Holiday job
Not a holiday flight but as an impecunious student I got the best holiday job ever. A flight in a Constellation to Singapore and back as a monkey handler. General freight out so alternated between watching the world go by, visiting the flight deck, and making copious cups of tea and coffee for the crew. The crew slipped in Delhi but I continued. Arrived in Singapore for a 36 hour stay in the Raffles hotel, by the pool and shopping. The return with 1100 Rhesus monkeys and millions of tropical fish loaded in Delhi. Had to feed the monkeys at regular intervals who would make a terrible noise in daylight but would sleep at night if you turned the lights out. Not so many cups of tea and coffee for the flight deck as not welcome due to the stench you acquired from attending to the monkeys. Back at Heathrow five days after I left. Paid £50, a lot of money then, had to throw my old clothes away and bought my first car.
Probably the best holiday I ever had