VIRGINwhen it was and only had six a/c

Add to BKS,Northeast(Tridents & Viscounts)
And BKS/Cambrian British Air Services.

Nostalgia isn't wot it used to be!!:ok:

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And here is a nice photo from Capital airlines and a BA BAC 1-11 in the background!

How about a couple of cargo airlines:

Air Bridge Carriers - Argosy, Vanguard, Viscount
Midland Air Cargo - Bristol Freighter

Air Wales from the 1980's who flew 737's & 1-11's
European - again 1-11's
& British Midland (pre BMI) when it really did offer the "Diamond Service"!

Orion Airlines definatley. My first ever flight was onboard an Aviogenex Tu134. The service was non existent and it was very uncomfy. The next year I flew with Orion and it was worlds apart. The cooked breakfast they served was the nicest hot food I have ever had onboard an aircraft.

Steve

Manx Airlines..in the days of the sovereign service down to LHR with boiled sweets for landing :cool:

Bring back AirUK !!
 

I definitely wanna see AirUK back again. Was on one of their first flights ZRH - STN, 2 cabin crew, 1 passenger. Boy that was a party !! Are you girls still out there, Jill and Caryn ? :O

btw was as well the only check-in where they told me I was overweight when - clearly - it was the luggage, not me...

Waiting at the gate for above flight was bizzarre too. I've never been the only bloke at a gate in my life (...for a flight that really departed from that gate !!) !

CityFlyer Express (the original) :ok:

Birmingham Executive Airways
 

Those 12 seater J31's with a full meal service served course by course right up to the liqueurs served with coffee from a proper pot.

its taken this long before i mmention Air 2000. god they were the beez neez in their day. and the hosties, they were all just lovely - jane partlin where are you now - beautiful blonde yorkshire girl from todmorden. memories........

Pan Am...what a history, with names like Charles Lindberg and Juan Tripp.
Then there was Eastern and Eddie Rickenbacker. Both great early pilots and airlines. Sadly history wasn't enough..."your only as good as tomorrows successes...not yesterdays".

Those oh so seventies coloured Viscounts of Alidair especially the 700s with the big oval doors and cockpit window bars

Sunday evenings at Stansted with SAS DC8s and 9s, Conair 720s, Maersk etc.

Memories of the Scandinavian pronounciation of Sunjet

Transmeridian ( and briefly BAF- could that ever have worked!) CL 44s swinging their tails- Kilo Kilo and Victor Foxtrot callsigns

Sudflug DC7s at Luton on a Sunday afternoon

Air Wales, Great To Know Wales Had Their Own Airline, Nice To See The Dragon On The Aircraft.

Charter Airline - Britannia Airways (Before Thomsonfly), Great Service That Realy Made The Flight Part Of The Holiday And It Was Always Nice Having Lady Britannia Sat On The Rear Of The Aircraft :)

Gower

VIRGIN SUN :ok:

Eurodirect

Humberside's biggest ever scheduled supporter!

Mike

Orion Airways, British Caledonian, Caledonian and Braniff.

VIRGIN when it had only THREE Aircraft!!!!!!!!!

European, obviously. Didn't appreciate how much fun it was before it finally fell over.
DanAir too of course. Bless them for letting me play with god's own aeroplane.
In fact...most of the airlines I've worked for...
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British Airways in about the 1999-2001 timeframe. Service standards and amount of premium traffic was just about the right balance. BA even reconfigured a few 747s with 100 J seats after Concorde was grounded, such was the demand.