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Daily Telegraph newspaper clipping from 1977 showing Sir Freddie Laker at Gatwick Airport during Skytrain countdown
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Daily Telegraph newspaper clipping from 1977 showing Sir Freddie Laker at Gatwick Airport during Skytrain countdown

A Daily Telegraph newspaper clipping from September 26, 1977, featuring a photograph of Sir Freddie Laker at Gatwick Airport during the Skytrain countdown. The image shows Laker with passengers, including Mrs. Sarah Jane King from Haslemere, Surrey, who was queuing to buy her ticket at 4 a.m. for the inaugural low-cost transatlantic service to New York.

Sir Freddie Laker Skytrain Daily Telegraph 1977 1970s Gatwick Airport newspaper clipping transatlantic service New York low-cost airline passengers

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