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Richard J.[_3_] · September 25th 16, 04:38 PM posted to uk.transport.london

Clive D.W. Feather wrote on 24 Sep 2016 at 23:14 ...
On 22/09/2016 09:30, d wrote:
On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:06:59 +0100
"tim..." wrote:
as a premium service - this was during the era when occasionally they would
fly concord on this route
Eh?? Was the concord maintenance base in manchester or something?

The Shuttle services were advertised as "turn up by X minutes before
departure and you *will* get a seat". Even if they had to fly an extra
plane for the last passenger. And if a Concorde was the only thing spare
at that moment, a Concorde is what got used.

The standard planes for the route seated 100. If passenger 101 turned up
just before the deadline, they would be offered a serious bribe to wait
an hour for the next flight. I was really annoyed to be passenger 100
the one time I used Shuttle (and wasn't in a hurry).

I was passenger 101 once at Manchester, but one passenger failed to
board the first flight, so I was allocated his seat. It was near the
back of the plane, and I had the uncomfortable experience of 99
passengers glaring at me, thinking I was the late ******* who'd kept
them all waiting.

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Richard J.
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