Originally Posted by
rog747
Channel AW got 139 in their One E's but STN or Berlin to LPA must have been a struggle
Channel got very little use from their Tridents, which must have lost them a lot of money. Having ordered five, they only took delivery of two, the others having to be sold off cheaply by Hawker Siddeley as standing stock to BKS and Air Ceylon. The only mainstream contract they got was one aircraft based at Berlin in summer only. HS were sufficiently unimpressed with Channel that it was "cash with order" for spares, and the second aircraft spent at least one summer season standing at Stansted being robbed for parts to keep the Berlin one going. Apart from this use, they just picked up odd subcharters and the like around the place, and for the large Lyons Tours contract they got, which the Tridents had originally been ordered for, they bought the old Olympic Airways Comet 4B fleet, at scrap prices, instead.