Airlines You'd Like to Bring Back
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BOAC - for their effortless and quite unjustified delusions of superiority
BEA - for sublime champagne cocktails
Alitalia - for introducing the world to Ferrero Rochas chocolates
British Eagle - for the triumph of cheerfulness over efficiency
Pan Am - for introducing stereo piped sound on board, and their club sandwiches
Syrian Arab - for providing the finest of desert dates
Air India - for the most heavenly hostesses
Aeroflot - for the best bomber/passenger conversions and biggest hostesses
Channel Express - for operating the Heavenly Dart Herald, long after most everybody else had given it up
Aer Lingus - for making green an acceptable airline colour
South West Air - for the wonderful smoke and flames of the start-up of their DC3
Court Line - for the banshee howl of Halcyon Days
And finally,
Air France - for the Caravelle tail parachute and the sheer ugliness of the Bregeut Deux-Ponts
BEA - for sublime champagne cocktails
Alitalia - for introducing the world to Ferrero Rochas chocolates
British Eagle - for the triumph of cheerfulness over efficiency
Pan Am - for introducing stereo piped sound on board, and their club sandwiches
Syrian Arab - for providing the finest of desert dates
Air India - for the most heavenly hostesses
Aeroflot - for the best bomber/passenger conversions and biggest hostesses
Channel Express - for operating the Heavenly Dart Herald, long after most everybody else had given it up
Aer Lingus - for making green an acceptable airline colour
South West Air - for the wonderful smoke and flames of the start-up of their DC3
Court Line - for the banshee howl of Halcyon Days
And finally,
Air France - for the Caravelle tail parachute and the sheer ugliness of the Bregeut Deux-Ponts
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Piedmont Airlines....full Can of Coca Cola and Packets of Peanuts slingshotted to you.
Blue Team
The 80's Welsh nostalgic Airways Cymru...such lovely and nice memories seeing those mighty 1-11 here at Faro 
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QANTAS, pre the reverse takeover by the TAA muppets aka the mon.-fri. 9-5 mob.
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The 80's Welsh nostalgic Airways Cymru
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Tony Clemo was Chairman and owner of Cardiff City during a difficult period of the club's history. He later commented that the pressure of being at the helm at City during this time was like 'being in prison'. He later retracted this statement after being in prison.
Tony Clemo was not a popular man in Cardiff. To increase his personal popularity, and at great personal risk, Clemo invited supporters to an Open day at Ninian Park. Fans got to wander about on the pitch, meet players and score goals at the Grange End. Clemo walked amongst the crowd greeting and talking to supporters. In all, the Open Day went better than anticipated - Clemo wasn't murdered.
All the same, there was tremendous sadness when Tony 'the people's chairman' Clemo bade his final farewell to Cardiff City in mid 1992. Tony, ever conscious of costs, insisted there should be little or no formal ceremony to mark his departure. His wishes were respected as hired thugs unceremoniously threw his chair, desk and brief case out of his office window into Sloper Road.
Tony Clemo was not a popular man in Cardiff. To increase his personal popularity, and at great personal risk, Clemo invited supporters to an Open day at Ninian Park. Fans got to wander about on the pitch, meet players and score goals at the Grange End. Clemo walked amongst the crowd greeting and talking to supporters. In all, the Open Day went better than anticipated - Clemo wasn't murdered.
All the same, there was tremendous sadness when Tony 'the people's chairman' Clemo bade his final farewell to Cardiff City in mid 1992. Tony, ever conscious of costs, insisted there should be little or no formal ceremony to mark his departure. His wishes were respected as hired thugs unceremoniously threw his chair, desk and brief case out of his office window into Sloper Road.
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From my summer on the ramp at MAN it was Adria not Aviogenex (or JAT) that had the lookers. I am of course assuming that you prefer willowy blondes to hefty brunettes!
Imperial Airways, surely.
BOAC Takes Good Care Of You, used to be the slogan, and they did, I had a personal accident problem once that they helped with, and they got me flying again as soon as possible - as they had continued to pay me during that period it was of course in their interest to do so - B.A. don't give a stuff for their "older" staff, who helped create the airline that they now have the privilege of working for.
Barstewards.
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Originally Posted by briani
BEA, KLM, Aden Airways, SAS, Air Anglia, Air UK, BOAC, Air Djibouti, Gulf Air (in the 60s and 70s. Many happy memories!.
Even BOAC, at least they didn't rip my Staff Travel from my, as B.A. have done.
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Oasis when they first started with md88 had a great flight to Palma with them and back only problem was due to fog at gatwick night before plane diverted to stands stead had to take a coach trip before m25 built but the flight made up for this compliment brandy going out and back also visit to flight deck they where the days
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I went on board a BOAC 707 to clear it at LHR - I was Customs in the days when permission had to be given to disembark. There was an obvious bad atmosphere up the front end and the cabin staff were not happy. The cockpit door opened and the immaculately attired, be-medalled and be-whiskered Captain appeared. With a cursory nod to me but not a word to anybody he departed for his personal transport. Immediately the atmosphere lightened and joviality returned. It turned out the Captain, renowned for his arrogance, had been encouraged by management to come out of the cockpit and pass some time with at least the first-class pax. His response had been to produce s tin-whistle, play several notes, and return to the cockpit. The cabin-crew were not impressed. I made a point of looking out for him and would have paid particular attention to his crew-declaration, but I never saw him again. Apart from that I found BOAC exemplary in all respects.
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Air UK Wonderful airline especially to staff travelers.
I would travel from SW London all the way up to Stansted via Tottenham Hale to catch the Stansted SkyTrain for an 0700 departure for a day out in France, Germany, Holland, Belgium etc rather than face LHR.
I would travel from SW London all the way up to Stansted via Tottenham Hale to catch the Stansted SkyTrain for an 0700 departure for a day out in France, Germany, Holland, Belgium etc rather than face LHR.