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Old 7th Dec 2014, 09:44
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East African
Misrair
Humber
JF
Gill
Air Anglia
Royal Swazi
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Old 7th Dec 2014, 10:28
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Transkei Airways.
Bop Air. (Bophutatswana Airlines)
Eagle Air (EGSH and under the wood pile too?)
Air Kilroe (Someone must have got this one?)
Suckling. ("" " ")
Gandalf (Bergamo..schedules to London City in a DO328. among other routes.)
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Old 7th Dec 2014, 15:38
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Contiflug, flew a lovely BAe146-200 (D-ACFA) between London City and Berlin Templehof in the early 90's. Sadly both German airline and Berlin airport no longer with us
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Went to SA with AV8.
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Thanks for the reminder

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Old 11th Dec 2014, 11:24
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Gone but not forgotten.



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Brown air (seriously)
Based Leeds/Bradford.
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Old 11th Dec 2014, 12:21
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Yep,

Brown Air with their Gulfstream 1, chartered it on a number of occasions, then they became Capital Airlines with a small fleet of Sheds, they took Air UK on, head to head, on the Leeds Belfast route whilst taking out full page ads in the Yorkshire Post slating off Air UK claiming that their Sheds were quicker and superior to Air UK's Fokkers ..... Air UK simply reduced their fares on the route to a level that Capital couldn't compete with and the rest is history.

Here's another one:

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Old 11th Dec 2014, 17:47
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What about british independent I flew to liege with them on there 748 to liege to see the Belgium grandprix of92 flew through a great storm out bound from stanstead great experience should have seen the rest of the passengers face also had the privilege of meeting a young Michael Schumacher who had just one the race who kindly signed race day programmes what a day
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I seem to remember flying from BRU - JER in about 1992 on an airline called Scotair, probably on a HS748.
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Old 12th Dec 2014, 14:05
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How about this lot ... Ryanair bought them out to commence Ryanair's UK based operations ... If only we'd known at the time

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And then there were this mob, allegedly the only mob mad enough to put BAC1-11's thru GCI ... I worked with the former chief pilot, it's rumored they wore brown underpants for GCI operations

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Old 12th Dec 2014, 17:25
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EUROFLITE.

Commenced operations with Cessna 404 (Titan) aircraft and ending with Embraer Banderainte E110

Principally operating Luton (LTN). Brussels (BRU). Luton (LTN)

With an 'add on' to / from East Midlands (EMA) at times.

They were an 'off shoot' of Executive Express based at Luton early 1980's
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