Originally Posted by
WHBM
Hello from an extraordinarily wet UK and Ireland, having made the flight from one to the other during today, courtesy of course of a BA Embraer from LCY. There are some significant enhancement works going on at the latter, some gates have been lost, and aircraft all squeezed in away from the terminal and served by shuttle buses. For the first time ever at LCY, which is normally a taxy in/out place, we were actually manoeuvred out of a very tight parking spot by aircraft tug. Once we got going there were a lot of clouds to penetrate.
Back to 23 years ago, LCY to CDG twice a day - what about Air France, with an F.28.
42. An excellent guess, sir! Air France was indeed operating flights between London City and Paris Charles de Gaulle back in the fall of 1996.....and these flights were actually operated by Air Inter Europe (IT) on a code sharing basis with five round trip BAe 146 flights on weekdays, some of which offered two class business and coach (C/Y) service with others offering an all-business class cabin.
So we are looking for an independent air carrier that was using its own two letter code on its all-business class service operated twice a day on weekdays in competition with Air France/Air Inter Europe between LCY and CDG at this time.