>>2051378They did very late 90s, partly courtesy of spotters sites and also because I started there around 2000 and there were some early msn A320's and 21's there already (looking at some of those registrations is a trip down memory lane) to say nothing of the lower-deck-lav A330s (who were global fleet FH leaders up to TCX going bang; the old girls were still trucking away happily)
An anecdote in the spirit of the thread. Pull up a toolbox, lad.
The 3 DC10s were all due to go out of service on the same day. One last set of flights, and then adios. BYDA, TDTW (aka Tinky Winky) and DPSP (Dipsy) had other ideas. They effectively downed tools that day. "Get rid of us, will you? Right. Sod you.". All three went tech before their early morning flights, had maintrol and flight ops both tearing their hair out as they tried to sort out the consequences of three sulking widebodies all day, and they didn't move till I saw them taxi out as I pulled out the car park myself to go home late afternoon. Full day of delays. Ouch. Fortunately I don't THINK we had EU261 at the time. Now in fairness, the reliability of those old jets was partly the reason they were getting offloaded, but I did find it darkly amusing they'd gone for collective action.
