Watch full video on YouTube
You may also like
Caribbean weather system to strengthen
she broke up because i was poor, now my first system...
How to Apply for Erasmus Mundus Scholarship 2025 For...
Vacation #travel #flightlife #automobile #flight...
3 BEST Portable Air Tire Inflators
MSC Food: Good, Bad, and Ugly of Included Dining
Travel 🧭 #vacation #automobile #flightlife #travel...
TIGARI Passport Holder for Travel, Rfid Passport Cover...
USC Airbus A340-600 Landing & Take Off Amsterdam...
Video Presentation — Girl Gets Ring System
About the author
Ruairidh MacVeigh
-
Everytime I see one of these videos, the lesson is always dont invest in Britain when condition Labour = exists.
-
Free Market my foot
-
I flew Laker to NY and LA in the late 70s early 80s.
All tickets were one way (not popular with US immigration).
To maximise aircraft capacity a ticket could only be bought for the next available non booked out flight, so regular phone calls to book or check for your preferred day had to be made.
He done a great job to open up these otherwise unaffordable destinations to the masses. -
It was what British Airways and American Airlines tried to do to Virgin Atlantic–a tactic that worked against Laker Airways–that raised the ire of European regulators. The result was the phase out of the Bermuda II Agreement that was used to strangle Laker and nearly did so to Virgin.
-
One of the first foreign holidays I had as a young boy was to Majorca in 1971 or 2, and we flew on a Donaldson 707 from Gatwick Airport. I also flew in 1973 or 1974 can't quite remember on a Laker DC10 when I was taken to the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget.
-
Governments… a necessary evil, or just evil?
-
Thank you so much for compiling and showing this video. I always admired Freddie Laker, he was a very astute man. If you ever want a follow up to this, Highland express ran by a Mr Randolph Fields would make very interesting viewing as well.
-
Another great interesting video!! I still find Low Cost and Flying such an oxymoron! Planes are so expensive to operate and maintain that razor thin margins mean certain doom if they can't keep planes almost 100% full year round!
-
Gosh I had no idea how hard he fought – not least aga8nst the government!!
-
Thank you Ruaridh for this great video. I had always wanted to know the history of Freddie Laker and I have to admire how much of a maverick he had to become in order to make a buck and also make flying affordable to most of us. His Knighthood was well deserved. RIP Sir Freddie Alfred Laker (1922 – 2006)
-
I remember flying over Gatwick (with ATC clearance of course) in a Cessna 172 from nearby Biggin Hill and seeing the sad aftermath of the Laker collapse below. Laker planes were crammed into at huddle to make them occupy as little space as possible. A tangible and collective indignation at Laker's unfair treatment pervaded our tiny cockpit.
-
Governments – never there to protect the interest of civilians. Only there to protect the interests of the rich and powerful. This will never change, I'm afraid.
-
The plane seen landing at 3:04 is a Junkers 90, a prewar German airliner that saw very little post-war service (and none with British operators).
-
Being wrong with capital trumped being right without capital.
Laker was a buccaneer who saw giving people what they could afford as an opportunity. Laker's hostesses were the best dressed too! -
The major influence to Richard Branson and the formation of the Virgin Airline.
-
Free Market my foot
-
I thick in richard branson's autobiography, IIRC, it said that Laker were relying on an operating profit of 40pence per seat. Also, you didn't mention that such was the public's good feeling towards Freddie Laker that when they went bust the public donated about £1m through collecting tins to help keep him going, a very unusual occurrence
-
Thank you Rory dear.
Aunt Barbara adores you! -
Great topic but the dialogue is so monotonous (AI generated??)
-
Apparently, the first two DC-10s acquired by Laker Airways were part of a group of 5 meant to go to Mitsui, who were planning to lease them to All Nippon Airlines.
But when ANA ultimately chose the TriStar over the DC-10, McDonnell Douglas then had to find new customers for these 5 DC-10-10s. Two went to Laker, the other three went to Turkish Airlines.
One of the three DC-10s sold to Turkish Airlines would later crash in 1974 while flying Flight 981.
-
Great video, shame about the dropping voice over audio every few words
-
Note flyers in their Sunday best. Now on the cheap airlines it your ghetto best.
-
6:26 – Is this a Conway-equipped 707?
-
I flew from New York to London on Laker Skytrain's DC10 in 1981. I was sad to see the airline go bust in such an underhand way.
-
Not a bad doku but that voice over.. Can.t listen to that for more than 5 minutes. AI nonsense. It.s getting way out of hand. Good doku,s but those fake voice overs.. Pathetic.
-
I flew the Laker Skytrain DC-10 from LAX to LGW on 26-Oct-1979 as a teenager.
-
An absolutely fabulous video… Kudos to you….. sincerely a great job
-
About half the clips have the wrong aspect ratio (stretched/distorted)
-
Dude is low kew a legend, he walked so others could run. Probably one of the reasons the jet-set met its demise, and honestly, my hat off to him for it!
-
it was the dangerous american aircraft engineers using fork lift trucks to fit rngines on to the wings of DC-10s that when the engine slsmmed up into the mountings it caused them to crack so thst under thecstrsin of a take off thevengine broke off theceing causing the aircraft to crash this grounded all DC-10s until the gash working practices were found out neaning that all of freddie Laker’s aircraft were grounded this meant thst sll the passengers had to be put up in hotels until the grounding was lifted a similar thing alnmodtcsent virgin Atlantic to the wall in 2002 after 9/11 president bush closed US Airspace making all virgin Atlantic flights to US destinations land in Newfoundland wherecall the passengers had to be put up in hotels intil president bush lifted yhe grounding. I had just bought a new hose in manchedter snd was suddrnly out of work! fortunately aI got snother job at stansted Airport with an american air cargo airline provided Inpassed an american aircraft engineering Qualification
-
wrong intonation for a documentary. It's not a news bulletin.
-
A really great presentation. Laker was unstoppable.
-
I was a baggage handler at Manchester Ringway in the 1980s. Skytrain DC10s were the only wide body aircraft that didn't use standard baggage containers in the rear hold. Everything was loaded in manually via the mobile belt. I don't know the reason. I might hazard a guess that Freddie realised that he could save some weight by not using containers. Hopefully some one will know the answer.
When the whole thing was wrapped up the last departing DC10 did a circuit and a runway pass, giving us a wing waggle to say goodbye. Nice touch that one. Almost brought a tear to my eye, even though they did try to do my back in humping all those bloomin' suitcases onboard!
