Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
It was indeed £6.60. I used it just the once, while I was waiting for my BEA concessions to kick in, from which point onwards it cost me £2.20 return to go back and visit my folks, who lived in Cramond and were strong supporters of the new runway.
Explains why in mid 1972, BEA introduced a '£13.20p return' offer from Glasgow (maybe Edinburgh too?); you had to travel out and return weekends only a week apart to take advantage so I booked to go to Heathrow one saturday, hiring a car at Heathrow to visit my parents in Chesham, returning the following sunday.
No concessions for ATCOs those days; we were still Civil Servants and a concession, in the eyes of our bosses at the DoTI, could have been interpreted as being a 'bribe' to get preferential treatment for whichever airline we travelled on. (At least that was the 'official' reason)