Paramount Airways (QJ/PAT) two new MD83s started charter services from Bristol Airport to Tenerife and Malaga on May the 1st 1987. In 1988 they added two more new MD83s and two 737-200s from the still newly formed Amber Airways that they had just taken over. Their main departure airports from the UK including their base at Bristol were Birmingham, Belfast, Newcastle, Exeter, East Midlands, & Glasgow.
More expansion came with the formation of Paramount Executive operating a Cessna 550 Citation II based at Birmingham.
In 1989 a new 737-300 was added & one remaining 737-200 still in the fleet was based at Manchester. They also leased a 727-100 from ATA for the summer and this was based at Gatwick. The Airline then started getting into financial difficulties. Paramount limped on for the rest of the summer until they finally ceased trading by October 89.
Fleet details:
McDonnell Douglas MD-83
G-PATA c/n 49398
G-PATB c/n 49400
G-PATC c/n 49962
G-PATD c/n 49663
Boeing 737-300
G-PATE c/n 24093
Boeing 737-200
G-BKMS c/n 22453
G-BOSA c/n 20808
Cessna 550 Citation II
G- JFRS c/n 550-0569
Cessna 500 Citation
G-BHTT c/n 500-0404
Cessna 500 Citation
G-BHTT c/n 500-0404
The good old days, will always remember a promo trip on one of the MD's in typical BRS wx, Sue Gee was serving the drinks ( do you remember her ! )
ReplyDeleteWith you Derek! Great days indeed. I actually married one of the original stewardesses. We still chat about the good times.
ReplyDeleteOh yes good times. I still have a box of Paramount Carrier bags in the loft from when we chucked them away after they went bust
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