LFH, not quite. I was on the jump seat for the first flight in to MPA. The second flight with the VIPs to officially open the airfield was also a T*. Only after that did BA get the contract.
Interestingly FIADGE had not realised that they would not have UHF Comms with the BA aircraft and they had to cobble a plan together at the last moment. I can't remember but is it possible the T* didn't have UHF either at that time.
We were clearer to brief the BA crews on the SHORAD procedures. I said this was unnecessary. All we had to do was give them a comms out procedure with a defined entry corridor and clear of the BDZ. This was accepted.
When the first BA crew came in to ASI Ops there were about 30 of them - I think they brought every man and his dog (no women) in and most filed straight out again. I recall their chief navigation officer there was Peter Royce.