Boeing to use LBA regularly until the Britannia 767, so it was quite something.
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