[Travel] First and last flights

[Thunder Bolt]

1961 Gatwick to Ostend - a prop job (my actual first time in the air was a flight around Clacton for 20 minutes the year before}

2014 Malaga - Gatwick Easyjet.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Brize Norton Gibraltar. Crabair. 1978. In a Hercules. If you know, you know.


Heathrow. Krakow. BA 2019, and return.

Hope you took your own spanner to secure the area around you!

 

[Goldstone1976]

First flight: BCal (?) London-Singapore (2 stops? 3?) 1969, aged 6. My grandmother dropped me off with a stewardess at the gate in London, who delivered me to my mother waiting at the gate in Singapore. Doubt that'd happen now!
Second flight: VC10 return trip (again alone) about 18 months later - largely sitting in the cockpit. Don't think that'd happen either.

Last flight: Atlanta-LHR, BA, March 2020.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

1982 Gatwick to Hannover (BA?) First posting to Germany
2019 Gatwick to Corfu (Thomson type company)

 

[wehatepalace]

Gran Canaria in 96
Jamaica December 19
Meant to be off to the Caribbean again this December but not holding my breath it’ll happen !

 

[DavidRyder]

First - joy ride in a Tiger Moth, inc a loop the loop

Last - BA flighty from Verona, 2007 (no aerobatics)

 

[Mexican Seagull]

First flight was in the early 70s with Aeroflot from Copenhagen to Heathrow, for some reason was in 1st class or was it class for non Russians, amazing how much vodka I managed to drink on the hour and a half flight served by a very sturdily built stewardess
Last was AA flying back from a business trip to Santa Domingo to Mexico

 

[MTSeagulls]

First flight was circa 1971 from Heathrow to Shannon. I was only a small child but for some reason I think the stairs into the plane were under the cockpit. I also remember being sat on a priests lap so maybe it was all a horrible dream.
Last flight was March last year being repatriated from Lisbon to Sao Paulo after an aborted cruise.
We were taken off the ship, put on to coaches and driven directly to the steps of the plane by police escort. No check in, bag checks or anything.

 

[Barrow Boy]

1st - Pleasure flight in a single engine (Cesna?) with my Dad and Brother from Shoreham Airport circa 1964.
1st jet flight - Dan Air BAC1-11 (Bus Stop Jet) Gatwick/Gerona in 1973

Last - BA flight Gatwick/Majorca 2019

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

First was a family holiday to Spain in 81 I think. Gatwick to Gerona on Monarch airlines. Last was Gatwick-Berlin.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

My first flight was probably 1977 - Southampton to Jersey after my parents in law moved there.

My last flight was February last year from Morocco (Agadir) to Gatwick after a great week in Marrakesh and then on the Coast at Agadir. A great week. We actually flew out a year ago yesterday 21st January - and I would love to be back there now. Great Country and lovely people.

 

[seagullwedgee]

December 29th 1977 - LHR to Montreal - Air Canada.
March 19th 2020 - Perth WA to Dubai to Birmingham - Emirates.

 

[Superphil]

First would have been around 1966/7 to RAF Wildenrath from RAF Brize Norton, possibly in an Argosy or a Belfast.

Last was Melbourne to Gatwick in March 2020 in an A380.

 

[Dr Q]

First: 1991 Manchester to Naples BMI or similar?

Last: March 9th 2020 Houston to Heathrow British Airways

 

[Gabbafella]

First: 1987. Gatwick to Algarve with Cal-Air on a DC-10
Last: 2019. Gatwick to Budapest with Easyjet on an A330

 

[Icy Gull]

Probably London to Lagos around 1958 on a BOAC Britannia
Lisbon to London 28 Dec 2019 on a BA Airbus A320

Good thread

 

[lawros left foot]

Hope you took your own spanner to secure the area around you!

It did rattle a bit.

And the noise, ear defenders , all the way.
I was shocked when I flew first time on a commercial flight, how quiet it was.

 

[Icy Gull]

First would have been around 1966/7 to RAF Wildenrath from RAF Brize Norton, possibly in an Argosy or a Belfast.

Last was Melbourne to Gatwick in March 2020 in an A380.

I once flew to Wildenrath on a Bristol Freighter. The plane had a problem and on landing we had fire engines running alongside the plane. No drama fortunately but it instilled a still present fear of flying

Thinking about, it could have been Gutersloh not Wildenrath

 

[Official Old Man]

First. Bit of guessing but around 1967 Gatwick to Mallorca.
Last Actual. October 2019 Dominican Rep to Gatwick.
Last Booked but not taken. November 2020 Gatwick to Krakow.
Next expected. Not this year. Driving somewhere.

Flight nightmares.
Late 60's flew to Tunisia and had very bad nose bleed.
On a hired plane for expats returning to Spain post Xmas, suitcases piled up through back door into cabin. Sure we touched the grass at the end of the runway at Gatwick.
Flying over a field in Samana, Dom Rep, in a Dreamliner whilst the pilot worked out if he could land the plane in an airport smaller than Shoreham.
Flight dream.
Turning left at entry. Do it all the time now.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Heathrow to Joburg. 1966

Malaga to Gatwick 2019

FFS