Originally Posted by
PUCCI GALORE
Those of us who flew for BCAL feel the same, We were taken over by BA and we went on flying them when we were BA. Ours were the Long Range as we used them a lot on Nigeria and South America. Unlike American we did not have the underfloor galleys as they wanted a maximum of space for cargo. I flew Americans to HNL many times. I remember that HNL at one time had a special configuration that was a very small cabin - it looked like a goldfish bowl!
My first long haul flight was on a BA DC-10 from JFK to LGW, connecting to GVA on a 737-200. It was late June 1993. I flew home that July from LHR to JFK on a 747-200 and I recall thinking that the DC-10 was far more comfortable in World Traveller.
That return 747 flight, incidentally, was captained by Stanley Stewart, a BA 747 pilot and author who wrote "Emergency, Crisis in the Cockpit" and both versions of "Flying the Big Jets". He was impressed that I knew his books (back then, in-flight cockpit visits were allowed).