Following the transfer of all charter traffic to Tegel, Channel Airways, Dan-Air Services, Laker Airways and Modern Air Transport began stationing several of their jets at the airport.

Britain's Conservative Government was aware that Dan-Air was on the brink of bankruptcy, and wanted to avoid the collapse of another independent British airline, especially if its profile was as high as that of Virgin Atlantic.

Dan-Air and Air Europe had played an important role in the development of Gatwick and its short-haul scheduled route network.

Channel Airways's collapse in early 1972 provided the impetus for Dan-Air to take over the failed carrier's charter contracts and to expand its own operations at Tegel.

Dan-Air discontinued its charter operations from Berlin on behalf of German tour operators at the end of the 1990 – 91 winter season and replaced the ageing 748 turboprop it had used on its Amsterdam schedule since the mid-1980s with larger, more advanced BAe 146 100 series jet equipment.

In 1955 Dan-Air moved its base to Blackbushe.

Following Euravia's acquisition of Skyways, Skyways Coach-Air remained independent until its successor Skyways International was taken over by Dan-Air in 1972.

British Airtours, as the airline had become known following the creation of British Airways in 1974 as a result of the 1972 BEA — BOAC merger, therefore decided to retire its remaining five Comets at the end of that year's summer season and to sell the entire fleet to Dan-Air.

After the failed attempt to use the acquisition of Dan-Air, which was on the verge of bankruptcy at the end of October 1992, to form a new low-cost, short haul unit within BA's mainline short haul operation at Gatwick, franchising seemed to offer the best solution for providing the level of feeder services BA needed to protect its long-haul loads and profits at Gatwick, without re-creating the complex organisation and fleet mix, and without duplicating the costly overheads of the BA mainline short haul operation at Heathrow, which did not suit the revenue environment at Gatwick.

To attain this goal, BA's management unilaterally imposed the pay scales and terms of the old Dan-Air employment contracts on the entire workforce of its Gatwick-based short haul operation at the beginning of 1993.

However, BA's unilateral decision to force everyone working for its short haul operation at Gatwick to take a pay cut caused bitter feelings towards the company, among both former Dan-Air staff as well as BA's existing employees at Gatwick who were already working for its short haul operation there prior to Dan-Air's acquisition.

Therefore, BA's attempt to extend the lower pay scales and less generous terms of employment that prevailed at Dan-Air to align the costs of its short haul operation at Gatwick with the airport's revenue environment eventually turned out to be a costly failure.

The airline's subsequent withdrawal and its demise in turn resulted in Dan-Air becoming the UK flag carrier between Manchester and Zürich.

At one time the airline Dan-Air had its head office in the Newman House in Horley.

* April 25 – Dan-Air Flight 1008 crashes in Tenerife, killing all 146 occupants and marking the worst air disaster involving a British-registered aircraft in terms of loss of life.

** A chartered Dan-Air De Havilland Comet crashes into the mountains north of Barcelona ; at least 112 people are killed.

* 1991 – 1992: Dan-Air replaced Air Europe as Gatwick's principal short-haul scheduled operator following the latter's demise at the beginning of that period.

Dan-Air, one of Britain's foremost wholly private, independent airlines during the 1970s and 80s, eventually became the third-biggest operator at Tegel Airport, ahead of Air France.

Dan-Air operated the first commercial flight to arrive at the airport's new terminal at 06. 00 am local time with a BAC One-Eleven that was in-bound from Tenerife.

These measures were squarely aimed at UK carriers with a major presence in the internal German air transport market from Berlin as well as the city's charter market, specifically British Airways and Dan-Air.

This was in stark contrast to BA's mainline short haul operation at Gatwick, which had racked up huge losses ever since BA had established a major presence at Gatwick as a result of the British Caledonian and Dan-Air takeovers.

It became the operating base for charter airlines such as Autair ( which went on to become Court Line ), Euravia ( now Thomson Airways, following Euravia's change of name to Britannia Airways and subsequent merger with First Choice Airways ), Dan-Air and Monarch Airlines.

G-BDAT ( G-AYOR when in service with Court ) was one of four BAC One-Eleven # The One-Eleven 500, 510ED and 475 | BAC One-Eleven 500 s Dan-Air acquired in 1974 following Court Line's bankruptcy.

In 1972, Laker Airways co-founded Gatwick Handling, a Gatwick handling agent that has become part of the Aviance group, with Dan-Air.

Dan-Air flew the route London-Gatwick – Newcastle – Stavanger, until they were taken over by British Airways in 1992.

* November 9 – Dan-Air registers the last commercial flight by a de Havilland Comet.

* The 1977 Dan-Air Boeing 707 crash caused by fatigue failure resulting in the loss of the right horizontal stabilizer

A number of charter flights operated by Dan-Air to Palma ( Mallorca ) were introduced on Saturdays during the summer season using their BAC One-Eleven.

Dan-Air inherited the service, offering a three-times daily service using initially a based BAC 1-11 jets followed in the early 1990s by Boeing 737-200 aircraft.

Dan-Air and Britannia Airways, the UK's leading charter airlines, feared that without reciprocal foreign regulatory approvals Laker would be forced to dump this additional widebody capacity on the European charter market, creating excess capacity that would collapse charter rates.

* June 26 – Dan-Air Flight 240, a Hawker Siddeley HS 748 series 2A cargo aircraft, crashes near Nailstone, Leicestershire, England, killing the entire crew of three, after the failure of a cabin door causes a major structural failure.

* Charter flights for Dan-Air Services Ltd

Between 1963 and 1981 Dan-Air of London operated a route between Newcastle and Kjevik.

A route to Malmö, Sweden, started in 1991 and on a week's notice in 1992, Braathens SAFE started flying to London Gatwick Airport, after the bankruptcies of Norway Airlines and Dan-Air.

* April 25 – Dan-Air Flight 1008, a Boeing 727-46, turns the wrong way in a holding pattern and crashes into high terrain while on approach to Tenerife North Airport on the island of Tenerife in Spains Canary Islands, killing all 146 people on board.

* July 31 – Dan-Air Flight 0034, a Hawker Siddeley HS 748, crashes into the sea while attempting to take off from Sumburgh Airport on the Shetland Mainland in Scotland, drowning 17 of the 47 people on board.

Cathay Pacific took the L-1011 TriStar widebodies while Dan-Air and Monarch Airlines respectively purchased four and two of the One-Eleven 500 narrowbodies.

* May 25 – A Dan-Air Avro 685 York C. 1 cargo aircraft suffers an in-flight engine fire and crashes during a forced landing near Gurgaon, Haryana, India, killing four members of the five-person crew.

* July 3 – A Dan-Air de Havilland DH 106 Comet Series 4 crashes on the slopes of the Sierra del Montseny near Arbucias ( Gerona ) in Catalonia in northern Spain, killing all 112 people on board.

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