Airlines You'd Like to Bring Back

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Bring Em Back

I would love to see (and hear) Spantax bring their Coronados into EGHH again. Lots of black smoke and noise and a good chance of a burst tyre or two as well.

For flights on defunct airlines I flew in a Brittania from Tunisia on one of British Eagle's last flights. The passengers who came out on our aircraft were standed there.

[surely not]

Well first by a long way is British Caledonian. Great service, great colour scheme, great uniform for the girls and great girls. First UK airline with a 3 class service I think?

Then British Eagle also get an honourable mention.

Air Europe scheduled service was really good, as was Dan-Air.

JFA from Portsmouth to Jersey with Twin Pioneers was an experience never to be repeated!!

Netherlines had some really sexy female cabin crew on their J31's

BWA was a good airline with great camaraderie and adapted brilliantly to all the differing types of flying they did.

[aerobelly]

Laker in the late 1970's: I could do a day's work near NYC, and then take my own bottle of wine aboard which they'd open FOC. The scrum at Gatwick a week later to get back wasn't so great though. And too early for drinking ...

Suckling in the mid 1990's: the Cambridge end would accept a phone report of deteriorating weather from Amsterdam dockland and say "Get to Schipol as fast as you can and we'll get you back." They did too.

It was /so/ nice to be greated by name by Suckling's desk staff in Cambridge at Oh-dark-50 on Monday morning for the flight out as I arrived 10 minutes before boarding.


And whoever flew Viscounts from Wick to Glasgow via Inverness in 1969. My first ever flight. In brilliantly clear sky, no higher than 2000 AGL all the way, and those huge Viscount windows!


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[bluefishbeagle]

Hooters Air

I second that I always looked forward to turbulance when flying Hooters.

[Jean-Lill]

Bring back the Bristol Freighter, that was the first aircraft I was employed on as a flight attendant for 6 months, which was just before they were withdrawn from car air ferry use.

Can still remember the noise on take-off.

I continued to fly for another 35 years with another airline after that.

[T-21]

People Express Boeing747
Intra Airways DC-3
Dan-Air Comet 4,BAC 1-11,Boeing 727
Britannia Boeing 737
Orion Boeing 737
Air Europe Boeing 757

[bmibaby319]

XL!

Would increase UK Air Traffic!!

[merlinxx]

ACE Frighteners I just love to to get down & dirty

Jean-Lill just when the lower clasp on the nose came unlatched @ 200ft into Le Touquet

[The SSK]

Jean-Lill Didn't the Bristol Freighter have a ladder for flight deck access? I knew someone who'd been a flight attendant on them, told me stories of inviting pretty girls in skirts to visit the flight deck while he stood underneath.

[merlinxx]

SSK

They were known as the "Lydd Lechers"

[Tmbstory]

The Airlines you would like to bring back.

I thiught that the upstairs first class lounge in the KLM 747 on the South East Asian runs in the 1970's was about as good as you could get.


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[superspotter]

I suppose what everyone reminisces about here really is the age when flying was an adventure, something to be relished pre-RYR days etc.....
I admit to not reading all the posts on this thread but two names that caught my eye encited me into this riposte
KLM.
I remember as a 15 year old flying on one of their DC-10's from AMS-NBO and receiving an elegant card proclaiming the fact that I had crossed the equator with KLM Nice little touches like that disappeared many many moons ago

UTA.
This memory was a little ruder so I apologise in advance....
03rd January 1977, UTA DC-8 F-BOLM Lusaka-CDG, just turned 15yo, acne challenged and full of these new hormone thingies. I took my window seat and this thing of beauty i.e. the stewardess (that's what they were called back then) wearing this figure hugging light blue ribbed type jumper, kindly offered to stow my bag in the overhead locker. Now, it may have been the strategically placed aircon vents had something to do with it but as she proceeded to push home the offending bag into the overhead locker with both arms raised, I was subjected to this wonderous sight of a pair of the most exquisite female attachments I was ever to behold, I literally could have hung my coat on the proffered extensions there and then
One of those few memories ever to make one huge impact in one's life

[brakedwell]

One of those few memories ever to make one huge impact in one's life

Did it have any impact on the acne superspotter?

[superspotter]

Only to make it more of a deep red hue than it already was

[SCANDIC]

Air Scandic

If any ex management of Air Scandic are reading on here i would love to see them make a comeback with some new aircraft or rebranded, i flew with them amny times and they were fantastic the A300's had loads of leg room. Please come back Air Scandic.

[SCANDIC]

Flyjet

I would also like to see Flyjet make a return to our skies, i think that they could of done a great job if they had of found some more planes to replace the 757's.

[siftydog]

Ryanair

Ohh, Ryanair.

No, not that bunch of wallet lifting thieves you encounter in this day and age - but the Ryan of 12 years ago.
London -Prestwick, booked on phone, no hidden fees, late at airport, missed check in, took suitcase straight to gate and gave to dispatcher at rear cargo compartment!, jump seat no questions. Basic service, but what a personal delight.

Or was it like that with everything before the the madness started?

edited due appalling grammar

[SCANDIC]

Could there ever be a chance that Air Scandic could start up again either with a new name or the same one and with a new livery.

[brakedwell]

Air Europe
Air Norway
BUA
BCAL
BCAL Helicopters
BIA
BOAC
British Eagle
British Airtours
Dan air
Laker
Air Florida
Nigerian Airways
East African Airways
Transamerica
Pacific Western Airways

[gooneydog]

Anyone mentioned Highland Express yet ? Did a Newark round trip on them from PIK Good while they lasted !