[Travel] Can you remember your 1st flight?

[GREASED WEASEL]

Gatwick-Girona 1982

 

[Marlton and Hove Albion]

Gatwick-Girona 1982

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That's odd. Mine was LGW - Girona in 1972. I recently moved and found the ticket!!!! Boeing 707. British Airtours.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Heathrow Vancouver 1982.

 

[knocky1]

Freddie Laker to LA. 1980.

 

[Is it PotG?]

London to Bridgetown 1983.

Brucie Bonus, we got upgraded.

 

[Since1982]

Gatwick to Edinburgh, probably 1986. In those days there was no security checks of any sort for domestic flights.

 

[oldboyroy]

Gatwick to Thesalonika

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

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That's odd. Mine was LGW - Girona in 1972. I recently moved and found the ticket!!!! Boeing 707. British Airtours.

You didn't holiday in Calella, pas hasard?

 

[Icy Gull]

London to Kuala Lumpur around 1955, I remember it had a bar and as a very small kid I wasn’t allowed in with my Dad. Funny the things you remember

My father was in the army fighting a communist revolt

It was on one of these, what a plane

 

[The Wookiee]

Gatwick to Jersey- 1975

Although don’t remember much as I was only 4

 

[Beach Hut]

Gatwick to Clermont Ferrand around 1975

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

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That's odd. Mine was LGW - Girona in 1972. I recently moved and found the ticket!!!! Boeing 707. British Airtours.

Same as me - Gatwick to Girona in 1981 and we holidayed in Calella


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[Comrade Sam]

Heathrow-Vancouver 1976

 

[JJ McClure]

Gatwick to Heraklion in Crete with Orion Airways, 1986.
Back in the days when as a kid you were allowed to go and see the cockpit (Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?).

 

[Dave the OAP]

707. South African Airways. 1966. Heathrow to Jan Smutts Airport, Johannesburg

 

[Weststander]

August 78 on a DanAir Comet to Malaga, on a two week family holiday to Fuengirola.

We were allowed into the cockpit to say hello and look around, in those days there was an additional flight engineer down the side.

 

[A1X]

Gatwick to Mahon, 1994, AirTours

 

[bhafc99]

Vancouver to London, 1972. I was five.

We flew so my parents could look into coming back to the UK, after living in Canada for 7 years.

After a few week’s recce, we flew back to Canada, and then the next summer flew back for good.

I don’t really remember those flights, though I do remember being told we would need to land in Iceland on the way to refuel, as in those days it was too far for a non-stop flight.

Iceland seemed incredibly exciting to a 5/6 year old, like it would be full of polar bears and eskimos, and for a few years afterwards I shamelessly used to claim to have “visited Iceland” if kids were ever doing a “where have you been” tally in the playground.

 

[Silverhatch]

Dan Air Comet 4 to Ibiza

Was aged 10 at the time and also encouraged to go into the cockpit,,, Joey, you ever hang round the gymnasium?

 

[Weststander]

Freddie Laker to LA. 1980.

We flew Laker to JFK in 79.