[Travel] First and last flights

GT49er · Jan 22, 2021

wellquickwoody said:
Is that through circumstance or conscious decision?

Never had the inclination (or the money) for foreign holidays when I was younger. Fancied the idea of flying less and less as the years passed by. With a (acquired) condition that now affects my hearing, it would probably be a pretty unpleasant experience anyway.

FamilyGuy · Jan 22, 2021

First: 1964 Luton to Majorca, Monarch Airlines, holiday with my grandparents

Last to date: October 2019, return from Antigua to Gatwick, Virgin, after a couple of weeks at Sandals.

The Mole · Jan 22, 2021

First flight: Luton to Grenoble 1977 a French exchange - no idea who we flew with
Last flight jan 2020 Cape Town to Manchester with Air France

Next one... who knows had four flights cancelled in the last ten months

Sussexscots · Jan 22, 2021

First one would have been from Gatwick to Guernsey. I remember sod all about it because it was in 1965 and I was a year old.

Last one was February 2020 from Gatwick to Edinburgh. Went to see Edinburgh Rugby v Free State Cheetahs and Hibs v Livingston.

Used to flying up there maybe half a dozen times a season. Lord knows when it'll happen again. Might even go back to using the sleeper train.

Deportivo Seagull · Jan 22, 2021

First: 1970 Luton to Santiago de Compostela, Courtline, Holiday.
Last: 12/12/2019, Munich to LHR, BA, work.

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Happy Exile · Jan 22, 2021

First: 1993 Headcorn airfield in Kent for a parachute jump (didn't land in the first plane I went up in)
Last: October 2019 Muscat, Oman to LHR returning from a work trip

Tribsa · Jan 22, 2021

Manston to Bremen, Autair Vickers Viking 1967.

Gatwick to Tobago , Monarch A330 2009

getz · Jan 22, 2021

First flight. Heathrow to Stockholm July 1966. British European Airways. First week of the World Cup. A return trip to stay with our Swedish student(male).

Last flight. 2019. EasyJet to Verona to visit Lake Garda.

Tribsa · Jan 22, 2021

Cowfold Seagull said:
That would almost certainly have been a Dan Air HS748, which the airline continued to operate well after their sell by date, from Gatwick to Berne. I remember flying on one from Gatwick to Jersey in the mid 80's, great fun!

Dan Air were an unusual airline, operating a wide variety of somewhat elderly aircraft types, including the Comet 4B, one of which flew into the mountainside whilst attempting to land in Tenerife.

Sadly it was a Boeing 727 that crashed in Tenerife, caused by Pilot and ATC error. it happened in April 1980.

Garage_Doors · Jan 22, 2021

First Gatwick Majorca cira 1985.
Last Chicago to Gatwick. Feb 2020, was due to go back several times last year, Plan to go back as soon as travel allows.

Return of the Rev · Jan 22, 2021

First flight Miami 1979

Last flight Crete 2015 :moo:

Knocky's Nose · Jan 23, 2021

First : Manchester-Tunisia - 1982. Thomson Holiday. Economy.

Last : Heathrow-Boston - January 2020. British Airways First - (thanks to Amex for the 2-4-1 voucher, and Avios for the points - both earned over the year spending on cards)

Next : Somewhere cheap with easyJet or similar to get some sun on my bones. I really don't care.

Vankleek Hill Seagull · Jan 23, 2021

First: 31st May 1998 - London-Heathrow (LHR) to Toronto (YYZ) - Canadian Airlines - 5 weeks training for 1st day at new job (which I'm still doing after 22.5 years).
Last: 8th March 2020 - Fort Lauderdale (FLL) to Toronto (YYZ) - WestJet - Long weekend to catch up with a good friend and his family.

Robinjakarta · Jan 23, 2021

First: 21 September 1976, Gatwick to Palma, Mallorca, Dan-Air (awful: hours late, inedible food etc) Comet (OK. First and last chance to fly on one), package deal with Intasun (awful) on honeymoon (awful)

Last: 16 December 2020, Istanbul to Jakarta, Turkish Airlines B787-9 (all fine)

Robinjakarta · Jan 23, 2021

Albion_Dave said:
1989 Gatwick to Dominican Republic, Monarch Airways. Amazing it had a smoking area at the back of the plane.

The last I recall with smoking like that was Philippine Airlines 1998 or so.

Stumpy Tim · Jan 23, 2021

Not sure when my first flight was, but pretty sure it was Heathrow or Gatwick to Gibraltar in the mid-80´s. My last flight was Madrid to Gatwick on March 10th last year, the day Madrid announced their lockdown. I shared that flight with lots of Athletico Madrid fans going to the Liverpool game...

Klaas · Jan 23, 2021

I have a picture of my first birthday at my Spanish nan's so that would have been 1973. Last one was Jan 2020.

A few posts on here about smoking on flights. I went to the Domincan Republic from Madrid (living there at time) in 2003 and that flight still had a smoking section at the back. Spanish airline. I remember not believing it at the time.

Mayonaise · Jan 23, 2021

First: British Caledonian to Jersey 1970s

Last: JFK New York 2019

patchamalbion · Jan 23, 2021

First: Heathrow to Barbados, November 1987, BA

Last: Berlin to Heathrow, September 2020

Knotty · Jan 23, 2021

1957 Lydd-Ostend Silver City Airways
2019 Faro-London Gatwick British Airways

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