Grounded: UK International Airlines
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- This episode of Grounded looks at UKIA - UK International Airlines, they operated a Boeing 767 from East Midlands Airport in the UK to the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan. UKIA were a fairly unique airline in that their head office was located above a small furniture shop and and under the same ownership. The airline did manage to acquire a second aircraft however it would never see service with the airline and over ten years after the airline's demise it was still sat abandoned...
A few notes for today's episode;
The script for today's episode was written in early 2018 with the audio being recorded not long after that, at the time of production G-CEMK was still sat abandoned in Brunei though it's quite possibly been scrapped since.
There was also a serious lack of information regarding this airline, I had to compile a script based on whatever nuggets of information I could gather along with personal recollections from myself and a friend who was headhunted for a senior position with the company.
UKIA did actually operate a few other sub-charter flights aside from the September 2007 one for Thomas Cook, the operated a couple for LTU of Germany and one for XL Airways UK.
As I mentioned above, this was written and recorded back in 2018 (though wasn't compiled until 2021). I had placed it in a bit of a "strategic reserve" so that I would be able to keep a steady flow of episodes coming out and hopefully keeps you all satisfied until the next episode arrives :) (the original production number for this was GND-01-08, it's dropping as episode 35).
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Another excellent 'Grounded' episode. 👍
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Great job! I froze when you got to the part that they kept the old United cabins. I rode on one of those 767 at the end of their United career and they were worn out!
Thanks. Yeah they were the original grey with blue orange and red stripes (the kind still being used in episodes of ACI/Mayday until recently). The website showed pictures of the interior but alas the archive didn't capture those.
That website looks like something I would have designed in my IT lessons in school
Haha yeah, you should have seen the first one but the archive didn't capture it properly.
I remember this airline the livery was very odd it a AB design on tail with purple
I think you may possibly be thinking of AB Airlines, formerly Air Bristol? They had a purple tail with "AB" in blue, though they ceased ops in '99 so a few years before these guys.
Nice
Thank you :)
Hi Phil, another fantastic video,
Will we get more UK failures from the 90s/00s? There are so many unfortunately
Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed the video :) Yes there are (sadly) quite a few episodes in the works from the more well known ones to the more obscure as well as some that lead into others almost like a story arc given how so many airlines were connected somehow.
@@ExpoAviation can’t wait! Thanks Phil
Do a story on Golden Gate Airlines.
I'll take a look at them :)
Could they not make a lot of aluminium wardrobes
haha now there's an idea ;)
Unbelievable how did the CAA ever allow them to operate a single flight.
It's an honest question and I doubt even the CAA could answer that one, considering how hard they made it for AV8 to get going it is like comparing chalk and cheese. I think the folks at the CAA had a collective brain fart the day the UKIA paperwork came through and just rubber stamped it...
@@ExpoAviation Must have been considering how strict & demanding the CAA usually are it's very surprising!
Are you still working on donbassaero
Not yet, it's on my list though :)
Thanks