I took the cheapest business class flight from London to Dhaka many years ago on Bangladesh Airways. I was the only person up front on bench like seats when the wooden trolley came around with the drinks, occasionally getting the wheels stuck in the frayed carpet. It was a rather mature MD80 and I settled back to read the tatty inflight magazine handed to me by the trolly dolly. On the inside cover was the potted history of Bangladesh Airways, I read that I was on their second and only MD80, the first had apparently crashed recently while landing during delivery. I flew back on BA, but that’s another story.
Flying around Russia in the 80’s was always “interesting” my most vivid memory is the style of landing approach the ex military pilots had, it felt more like they were going to strafe the airfield, vodka for breakfast helped a lot.
