On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Terry Harper wrote:

There was a time when BCAL had some BAC 1-11 with all-backward
facing seats, which they mainly used for trooping contracts to
Germany. They occasionally got used on regular services as well,
like Gatwick-Manchester.

I'm sure I caught one of those out of Glasgow, way back.

Can't remember where I was going to. If it wasn't Gatwick, then it
would have been Geneva, I guess.

But some of the BA Shuttles to LHR also had a row of rear-facing
seats, so I wasn't taken completely by surprise. Kind of odd feeling
at take-off.