<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by edi-traveller:
Pucci
DId you ever have anything to do with Dan Air? I remember my parents taking us to Menorca in Xmas 1978. We had to fly from Gatwick on a Dan Air 1-11. The memorable thing about the trip was that the pilot was a woman (maybe the ONLY women pilot in the UK at the time).
Her name was Yvonne Sintes (having married a Spanniard).
She flew the plane to Menorca and it stayed there for a week and then she flew it back.
I can still remember the looks of abject terror on the faces of the men when Yvonne came on and said "this is your captain speaking.."
[This message has been edited by edi-traveller (edited 09-26-2003).]</font>
No Dearest, I was with British Caledonian - in those days Dan Dare did not have a very brilliant name. Idid fly with them on a couple of positionings back to LGW in their Elite Class and it was streets ahead of BA.
We did have a female Capt at BCAL and think that it must be the same person. She was a lovely lady and her name eludes me totally (bear in mind that BCAL became BA about 15 years ago).