The final blow came when British Caledonian ( BCal ) found out about a rescue package that McDonnell-Douglas and General Electric ( GE ), the suppliers of DC-10 widebodied aircraft and its CF6 engines to Laker as well as BCal, had put together.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

On 23 August 2009, Jim Laker, along with Jack Hobbs and Len Hutton, were inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

This opened the way for Caledonian to make a successful counter bid for BUA, seeing off competition from that airline's former managing directors Freddie Laker and Alan Bristow and from Channel Airways chairman Jack Jones.

The team in probable batting order was: Jack Hobbs, Mike Brearley, Vivian Richards, Learie Constantine, Ted Dexter, Ian Botham, Keith Miller, Wilfred Rhodes, George Brown ( WK ), Jim Laker and Wes Hall.

Game 7 was held on May 5 ; Laker owner Jack Kent Cooke had balloons hung up in the arena in anticipation of a Lakers victory.

By October 1980, Laker introduced fully bookable Super Economy fares on all Skytrain services.

Aviation Traders Ltd. ( ATL ) was established by Freddie Laker at Bovingdon in Hertfordshire, England, in 1947 to trade in war-surplus aircraft and spares.

* November 1972: Laker Airways became the first operator of widebody aircraft at Gatwick, following the introduction of two McDonnell-Douglas DC-10-10 aircraft.

A British Airways Lockheed L-1011 Tristar 1, a Laker Airways McDonnell-Douglas DC-10-10, a Pan Am Boeing 747-100 and an Air France Airbus A300 B2 were among the widebodied aircraft specially flown in for a pre-inauguration of the new terminal on 23 October 1974.

Laker Airways came up with a 30 % discount offer to encourage tour operators to charter the airline's aircraft during the winter trough and a " time charter ".

In the days when airports and air space were relatively uncongested, Laker Airways instructed departing One-Eleven crews to tune in to other jet aircraft taking off ahead of them, and to begin a conversation with the other aircraft's crew while continuing their climb.

Among the weight-saving measures Laker Airways used to make its aircraft fly longer without refuelling was a baggage allowance limit of 15 kg rather than the more usual 20 kg as well as carrying fewer passengers than the aircraft could hold.

Before offering the aircraft to Laker, McDonnell-Douglas had asked British Caledonian ( BCal ) whether it was interested.

Despite these drawbacks, Laker Airways took the aircraft.

Moreover, Laker Airways had figured that the aircraft's low break-even seat factor would enable it to operate its proposed London — New York Skytrain with a lower break-even factor compared to the 707, an ageing narrowbodied aircraft whose costs were higher per passenger.

In addition, Laker Airways agreed with Japanese lessor Mitsui that was going to buy the aircraft from McDonnell-Douglas before leasing them to Laker to pay for the leases out of flying revenues only.

The aircraft Laker Airways allocated to International Caribbean Airways sported International Caribbean as well as the Barbadian flag on both sides of the forward fuselage in place of Laker and the Union Flag featured by the company's other aircraft.

In November 1972, Laker became the first airline outside North America to operate the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 widebody when it took delivery of a pair of new series 10 aircraft from MDC's factory in Long Beach, California, via Japanese lessor Mitsui.

By the time the CAA awarded Laker these licences, the airline was experiencing financial difficulties and had to dispose of three A300 widebodies to cut costs by reducing the number of aircraft types as well as its overall size.

Although the Laker Airways fleet contained a greater proportion of modern widebodied aircraft than most of its competitors, which made it cheaper to operate and maintain, the airline felt the sudden tripling of the price of crude oil in the aftermath of the Shah of Iran's fall from power.

Following Laker Airways's demise at the end of the first week of February in 1982, a number of aircraft the airline had operated at that time were quickly re-allocated to other operators.

There are three recorded non-fatal incidents involving Laker Airways aircraft.

It was used as a test aircraft by McDonnell Douglas, and then was acquired for passenger service by Laker Airways.

Three former British European Airways ( BEA ) Vickers Vikings, which Laker had acquired in 1949 as well, were overhauled at ATL's Southend maintenance base and sold on to British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) at a profit.

This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen Denis Compton, Peter May, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, bowlers Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Alec Bedser, Jim Laker, Tony Lock and wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans.

ATL furthermore re-engined Argonauts, BOAC's Canadian-built Douglas DC-4s, with unused Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engines, which it sourced from the 88 spare Merlins Laker had acquired earlier along with BOAC's Halifaxes and several Avro Tudors purchased from the Government.

On the trade deadline long time Laker Derek Fisher along with a first round draft pick were traded to the Houston Rockets for Jordan Hill.

Hellary was in contact with colleagues out of work following the collapse of Laker Airways and they developed the idea.

Laker bowled with distinction in 1947, and caused the West Indies trouble in 1947 / 48, taking 7 wickets for 103 runs in the first innings of the 1st Test, but was severely clobbered by Don Bradman's 1948 Australians.

* August 21 – Sir Freddie Laker accepts UK £ 8 million in a settlement with British Airways.

Laker Airways's decision to replace its Tegel-based BAC One-Eleven fleet with one of its newly acquired Airbus A300 B4 widebodies from the 1981 summer season resulted in Monarch Airlines taking over that airline's long-standing charter contract with Flug-Union Berlin, one of West Berlin's leading contemporary tour operators.

The trade didn't immediately sit well with Laker fans but Rice was considered the last piece of the puzzle for the Lakers to return to the NBA Finals.

Laker had been associated with Thomas Grantham, an illustrious General Baptist theologian and writer, and had signed the 1663 edition of the General Baptists ' Standard Confession of Faith.

The business model comes with considerable fiscal risk, as seen in the many companies that have become bankrupt such as Laker Airways and more recent airlines.

On April 20, 2010 a fourth statue of the late long time Lakers broadcaster Chick Hearn, behind a Laker desk with a chair for fans to sit down for a picture, was unveiled.

* 2010: Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman of the Philadelphia Daily News and Sheri Fink of ProPublica, in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine.

Arlott commentated on the first 20 overs of each innings with Jim Laker usually covering the last 20.

Having also taken 9 for 37 in the first innings, Laker ended the match with record figures of 19 for 90, which remain unmatched to this day.

Their great success was built on a remarkably strong bowling attack, with Test seamer Alec Bedser supported by the outstanding spin duo of Tony Lock and Jim Laker, the latter widely regarded as one of the finest ever orthodox off-spinners.

As a starter, Brown disappointed many Laker fans, with his lackluster performance and apparent lack of focus during games, highlighted by one game where he missed an open dunk and registered more turnovers ( 7 ) than rebounds ( 6 ) en route to a Lakers loss.

These were a Saint Paul to Duluth daytime train known only as Trains 62 and 63 ( discontinued June 1961 ); the overnight Chicago to Duluth Laker and its Saint Paul connection ( both discontinued January 15, 1965 ); the Twin Cities to Winnipeg Winnipeger ( discontinued March 25, 1967 ); and the Saint Paul to Portal, North Dakota Soo-Dominion that during the summer, ran through to Vancouver via a connection with Canadian Pacific Railway's The Dominion at Moose Jaw.

Laker had placed this order directly with the manufacturer in 1966.

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