chipster

20, at university. 1984 Trip to Greek islands with some mates for my 21st. This required a train from New St to Gatwick Airport for a flight to Athens on an airline I can't remember. Had to make use of the sick bag during the flight due to the turbulence or the few shandys beforehand. Overnight boats to the islands from Piraeus including birthday on Santorini (no airport there at the time I don't think), on arrival in Naxos, the nice Greek lady had sold on our accommodation that had been booked weeks beforehand by a travel agent because the boat was 2 hours late so we had to sleep on the roof. Fantastic time. I think flying to Santorini would be far less exciting than a trip via Athens and Piraeus, if that is not a heresy on here.

RoyalSwazi

I was around 15 months old, hence I can’t remember my very first trip which was OSL-AMS-BAH. The first leg was either SAS or KLM, most likely on a DC-9, followed by Qantas on a 747. The first long flight I can remember was the summer before I turned 10, OSL-CPH-BRU-LIS-MPM. The first three legs were in business with SAS (still remember the reg: OY-KGB) on. DC9-41, second leg Sabena on a 737-200 convertible, third leg TAP on a 727. We somehow got downgraded on the last leg to Maputo on a TP 707, and upon arrival the embassy had misplaced our visas and we were put in detention for a few hours.

Greenpen

The first flight was from Bermuda to New York, carried by my mother. The first I can remember was in an RAF Chipmunk from Exeter Airport; I was sick.

Later, and strangely still in the RAF school cadet force, I managed to avoid a flight in a Hercules by deliberately confusing the GMT used in a control tower with the real time.

Hated flying; when forced to do it for work I used to fly to GLA but come back by train. However, I evolved to love it, I still find looking down on clouds a magical experience.

nordic

PanAm B707 HEL-JFK charter flight in the late 70’s. All passengers were exchange students spending the summer sowhere in the US. It was my fourth flight ever.

DYKWIA

My first recollection of flying was that planes don't have gears! Hurtling down the runway I was expecting it to be going up through the gears, but it was a smooth acceleration.

TheBigRat

Braniff 727 to DFW - 1978.
was supposed to be going to Iran (Boy Scout Jamboree) but due to political issues at the time, we were sent to the USA ..

Howard Long

About 1970, LGW-IBZ-LGW on Britannia, probably one of my first memories I can still remember glimpses of, including the seemingly interminable (for a 5yo) 2 hours in the air.

I remember complaining to my father about why we couldn't fly from EMA, our local airport: it seemed so ridiculous to have to get up at 2am to travel down to LGW.

jfkeze

Fitting my username from JFK to EZE before I was two... I think Aerolíneas on either a 742 or 747SP (I truly hope it was a SP). I had several flights with AR in the late 80 early 90s... I did fly a VASP 743 in the early 90s.

zanderblue

1975, Air Anglia on a Fokker F28 ( I think). ABZ- AMS.

southsquare

Hi DYKWIA,

What software/website are you using for that record of flights. It looks straightforward - I'd like to try it. Could you either post details or PM.

Thanks.

DYKWIA

Have a look here :-

Introducing MyFlightPath.club - flights tracker and shared calendar for BA flyers

T8191

Or https://www.ba97.com/home.asp

The only one I managed to get my records back to the Dark Ages of piston-engined TATL! Even if the USAF did manage to lock our food in the hold with no access for the CC!

geo1005

My first BA flight was 216 IAD-LHR in the early 1990s. I love that route's flight number 216/217 remains to this day.
Also early 90's was BA's MIA service briefly operated with a 747-200 upper deck cabin that was all coach - as a low-budget (yet somewhat savvy) traveler I loved scoring the front row of coach on that upper deck.

Charleston Tom

October 1964. TWA 707 from JFK to Rome and then on later that day to Brindisi courtesy of an Alitalia prop.. All thanks to the USAF. The movie was Zulu, still one of my favorites and had a middle seat in economy. At 19 none of these things bothered me. Return flight in Aug 1966. was delayed by a TWA staff strike. Currently in France waiting to see if I get a “three fer” if BA manages to cancel my flight from TLS for a third time.

CKBA

I must admit, my first flight was not BA, it was TWA755 from LHR-PHL on 11 August 1986. I was relatively 'old' by then (my parents always perferred overland/sea travel to European destinations - even if it took a day or so to get there!). The thing I remember about that flight was i) the bus to LHR showed Airplane, and ii) upon arrival, the 'international terminal' was a hanger - we deplaned on a stairway, walked over to the hanger which had a few desks spread around - that was 'immigration', then we picked our bags off the luggage trolleys. Oh, the seat number was 30-6 (yes, 'pre'-letters).
The return was BA216 from IAD-LHR on 21 August. I remember seeing concorde taking off from the viewing deck (which at that time was below the control tower). The nice thing was that as soon as I was onboard it was like being back home - and they made a decent brew in a proper (china) mug - this was economy as well!