Forgotten BA services, products & routes
Dec 7, 2018, 6:55 am
#47
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Some old BA Express timetables here https://airline-memorabilia.blogspot...ways%20Express.
Dec 7, 2018, 8:57 am
#50
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Bar a Qatar J TP 'run', something I wanted to try anyhow, I have never done one!
I miss the BA Travel Shops.
I remember the one in Edinburgh very well and used it quite a number of times. When the first 'new' WTP seat was launched there was one in the shop and after sitting it it I bought an upgrade for the return leg from the States.
The staff in them were wonderful. Extremely genuine and helpful, certainly here in Edinburgh, and a few of them were originally cabin crew. Any issues/questions you could just call them or pop in which many people did and they were always happy to help/advise etc. Call me old fashioned but I still prefer buying from shops in human contact, whether that's John Lewis, Marks and Sparks etc and don't generally buy stuff online other than holidays and hotels.
I used to like taking a few brochures home too and the luxury holidays one was a good read but WAY out of my price range!
Dec 7, 2018, 9:19 am
#51
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The result of that was taking the QE2 from New York to Southampton in April 2008 on its third last transatlantic. Really glad I did that, but without those brochures, I probably never would have.
Same thing with airlines sending timetables and what not to me back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. All of that has resulted in a lot of flying today.
Dec 7, 2018, 9:46 am
#53
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The Comet 4s never were grounded (as in the term usually used when prevented from flying due to a safety concern). That was earlier versions - the 4 was the result of all the changes after the fatal structural failures of the previous marks.
Comet 4s continued to fly well into the 80s with Dan Air and my first ever flight was on one on a school trip to Rome in the mid-70s. Memorable for one of the young teachers getting pissed on the outbound flight and she had to be helped off the plane by a number of us pupils. Imagine the Daily Mail headlines if that happened on a school trip today!!
Comet 4s continued to fly well into the 80s with Dan Air and my first ever flight was on one on a school trip to Rome in the mid-70s. Memorable for one of the young teachers getting pissed on the outbound flight and she had to be helped off the plane by a number of us pupils. Imagine the Daily Mail headlines if that happened on a school trip today!!
Dec 7, 2018, 10:12 am
#56
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Dec 7, 2018, 11:00 am
#57
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Sadly I am old enough although I do still have my own teeth.
In fact do remember (albeit not sure whether it was BA) checking in where seat selection was a template on a bit of card from which stickers were peeled. Might have been British Airtours actually.
Separated into smoking and non smoking of course, another blast from the past.
Smoking and Non-Smoking - gosh I'd forgotten that. When did that finally go? HI and I were very wicked. You had this back row poisoning the air in their selfishness so we used to ask for the back row. Since we did not smoke it meant that maybe the people on the other side of the cabin did, but it did not blow all over us! Not very nice of us - but then we too had to breathe!
Dec 7, 2018, 11:10 am
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Dec 7, 2018, 11:17 am
#60
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I do recall that those pathetic little armrest ashtrays were rarely emptied, though! One solid mass of butt ends and filters! I’m sure I took one to the Galley once to empty it.
Nosmo King ruled on RAFAIR, unless you could con your way onto the Flight Deck of a C-130, when suddenly life became liveable again ... and a wonderful view too!
*cough*
Last edited by T8191; Dec 7, 2018 at 11:24 am
