Humberside Nostalgia

[Silvercity]

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I remember Air Anglia using DC3s too when they first started operations into LBA.

When i worked in travel in London in the 80s an airline began flying Heathrow- Norwich using a DC3. They were called Eastern Airways , nothing to do with the current one. However to use a DC3 then seemed a very old aircraft. There was another DC3 operator which went Heathrow Carlisle Dundee, but the name escapes me !

Just remembered I think it was Euroair

 

[Seasider]

The Eastern A/W that operated HUY - NWI - LHR is the same Eastern A/W that is operating today

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Summer 2006 Holiday Guide

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This isn't half a flash back to the days of traditional change over days in resorts. Wednesday is Rhodes/Cyprus day clearly.

 

[Seasider]

What happened to all those flights? Oh, DSA opened, will they get some of them back?

 

[pug]

What happened to all those flights? Oh, DSA opened, will they get some of them back?

Doubt it. After DSA opened, HUY finally abandoned its application for Class D, lost a fair chunk of its core passenger business due to consolidation in the market and the largest operator decamping to DSA. Then MAG offloaded it, initially to Eastern Group who offloaded the whole lot to Bristow who subsequently offloaded the airline back to Richard Lake. Seems there is no intention to pick up any business on the back of this, or spend the necessary capital on infrastructure to make it attractive. Could be far wrong, but I don’t even know if they have anyone tasked with attracting new business any more!

Things have changed on site in recent years. Two hotels, the BAe Systems academy and an improved access road from A18… So it would make sense to maximise the facility - to me anyway… Who knows,