60 years flying with BA!
Jun 21, 2019, 6:21 pm
#16
Join Date: Oct 2009
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17/12/1968 Helsinki-Heathrow on a Comet 4C. Aged 18 amazed at how small the aeroplane seemed to be but also in how many people got on board. A bit nervous with it being my first flight.
Jun 21, 2019, 6:58 pm
#17
Join Date: Dec 2009
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1964 with BKS (later absorbed into BEA) from Newcastle to Paris in a Britannia. 1968 MAN-SOU (I think it was with BEA) in an Elizabethan (4 piston engines). Then from 1971 for a few years frequently between GLA or EDI and LHR, initially mostly in Vanguards, and occasional NCL-LHR in Viscounts. But my first flight was in a KLM Super Constellation in 1960.
Jun 21, 2019, 7:03 pm
#18
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I'll take a stab at that.
July 9, 1969, BE425 AMS-LHR, on a Vanguard.
July 16, BA605 LHR-PIK on a beautiful 707. Yes, a BOAC domestic flight.
July 9, 1969, BE425 AMS-LHR, on a Vanguard.
July 16, BA605 LHR-PIK on a beautiful 707. Yes, a BOAC domestic flight.
Jun 21, 2019, 7:31 pm
#19
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As per the Dan Air thread (I will claim Dan Air as being part of BA), I'll be coming up to 50 years flying in 2022 - considering doing the same package deal as I did then (Clarksons to the Messonghi Beach Hotel in Corfu in 1972 on a Comet 4C) with the family as a small celebration of that.
I do hope BA are looking at the 60+ year club with a view to doing something special for the 100 year celebrations.
I do hope BA are looking at the 60+ year club with a view to doing something special for the 100 year celebrations.
Jun 22, 2019, 1:31 am
#20
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Jun 22, 2019, 1:35 am
#21
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Jun 22, 2019, 1:37 am
#22
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Jun 22, 2019, 3:25 am
#23
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To my surprise, I didn't fly with BA (or BEA or BOAC!) until 1988. That was BKK-SYD in J, paid for by MoD as I was on a duty trip. From my first journey in 1963, including TATL on a DC-6 [yes, propellors and piston engines] I seemed to have managed 25 years without BA. 
All different now, of course.
All different now, of course.
Jun 22, 2019, 4:51 am
#25
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Reading this, someone needs to start a BAEC FT retirement home, so they call sit around in the common room harrumphing about the longest flight and or who did the most flights as well as complaining about failing tea standards.
The carers can wear old BEA or BOAC uniforms and bring meals out on trays, so the poor old boys and girls still think they are on a work trip to Bombay or on the kangaroo route to Darwin.....
The carers can wear old BEA or BOAC uniforms and bring meals out on trays, so the poor old boys and girls still think they are on a work trip to Bombay or on the kangaroo route to Darwin.....
Jun 22, 2019, 7:33 am
#26
Join Date: Mar 2019
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I grew up in the North East and my father tells me this morning that my first flight took place in 1964 from MME (then Middleton St George, now Durham Tees Valley, previously RAF Middleton St George) to LHR aboard a British Midland Elizabethan. Mr Google isn't clear that BM ever operated Elizabethans but my father is usually pretty good on this sort of thing. I might just have been 3 at the time. The airport had a dedicated railway station and we almost certainly went to the airport on the train.
Jun 22, 2019, 7:56 am
#27
Join Date: Feb 2010
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Jun 22, 2019, 9:04 am
#28
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Didn't realise I was this old.
Man - LHR 1962 certainly BEA.
Man Jer via Bournemouth 1960 ish on a DC9?- no idea who that was!
3/5 return flights a week in the 80's pre-exec club which at those prices would surely give me Gold for life. LOL
Man - LHR 1962 certainly BEA.
Man Jer via Bournemouth 1960 ish on a DC9?- no idea who that was!
3/5 return flights a week in the 80's pre-exec club which at those prices would surely give me Gold for life. LOL
Jun 22, 2019, 9:45 am
#29
Join Date: Nov 2010
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Reading this, someone needs to start a BAEC FT retirement home, so they call sit around in the common room harrumphing about the longest flight and or who did the most flights as well as complaining about failing tea standards.
The carers can wear old BEA or BOAC uniforms and bring meals out on trays, so the poor old boys and girls still think they are on a work trip to Bombay or on the kangaroo route to Darwin.....
The carers can wear old BEA or BOAC uniforms and bring meals out on trays, so the poor old boys and girls still think they are on a work trip to Bombay or on the kangaroo route to Darwin.....