"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"Spiv" wrote in message
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Fact is as you must know millions of Europeans have being
making short haul flights to the Med for their hols for
the last 30 years. The airlines operated BAC-111's
for a while alongside Comet4's, Britannia's , Caravelles's
etc but almost all had switched to Boeing aircraft by the mid 80's.

mid 1980s? By that time the Airbus was making excellent in-roads.

They had sold around 280 A-300's by that time and were a
relatively small part of the UK fleets which were dominated by
737's but certainly sold well to French carriers even if it was
a little on the large side to compete with the 737.

The point is European, not just UK. 280, is not all switching to Boeings.
280 is fair number of planes.

Airbus sales only really took off with the intruction of the A-320
which did compete very succesfully with the 737. It wasnt
until 1990 that Airbus orders started to approach those of Boeing

Keith