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MM009 - Edition 2,000
Dan Air
Dan Air Services Ltd was founded in 1953 as a subsidiary
of Davies ans Newman, the shipping brokers from whom the name is
derived. On 23rd of November 1992, the company was sold to British
Airways for £1 who immediately sacked 1,600 staff, including 340 pilots
at airports at Gatwick, Manchester and Newcastle.
Dan-Air Services began a Blackbushe (west of London) to Jersey route in
1955. It was soon renamed Dan-Air London and moved to Gatwick to become
a major holiday charter airline. Dan-Air used Avro York’s, Ambassadors
and then a huge fleet of used Comet 4 and 4B jets in the 1960s, it
bought up every second hand Comet it could find. Laker Airways was
formed by ex-Dan-Air London operator Sir Freddie Laker. We show the
Morris Minor which is based on the vehicles it used to run in its own
fleet.
