Business Archives - Phil Andrews

All Aboard the Laker Skytrain – (almost) the World’s First Low-Cost Airline

October 8, 2021January 24, 2023Phil Andrews2 Comments

As a teenage plane spotter in the 1970s I was always intrigued by the Icelandic airline Loftleidir (or Loftleiðir to the natives), but I never really knew much about it beyond the fact that amongst my peers it was considered an impressive “cop”. In actual fact, it was the world’s first budget airline. Long before […]

It’s a Beautiful Noise – 1976, the Year of Concorde

September 30, 2019November 6, 2023Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

I first saw Concorde fly over my home in 1970. I was eight years of age, and the Anglo-French supersonic jetliner was landing at London’s Heathrow airport, under the flightpath of whose Runway 28-Left my Isleworth home was located. My late father, who saw it too, was unconvinced. He told me it was a Vulcan […]