brakedwell

And lots of noise too!

pulse1

I would love to see (and hear) Spantax bring their Coronados into EGHH again. Lots of black smoke and noise and a good chance of a burst tyre or two as well.

For flights on defunct airlines I flew in a Brittania from Tunisia on one of British Eagle's last flights. The passengers who came out on our aircraft were standed there.

surely not

Well first by a long way is British Caledonian. Great service, great colour scheme, great uniform for the girls and great girls. First UK airline with a 3 class service I think?

Then British Eagle also get an honourable mention.

Air Europe scheduled service was really good, as was Dan-Air.

JFA from Portsmouth to Jersey with Twin Pioneers was an experience never to be repeated!!

Netherlines had some really sexy female cabin crew on their J31's

BWA was a good airline with great camaraderie and adapted brilliantly to all the differing types of flying they did.

aerobelly

Laker in the late 1970's: I could do a day's work near NYC, and then take my own bottle of wine aboard which they'd open FOC. The scrum at Gatwick a week later to get back wasn't so great though. And too early for drinking ...

Suckling in the mid 1990's: the Cambridge end would accept a phone report of deteriorating weather from Amsterdam dockland and say "Get to Schipol as fast as you can and we'll get you back." They did too.

It was /so/ nice to be greated by name by Suckling's desk staff in Cambridge at Oh-dark-50 on Monday morning for the flight out as I arrived 10 minutes before boarding.


And whoever flew Viscounts from Wick to Glasgow via Inverness in 1969. My first ever flight. In brilliantly clear sky, no higher than 2000 AGL all the way, and those huge Viscount windows!


'b

bluefishbeagle

I second that I always looked forward to turbulance when flying Hooters.

Jean-Lill

Bring back the Bristol Freighter, that was the first aircraft I was employed on as a flight attendant for 6 months, which was just before they were withdrawn from car air ferry use.

Can still remember the noise on take-off.

I continued to fly for another 35 years with another airline after that.

T-21

People Express Boeing747
Intra Airways DC-3
Dan-Air Comet 4,BAC 1-11,Boeing 727
Britannia Boeing 737
Orion Boeing 737
Air Europe Boeing 757

bmibaby319

XL!

Would increase UK Air Traffic!!

merlinxx

ACE Frighteners I just love to to get down & dirty

Jean-Lill just when the lower clasp on the nose came unlatched @ 200ft into Le Touquet

The SSK

Jean-Lill Didn't the Bristol Freighter have a ladder for flight deck access? I knew someone who'd been a flight attendant on them, told me stories of inviting pretty girls in skirts to visit the flight deck while he stood underneath.

merlinxx

Tmbstory

I thiught that the upstairs first class lounge in the KLM 747 on the South East Asian runs in the 1970's was about as good as you could get.


Tmb

superspotter

I suppose what everyone reminisces about here really is the age when flying was an adventure, something to be relished pre-RYR days etc.....
I admit to not reading all the posts on this thread but two names that caught my eye encited me into this riposte
KLM.
I remember as a 15 year old flying on one of their DC-10's from AMS-NBO and receiving an elegant card proclaiming the fact that I had crossed the equator with KLM Nice little touches like that disappeared many many moons ago

UTA.
This memory was a little ruder so I apologise in advance....
03rd January 1977, UTA DC-8 F-BOLM Lusaka-CDG, just turned 15yo, acne challenged and full of these new hormone thingies. I took my window seat and this thing of beauty i.e. the stewardess (that's what they were called back then) wearing this figure hugging light blue ribbed type jumper, kindly offered to stow my bag in the overhead locker. Now, it may have been the strategically placed aircon vents had something to do with it but as she proceeded to push home the offending bag into the overhead locker with both arms raised, I was subjected to this wonderous sight of a pair of the most exquisite female attachments I was ever to behold, I literally could have hung my coat on the proffered extensions there and then
One of those few memories ever to make one huge impact in one's life

brakedwell

Did it have any impact on the acne superspotter?

superspotter

Only to make it more of a deep red hue than it already was