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SOMALIA RTP SLOT Laker Airways's demise also enabled BCal to relaunch a daily service between Gatwick and Los Angeles, to acquire six aircraft from the failed carrier's estate and to move into the hangar it had occupied at Gatwick. Laker Airways's collapse at the beginning of February of that year provided BCal with additional work to utilise its spare aircraft capacity. Another negative consequence for BCal was that one of its eight McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 widebodied jets suddenly became surplus to its long-haul scheduled requirements, forcing the airline to look for alternative work to increase long-haul fleet utilisation. In 1983, BCal became the first non-French airline to order the Airbus A320. Airbus Industrie had also offered the airline a generous discount to sign up as a launch customer. BCal placed a firm order for seven A320s and took an option on another three, with deliveries of the aircraft on firm order due to commence during the spring of 1988. The options were subsequently converted into firm orders as well.|BellSouth Merilis IBM Simon Personal Communicator