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Love this vlog gotta to fly on this aircraft on Christmas Day 1998 from Tenerife to Manchester and as you said the front section is now gate guardian at the RVP and I am a regular visitor there I get to tell loads of folks that I have flown on that section in seat 1A but definitely got a sub from me 😊😊😊😊

Thanks for a great video. Little did I know at the time that I would have been one of the last passengers to fly in this iconic plane, Manchester Sanford Manchester. We had done the same flight several times before but on 757’s calling at Bangor Maine to top up the tanks. I felt it was great only due to the fact we completed the route direct, plus it was the first time I had flown on a true wide bodied jet with ten seats abreast. Good luck with your channel, any chance of a video detailing the use of 757’s out of Manchester now that the last one departed a few days ago ( my first was Air 2000 in May 1987 and last was Jet 2 flight a few years ago)

Good to see you back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember those 757 and particularly that DC10. Worked on them in the Hangar at Manchester when it opened in 1996. Good memories!

God knows why this popped up on my feed, but so glad it did. Great video on ZB’s DC10.

I was cabin crew on this from 1998 until 2001

Fantastic video 💛🖤

Great Video I work on this aeroplane as part of the Education RVP Team at Manchester. Great classroom for learning about Airport operations but we have used for corporate, film & television work. Ps - Only open to the public as part of Flight Academy

While a security guard at Heathrow this Zambia airways DC10 was piloted by a Old man a polish pilot when I was there 1991 to 93 . I think he was In London Heathrow to Zambia route .

I flew to Crete in this Monarch aircraft, it was probably the most enjoyable and comfortable flights I have ever experienced. The Cabin Crew were also brilliant and the flight very comfortable. I know that the DC10 had experienced problems but by then they had been overcome and as a passenger I thought hat it was a great aircraft.

My first flight was in July 96 on a Canadian Airlines DC10, reall old bone shaker it was too. I also worked for a short while for Air Atlanta, but on their 747s, and 767s leased to XCEL Airlines. That was early 2002 to early 2003..

Firstly great to see you back and what a fantastic video for your return. This particular video has brought back so many memories as I was lucky enough to work for Monarch's handling agent at MAN from 1998 to 2002 as a dispatcher and have many hours dispatching all of Monarch's fleet. CA was always the problem child and you could guarantee it being tech on arrival, especially after a Sanford long haul. The crew were great, I remember the husband and wife pilot and cabin crew team Sandy and Jan. The aircraft was never in the DCS system so it was always a manual loadsheet. When MON leased the MD11 it was managed by a ground rep who had an atrocious stutter when under pressure. When the A300s flew via LGW on a Sunday night to a long haul destination (which i can't recall), they always wanted trim tank fuel, which again was a pain in the backside manual loadsheet. One of the captains on the 757 was a fascinating aircraft spotter and used to collect registrations on his trips. All in all it was a fantastic time and a great introduction to my aviation career. I'd do it again if I could.

It was a good airline I whent on a few of there flights

Flew Monarch Boeing 720 in 1982 as a Kid !

Back in 1982 I was on a DC10 from Osaka to Tokyo early morning. It was the smoothest flight I ever had.

Brilliant Monarch video I flew on Monarch regularly; my first flight with them was in I think 1980 Luton to Athens on a Boeing 720B. I flew on their 757 Gmonb several times; great airline. Miss them.

Really nice video mate, brings back some great memories I had with my parents as a child, keep up the good work.

Another idea is to do the: British airways 747 Emirates a330/a340 Thomson/Tui 767

Monarch was a great airline,sad that it finished.

Great video! I remember in the 1990`s, going to Manchester Airport to fly to Malaga with Monarch on a A320. We had a lengthy delay as from what I remember was a problem with the rudder and the delay was due to a new part being fitted. We were told that a part was unavailable and Monarch were sending a replacement plane up from Luton to take us to Malaga. This plane was G-DMCA! I will always remember the amount of room we all had, I had a full row of 5 (I think) all to myself and my wife shared the row in front with our young daughter. With the plane only at maybe half capacity, the power on take of was incredible and something I have never experienced since. I`m quite sure that we had a Scottish pilot for the flight, who seemed quite excited about flying us to Malaga.

I flew for Compass and was on the first aircraft as it was delivered into Brisbane. I flew for 6 months out of Melbourne and eventually went home as the wet lease became dry. The planes were from Monarch and sadly we had to “steal” our planes back 6 months later. A fun company to fly with. Monarch pilots and Australian cabin crew. I still have the newsletters and first flight certificate…. Oh and who was behind it… we all knew who was behind their sad demise…Abels and Murdoch, both were being talked about even at the beginning. Post the Australian pilots strike, a year had passed. I have never met a more militant bunch of pilots in my life. And god did they moan and moan. In my later career and I am talking 15 years later, they were still talking about their pilot strike.

Hey phil (from down the road... you know who i am 😂) if you do one on the Scarebus A300 il send you some old photos

Interesting video..I flew for Monarch 1989-2001…brings back some memories.

7:21 My first ever flight was also done by this A300 from Manchester to Barcelona and the same aircraft would fly me back a few days later. (Late August early September 2010.)

I liked Dc10's we used fly to Paris from Australia with UTA French Airlines, then once with Continental to New York or was it LA? that one had a bar at the rear of the cabin. They were a nice comfortable wide body plane.

I used to work at luton Airport.. I tech cleaned the A300 and also knew some bird on airtours DC10 who used to giv me all the used meals 😂😂😂

Worked for these in ops along with my partner who worked in the accounts team. So many lies and deceits... when people came to visit the offices to 'check in' we had to lie and show them all sorts of technology we didn't have. Lots of fakery and this was back in 2007. We both knew then to get out and luckily had secured jobs in other places but knew so many office based staff who had management come round the day before just asking 'to update their personnel file so making sure we had correct email addresses' - and then had an email sent to them telling them not to come into the offices 😞... sad times

Wow. Very detailed. I'm a bit late to the game but used to work for Flyjet as cabin crew and then for my sins changed to XL, working as crew and in the offices within pre-flight and the ops departments. Always knew loads was going on behind the scenes - especially because of the senior people involved, but this has helped tie up some queries. Many many thanks 🙂

Surprisingly interesting, do you have anything on the MyTravel DC-10s? There was a video posted about 10 years ago with one doing a low fly past whilst leaving for the scrappers in South Africa.

Monarch packed you in on those A300s 28 inch pitch and 3x3. Pure purgatory for 7 hours to Bahrain.

Here is some constructive criticism for you. You suck.

Amazing vid! Do you plan on doing Thomas Cook, Monarch, or possibly a revisit on XL soon?

That engine failure sounds similar to that Soux City crash.

Regarding British operators that previously operated the McDonnel Douglas DC-10. Laker Airways was totally overlooked. Laker Airways was of course the first British airline to fly the type. They had ten examples in their fleet when they went under in February 1982. A mix of DC-10-10s and DC-10-30s. Although it wasn't on the UK register Air Europe briefly leased a single McDonnel Douglas DC-10-30 from World Airways in the late 1980's.

5:09 😂😂

6:30 I went to Heraklion with them

My only flight on a DC 10 was on this aircraft from montego Bay. January 2000. Went out on their a330. But it had a technical issue, and they sent the dc10 for us the following day. I didn't appreciate it at the time, but I am happy I got to fly on it.

Brilliant video Phil great to have you back

Nice job mate!Have always liked the DC10.

Being ex MON I’m very impressed with your knowledge. “The Ten” actually near did have a reprieve but that’s another story!

Went on this same AC in Feb 2000 coming back from Tunisia flew out on a A300-600 and got the jump seat for approach and landing, pre 9-11!

I saw her in 2001 in Dalaman

I have literally just found your channel and I am a sucker for reading up on the history behind the planes I catch.. I guess I just love the stories that some of them have! An somewhat interesting find of my own: I have an aviation book which I grew up reading, it showcased widebody aircraft of the 80’s and upcoming ideas of the 90’s, and one of the pages was showing the Ilyushin IL76. Each plane in the book had its own page, with a photographed example of one, and the IL76 photo of the author’s choice was that of none other than ‘UN-76435’, which of course the author had no idea would crash a few years later in the Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision of 1996. I forget when the book was originally published although I know for sure it was before 1996. It was only by chance that I found it too, I was just looking through the pages researching the histories of each aircraft via their registrations if they were visible in the photo’s, and I had no idea that one of the aircraft I would check the history of, would have met such a tragic end. From that day on, I saw aircraft a little differently… two Boeing 767-200ER’s for example could come out of the very same assembly line in the same year, however would go on to have two vastly different lives. Keep up the great work Sir😊

Great video!

Flew on tinker belle the year prior to this on my first 747 flight to Orlando. Departing from the same runway:) awesome

Ah loved flying Monarch GSMAN A330 to Goa. Shame they've gone.

I had a smoke with the flight crew of Spotty M's DC-10 in Orlando July 96. Lovely people. I'd flown in from LGW. They came from Manchester

Liking this channel, I flew to Menorca with my mum to holiday with friends there, on a Monarch Boeing 720. I think that was in 1792, it ran on coal. Loving this obscure aviation history review which has some incredible detail. Keep up the good work 👍

While predominantly maintained at MAN and operating from LGW and MAN, I had the opportunity to work on the Monarch DC-10 at LTN on a few occasions. One of the visits was to replace the No.2 (centre) engine. It’s a long way up! Not a job for the faint hearted doing the disconnections. Alas, all didn’t go well. During lowering of the engine part of the equipment (bootstrap kit) failed, literally leaving the 4 tonne engine mid air. After several enquiries to and from Boeing, then having acquired the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, we slowly and tentatively lowered the engine to the ground. The damaged piece of equipment was eventually replaced, but the engine replacement took 3 days instead of 30 hours! Ah, the memories 😊