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Lighthearted stress-relieving thread (loosely BA connected ...)

Lighthearted stress-relieving thread (loosely BA connected ...)

Old Jun 2, 2020, 9:43 am
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Keeping in with the lighthearted thread

Unless you can relate to the recent Dominic Cummings issues in the UK media recently this may not make much sense.



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Old Sep 21, 2020, 3:18 am
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From The Times Archive, 20 Sep 1920

Those were the days [apparently!]. No IFE [bring your own copy of The Times?] and no Catering to complain about [bring your own sandwiches?].

The Times - 20 September 1920

During 18 weeks recently about 3,500 passengers have traveled by aeroplane instead of by boat and train between London and the Continent. In the last month, for which figures are avail- able, the air travellers in and out, from the two "ports" of Croydon and Cricklewood, numbered just over 1,000. On a single day, lately, the "air expresses " departing for, and arriving from, the terminal aerodromes of Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam carried more than 60 passengers, in addition to mails and urgently-consigned parcels. The recent reduction in the fare for the air journey from 16 guineas to 10 guineas, as between London and Paris, brought a material increase in traffic. For next spring and summer, when the single London- Paris fare may be only seven guineas, plans are being made already on the assumption that air passenger traffic will he more than doubled. A 7 7s. air fare to Paris will mean that passengers are obtaining air transport at as great in average speed as 100 miles an hour, accompanied by motor-car transport between air-stations and cities, at a rate which works out at only a fraction over 7d. a milc. Specially designed passenger aeroplanes have lately been put on these Continental " airways," and have proved far more comfortable and attractive than the converted war machines with which the services began last year. One new "air express," placed lately on the service between London and Paris, carries a pilot and eight passengers at a maximum speed, near the ground, of 130 miles an hour. The passengers in this machine are accommodated in arm-chair scats, luxuriously padded. The saloon they occupy is totally enclosed, and quite draught-proof, and there are wide side windows from which they obtain a full view of the panorama below. A sound-deadening partition between engine and saloon reduces the noise, even when this machine is rushing through tho air at more than two miles a minute, to just about what is usual in a tube train. Conversation may be carried on easily between passengers sitting near each other. Though the schedule time on the London-Paris airway is 2 hours from Croydon to Le Bourget, this new " express " flies so fast that it frequently makes the journey in two hours; or even less. This means that, allowing for motor-car connexions between cities and air-ports, and, passing through Customs, passengers may on occasion travel right through, from the steps of an hotel in London to those of another in Paris, in a total of not more than four hours- a saving of, say, six hours over a door-to-door journey as made by land and sea. That these new fast " expresses " have appreciable money-earning power is shown by figures taken haphazard from a time-sheet, which is typical of recent Continental flying. The machine in question left on the 9.30 am. service to Paris with five passengers, and came back the same afternoon with seven passengers on the 4.30 p.m. service from Paris, having flown about 480 miles between breakfast and dinner, and taken 126 in fares - reckoning each passenger at the present 10-guinea rate.
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Old Sep 21, 2020, 5:36 am
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Originally Posted by T8191
Those were the days [apparently!]. No IFE [bring your own copy of The Times?] and no Catering to complain about [bring your own sandwiches?].
I do appreciate an enclosed and draught-proof saloon.
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Old Sep 21, 2020, 7:15 am
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From http://www.airportofcroydon.com/Instone%20Airlines.html



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