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So we can’t get away right now but can look back to the pre TUI/Jet2 duopoly when a myriad of tour operators flew to many long gone destinations.
Black Sea Holidays Constanta with Tarom and Varna with Balkan Bulgarian
Brighter Holidays tied to AT Mays who flew from Glasgow with Dan Air and , Rimini being a popular destination.
Blue Sky used BCal 1-11s to Palma and Ibiza amongst others
Clarksons with colourful Court Line 1-11s to Alicante, Palma, Rome and Munich
Ellerman Sunflight using Britannia and Dan Air. Funchal,and a one season wonder to Lamezia Terme were amongst its offerings.
Global Air Tours used British Midland 1-11s to Venice amongst other flights with Dan Air London plus Air Spain to Tenerife
Horizon Holidays the Rolls Royce of packages: BCal 1-11s to Alghero, Genoa, Pisa, as well as Corfu
Inghams/ Tyrolean Travel Munich with Swans plus Balair to Zurich, BCal to Bergen
Mercury Air Holidays using Donaldson 707s to Tunis as well as Alicante, Barcelona, Palma and Rimini
Sovscot initally PIK but later GLA with Aeroflot to Moscow and Leningrad
Swans Tours Munich on a Bavaria Flug 1-11
Thomson Skytours with the late, great Britannia Airways to Athens, Lisbon, Palermo amongst the usual Costas etc
Transcontinental to Warsaw/Krakow with LOT TU134s
Volta Dixon those Aviaco DC8s to Palma
Yugotours Inex Adria and JAT including Ljubljana, Pula, Dubrovnik
Just a soupcon of what we had way back in the early 70s. Does anyone else have any memories of these days on the terrace at GLA?

Aviogenex TU134s late Friday nights for one
SAM Caravelles late Friday nights too - were always late!!!

jetblue497 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 2:08 pm Aviogenex TU134s late Friday nights for one
SAM Caravelles late Friday nights too - were always late!!!

That must have been before I moved to Linwood. I remember the SAM Caravelles but they were fortnightly Sunday afternoon departures. They used to fly for Citalia.

atuk wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:26 pm

jetblue497 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 2:08 pm Aviogenex TU134s late Friday nights for one
SAM Caravelles late Friday nights too - were always late!!!

That must have been before I moved to Linwood. I remember the SAM Caravelles but they were fortnightly Sunday afternoon departures. They used to fly for Citalia.

I think the carrots took over from the DC6s sometime in 1970 - those were the always late ones. The Sunday flight rings a distant bell and I think they only lasted to 1971. Was Rimini wasn't it? And a UK carrier took over in 72? Really stretching the old memory cells here.

jetblue497 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:06 pm [quote=atuk post_id=2931 time=<a href="tel:1610897181">1610897181</a> user_id=75]
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Aviogenex TU134s late Friday nights for one
SAM Caravelles late Friday nights too - were always late!!!

That must have been before I moved to Linwood. I remember the SAM Caravelles but they were fortnightly Sunday afternoon departures. They used to fly for Citalia.
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I think the carrots took over from the DC6s sometime in 1970 - those were the always late ones. The Sunday flight rings a distant bell and I think they only lasted to 1971. Was Rimini wasn't it? And a UK carrier took over in 72? Really stretching the old memory cells here.
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Rimini yes on Sundays Summer73. An Aeropa 707 took over the route for S74.

The way things are right now it’s worse than back then and atm only God knows what e future may hold.