Comment / G-MONB was one of the first Boeing 757s around, delivered to Monarch on this very stretch of tarmac on the 21st March 1983. With the first deliveries of the aircraft from Boeing only beginning at the end of December of 1982, only two carriers - British Airways and Eastern Air Lines - were flying 757s by this time. Today Monarch continues to operate seven examples of the type to all sorts of destinations.