Departing for JFK via Shannon

Scot Airways Dornier 328-110 is about to operate a scheduled flight to Edinburgh (Turnhouse) Airport.

There are any number of images of this F50 wearing its later blue colours online, but few in the old scheme inherited from Busy Bee of Norway. A typical LCY ramp scene from the mid-1990s

BA's new baby bus backtracks on the way to the apron after a session of practice steep approaches over the city to runway 09. Premium 32-seat all-business class service from LCY to JFK will began on 29.9.09 as flight number BA001, formerly used by Concorde

Having entered service the previous day, BA's first Embraer 170 lifts off on BA8453 to AMS. 10 minutes earlier, bang on time at 1250, the A318 G-EUNA left on its inaugural flight to JFK (via SNN) as BA001. Fortunately the gathered environmental protesters did not delay operations

Close up of London City Airways fin markings on G-BOAY (left) as G-BOAW taxies on the runway.

Departing for Shannon for refuelling and customs clearance on the schedule to New York

DHC-7 G-BOAY (right) prepares to depart to Schiphol whilst G-BOAW approaches steeply from the west to LCYs short runway.

BA's single Saab 2000, leased from Eastern Airways, on the LCY-IOM service

Despite the attractive colours, this airline lasted only for seven months starting in March 2006. The aircraft was first with PSA as N352PS from March 1985 and joined Titan in 1997 as G-ZAPL after being leased to Debonair. Became EI-PAT with CityJet in AF colours, then TN-AIC, D6-BJH and stored as ZS-SFZ in 2010