Your first ever flight

[Eric Mc]

Ah - nothing like the good old days.

[Coolbananas]

Eric Mc said:

Ah - nothing like the good old days.

For the airline I first flew on, certainly. Prefer now to the past though in pretty much everything else.

[borcy]

Sometime in the late 80s I flew out to spain. I honestly can't remember any details about it.

[aspender]

BA BAC1-11 flight from Heathrow to Heathrow in 1986.

With Patrick Moore on board chasing Halley’s Comet.

I was 10 and had no idea it was happening. We were visiting my aunt and uncle in Harmondsworth as far as I knew!

[djc206]

My first would most likely have been Cyprus Airways to Paphos some time in summer ‘86. I was a couple of months old so don’t recall the type. Looking at their fleet list on wiki the candidates are B707, BAC one-eleven or A310.

[JuniorD]

aspender said:

BA BAC1-11 flight from Heathrow to Heathrow in 1986.

With Patrick Moore on board chasing Halley’s Comet.

I was 10 and had no idea it was happening. We were visiting my aunt and uncle in Harmondsworth as far as I knew!

Future trips to see the relatives in Harmondsworth would never be quite the same

[Riley Blue]

Having read the years in which other first flights occurred I feel as if I cadged a lift with the Wright Brothers (see my previous post).

[Kenty]

16-9-1974
Singapore to London via Kuwait, i had arrived in Singapore on my first ship
after joining Shell Tanker Marticia in Liverpool for my first trip.
Quite an adventure

[aspender]

JuniorD said:

Future trips to see the relatives in Harmondsworth would never be quite the same

They are still there. Until the third runway...

[Kenty]

Riley Blue said:

A couple of years in Lincolnshire at RAF Strubby and I soon knew a Field Marshall from a Fordson Major

Flew out of Strubby many times, going offshore on a 365n helicopter

[Glosphil]

I've noticed flights to/from Singapore mentioned.
My first was in 1958 by BOAC Britianna - took 32 hours including 4 (or was it 5?) stops.
A year later in a BOAC Comet - 23 hours (with 4 stops?).
3 of the 4 flights had technical problems.

[Eric Mc]

aspender said:

BA BAC1-11 flight from Heathrow to Heathrow in 1986.

With Patrick Moore on board chasing Halley’s Comet.

I was 10 and had no idea it was happening. We were visiting my aunt and uncle in Harmondsworth as far as I knew!

Did you catch up with the comet?

[Composer62]

I think it was 1967. Aer Lingus, Edinburgh to Dublin. Possibly in a Trident ??

[Dr Jekyll]

Composer62 said:

I think it was 1967. Aer Lingus, Edinburgh to Dublin. Possibly in a Trident ??

Maybe a 727?

[Composer62]

Dr Jekyll said:

Composer62 said:

I think it was 1967. Aer Lingus, Edinburgh to Dublin. Possibly in a Trident ??

Maybe a 727?

Yes, could well have been. I was only 5 at the time, so recollection a bit hazy

[Eric Mc]

Dr Jekyll said:

Composer62 said:

I think it was 1967. Aer Lingus, Edinburgh to Dublin. Possibly in a Trident ??

Maybe a 727?

No to either. Aer Lingus operated neither type. In 1967, the workhorse of Aer Lingus was the Viscount 803 or 808. They also had four BAC 1-11 208s. Aer Lingus definitely did use their 1-11s on their Glasgow and Edinburgh flights at that time.

Viscount



BAC 1-11

[Biker's Nemesis]

1978. Newcastle to Spain. I stuck the flight tickets into a book which must still be knocking around somewhere.

I also have a photo of me taken as I was leaving the plane.

Things seemed more exciting back then.

[filski666]

1998 BA from Heathrow to Moscow.

Had to wait 23 years to get my first flight!

[s1962a]

Countdown said:

PIA747 from London Heathrow to Islamabad on 29 July 1981.

I can remember driving through the outskirts of London in the back of a Ford Transit quite clearly. There were flags flying, bunting on the roads, and Cliff Richard's "Congratulations" playing non-stop (seemingly) on the radio. i was quite young at the time and assumed this was the normal public reaction when Pakistanis flew back to Pakistan.

It was only much later that i realised that it was Charles' and Diana's wedding day.

We might be a similar age. I remember flying very often (maybe yearly) from Heathrow to Karachi, but on the cheaper middle eastern airlines like Syrian, or Gulf air which had stops in their respective countries. I remember Abu Dhabi airport back then was in the middle of a desert with absolutely nothing around it. I think we flew Aeroflot once but no idea for what reason - being an asian/Pakistani kid, the only holidays seemed to be to Pakistan. My first flight on my own was in the late 90's.

[forsure]

Going slightly off topic, I remember my second ever flight very well (I think).

It was LHR to Luxembourg in a British Eagle Britannia, in 1966.

As I recall, all the seats in the aircraft faced rearwards. The next year I flew in a Britannia Airways Britannia which had conventional seating.