a lot of nostalgia has been going on for close to 5 years in the
Old Timers' Airline and Airliner Quiz and Discussion thread ... close to 10,000 posts and over half a million views
Originally Posted by
tarheelnj
There was a monthly pocket-sized American Express timetable. I subscribed to it for years. It was critical during IRROPS to show the agent alternative flights on other airlines (also when no pay phones available). ... I really enjoyed going through that book making up RTW itineraries, looking up airport/airline/aircraft codes, even just to see interesting flights between different city pairs. ... I used to enjoy going from counter to counter, picking up timetables ... I would then spend most of the flight I was taking reviewing them. I found it more fun than reading real books in flight. Friends/family always thought I was nuts.
(The above confession would not be possible anywhere except FT!)
+1 to both ... my father traveled a lot during his USAF career, and almost always brought back timetables ... it was always a thrill to get, say, a Capital Airlines schedule when we were living in Los Angeles, or a Pacific Airlines one after we moved to the DC area
Originally Posted by
milepig
I remember a time when there was always a line of people at the library waiting to use the OAG. It was one of the things they had to keep behind the desk or it would go "missing".
I don't want to think about how many hours I spent in the stacks of the main reference library on my college campus, fantasizing over the OAGs when I should have been studying for exams, working on problem sets, etc