Originally Posted by
WHBM
It's easy to start with a weather report for London.
Rain. Rain. More rain.
Some poor souls approaching London City a couple of hours ago could be seen doing a go-around, the strobes just visible out of the bottom of the cloud, right as I was watching from the window a big thunderstorm in progress.......
Our rain has ceased here and our temperatures are now beginning the Big Polar Plunge.....
1) Yes sir, it was Cubana (CU) with Britannia service into Lima, Peru.....and just several years later in 1975, Cubana was operating Ilyushin Il-18 turboprop service nonstop between Havana (HAV) and Mexico City (MEX) twice a week.
4) Eastern is correct although the equipment and the routings were just a bit different:
EA 172: MIA-BAL-YOW-YUL
Op: Daily
Equip: B727-200
Note: no local traffic permitted YOW-YUL
EA 173: LGA-YUL-YOW-BAL-MIA
Op: Daily
Equip: B727-200
Note: no local traffic permitted YUL-YOW