Originally Posted by
cs57
Back to the game, indeed!
POS air service (1983)
KLM D10 (AMS and Panama)
Viasa D98 (CCS)
BWIA D9S Georgetown and London
ALM D98 Georgetown
Guyana Airways 707/HS7
BA 747 LHR
Cruzeiro 73S Manaus
LAV from 2 points in Venezuela.
An excellent response as usual from
cs57!
Here is the information I have concerning passenger air service into Port of Spain, Trinidad (POS) in July of 1983:
1) ALM Antillean Airlines - MD-80 (aka D98)
2) British Airways - B747-100
3) British West Indian Airways (BWIA) International -
L-1011 and DC-9-50 (and I don't think the D9S was used by Bee-Wee for service to LHR!)
4) Cruzeiro - B737-200
5) Guyana Airways - B707 and HS-748
6) KLM Royal Dutch Airlines - DC-10
7) Linea Aeropostal (LAV) - DC-9-30
8) VIASA - MD-80 (aka D98)
BTW, in later years, I flew a number of times nonstop IAH-POS r/t on board Continental B737-800 aircraft, usually in the front cabin as I was a CO Platinum Elite at the time. Depending on the winds aloft which affected the actual route at times, this was a scenic 5+ hour flight from POS to IAH as the aircraft would depart west along the coast of Venezuela, fly over the Dutch ABC islands as well as the western tip of Jamaica, head over the Cayman Channel with Grand Cayman Island on the left and the islands of Cayman Brac & Little Cayman on the right, cross over the western tip of Cuba and then on over the Gulf of Mexico to IAH......