Originally Posted by
Seat 2A
My first 737 flight was in August 1972 aboard a United bird between LAX and SBA.
Mine was a Britannia Airways one, I am guessing February 1976 during a University break week, Edinburgh to Alicante, when the holiday companies were doing 5-day winter trips (out Monday back Friday), flight, transfer to Benidorm resort, hotel and food, all for GBP 19 ! They were of course just using marginal time where previously aircraft had been unused in deep winter, crews stood down, and Spanish hotels closed. The 737 out was one of the early ones (Britannia had been one of the pioneer 737 users in 1968) with a plain interior but the one returning had the new Boeing mid-1970s interior with the sculptured cabin ceiling etc.