[Travel] First and last flights

[GT49er]

Is that through circumstance or conscious decision?

Never had the inclination (or the money) for foreign holidays when I was younger. Fancied the idea of flying less and less as the years passed by. With a (acquired) condition that now affects my hearing, it would probably be a pretty unpleasant experience anyway.

 

[FamilyGuy]

First: 1964 Luton to Majorca, Monarch Airlines, holiday with my grandparents

Last to date: October 2019, return from Antigua to Gatwick, Virgin, after a couple of weeks at Sandals.

 

[The Mole]

First flight: Luton to Grenoble 1977 a French exchange - no idea who we flew with
Last flight jan 2020 Cape Town to Manchester with Air France

Next one... who knows had four flights cancelled in the last ten months

 

[Sussexscots]

First one would have been from Gatwick to Guernsey. I remember sod all about it because it was in 1965 and I was a year old.

Last one was February 2020 from Gatwick to Edinburgh. Went to see Edinburgh Rugby v Free State Cheetahs and Hibs v Livingston.

Used to flying up there maybe half a dozen times a season. Lord knows when it'll happen again. Might even go back to using the sleeper train.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

First: 1970 Luton to Santiago de Compostela, Courtline, Holiday.
Last: 12/12/2019, Munich to LHR, BA, work.


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[Happy Exile]

First: 1993 Headcorn airfield in Kent for a parachute jump (didn't land in the first plane I went up in)
Last: October 2019 Muscat, Oman to LHR returning from a work trip

 

[Tribsa]

Manston to Bremen, Autair Vickers Viking 1967.

Gatwick to Tobago , Monarch A330 2009

 

[getz]

First flight. Heathrow to Stockholm July 1966. British European Airways. First week of the World Cup. A return trip to stay with our Swedish student(male).

Last flight. 2019. EasyJet to Verona to visit Lake Garda.

 

[Tribsa]

That would almost certainly have been a Dan Air HS748, which the airline continued to operate well after their sell by date, from Gatwick to Berne. I remember flying on one from Gatwick to Jersey in the mid 80's, great fun!

Dan Air were an unusual airline, operating a wide variety of somewhat elderly aircraft types, including the Comet 4B, one of which flew into the mountainside whilst attempting to land in Tenerife.

Sadly it was a Boeing 727 that crashed in Tenerife, caused by Pilot and ATC error. it happened in April 1980.

 

[Garage_Doors]

First Gatwick Majorca cira 1985.
Last Chicago to Gatwick. Feb 2020, was due to go back several times last year, Plan to go back as soon as travel allows.

 

[Return of the Rev]

First flight Miami 1979
Last flight Crete 2015

 

[Knocky's Nose]

First : Manchester-Tunisia - 1982. Thomson Holiday. Economy.

Last : Heathrow-Boston - January 2020. British Airways First - (thanks to Amex for the 2-4-1 voucher, and Avios for the points - both earned over the year spending on cards)

Next : Somewhere cheap with easyJet or similar to get some sun on my bones. I really don't care.

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

First: 31st May 1998 - London-Heathrow (LHR) to Toronto (YYZ) - Canadian Airlines - 5 weeks training for 1st day at new job (which I'm still doing after 22.5 years).
Last: 8th March 2020 - Fort Lauderdale (FLL) to Toronto (YYZ) - WestJet - Long weekend to catch up with a good friend and his family.

 

[Robinjakarta]

First: 21 September 1976, Gatwick to Palma, Mallorca, Dan-Air (awful: hours late, inedible food etc) Comet (OK. First and last chance to fly on one), package deal with Intasun (awful) on honeymoon (awful)

Last: 16 December 2020, Istanbul to Jakarta, Turkish Airlines B787-9 (all fine)

 

[Robinjakarta]

1989 Gatwick to Dominican Republic, Monarch Airways. Amazing it had a smoking area at the back of the plane.

The last I recall with smoking like that was Philippine Airlines 1998 or so.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Not sure when my first flight was, but pretty sure it was Heathrow or Gatwick to Gibraltar in the mid-80´s. My last flight was Madrid to Gatwick on March 10th last year, the day Madrid announced their lockdown. I shared that flight with lots of Athletico Madrid fans going to the Liverpool game...

 

[Klaas]

I have a picture of my first birthday at my Spanish nan's so that would have been 1973. Last one was Jan 2020.

A few posts on here about smoking on flights. I went to the Domincan Republic from Madrid (living there at time) in 2003 and that flight still had a smoking section at the back. Spanish airline. I remember not believing it at the time.

 

[Mayonaise]

First: British Caledonian to Jersey 1970s

Last: JFK New York 2019

 

[patchamalbion]

First: Heathrow to Barbados, November 1987, BA

Last: Berlin to Heathrow, September 2020

 

[Knotty]

1957 Lydd-Ostend Silver City Airways
2019 Faro-London Gatwick British Airways