British Midland, BMA, BMI.

[rog747]

Originally Posted by The AvgasDinosaur

When Michael Bishop later Sir addressed a meeting of the Manchester Branch of Air Britain many moons ago he apologised for being late, he’d been busy he explained He had bought Philippine Airlines Dc-10 fleet and then sold them on at a handsome profit, though he claimed the German Viscount purchase was his best piece of business.
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David

Thanks never knew that about the PAL DC-10's...
We did buy some German Viscounts (4 I think) and of course the greatest£deal was from SAA for all 7, including all the spares and the Sim for less than he was going to pay for just one VC8.
He also bought the 2 SAA 707-344A's (coal burners) flew them to EMA and sold them on.

[Monkeytennis12345]

Originally Posted by rog747

Thanks never knew that about the PAL DC-10's...
We did buy some German Viscounts (4 I think) and of course the greatest£deal was from SAA for all 7, including all the spares and the Sim for less than he was going to pay for just one VC8.
He also bought the 2 SAA 707-344A's (coal burners) flew them to EMA and sold them on.

I think the best bit of 'German' business that Bishop did was forcing LH to buy out BD....and the rest is history, sadly.

[Airbanda]

Originally Posted by rog747

Back in the 60's and 70's the Dutch Bulb field charter flights were the iconic shoulder season ''bread and butter'' for many charter airlines including BMA - Rotterdam saw loads of UK props/prop jets and jets either on day trips or 2-3 day tours.- flights operated from all over the UK - Clarksons were a huge operator for these amongst others.

BMA Canadair Argonauts flew from LBA for a while shortly after R/W 15/33 opened, either on a GLA schedule (bus stop service from EMA) or charters. Think there's a picture somewhere of one just getting airborne off 33 with Plane Trees Hill in background.

My Mother and a friend went on a couple of bulb field trips. IIRC one was supposed to be from LBA but was consolidated with a MAN departure and the flew from Ringway on a Bristol Britannia.