Originally Posted by
lotus1
With regards to rear facing seats I remember Dan air had a one eleven with rear facing seats my mates and I came back from Spain must have been around 87 and we was given these seats it was great we had good leg room
As well known, rear-facing seats were an "RAF thing", and this extended to their troop charters where they used civilian charter operators - if the aircraft was so capable. The One-Elevens had been so used back to British United days. I used to think it would be a substantial task to reconfigure, but it was apparently it just required a few hours, two engineers, and one box of spanners. They were generally reconfigured back prior to their next mainstream airline use, but if time was short they were not. There used to be a PPRuNe poster who wrote about this being done outside their office during a night shift layover at Gatwick.
The Britannia 737s which the RAF moved on to were not so capable.