Originally Posted by
LTNman
Didn't Britannia used to operate a 767 service from Ltn to Australia? If they did was it a charter service?
Yes. I remember disembarking from an Alitalia 747 at Kingsford-Smith just before Christmas 1995. We'd been very lucky and had been given given a first-class upgrade from Bangkok so we were feeling very pleased with ourselves, cool, nice and refreshed. On the next stand was a Britannia 767 off-loading. It was packed. They'd come out directly from the U.K. in 26 hours with only a refuel in the Gulf. Their pax followed us through the terminal. They were utterly, totally shattered, like zombies, poor little kids crying, wives and girl-friends wailing, they looked like walking wounded coming out of a war zone, but they said it had been a good flight. We didn't comment. I think it was a regular charter.