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Old May 21, 2013, 5:11 pm
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Originally Posted by WHBM

Now, boys, regarding Cubana, surely you knew that when they were operating these connecting hops in Europe, well away from the prying eyes of the Houston headquarters, and fixed up by the CO Gatwick station manager who just happened to be an old airliner buff and pretended in his OAG submissions that it was a 737, Cubana were still operating Ilyushin 62s on them ? Of course, the passengers from Denver, bleary-eyed after an overnight transatlantic crossing, but who would never trust such an aircraft, had to be told it was actually a VC-10 that was standing in that day
Indeed, sir! And I'm glad you understand my take COncerning this matter, so to speak!

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