Originally Posted by
ATNotts
I'm sure they wouldn't!! Mind you, today you would be hard pressed to find airline offices you could walk into and pick up timetables, postcards and the like from. As for getting on your bike and riding a few miles to your local airport at the age of 11 as I used to do to BHX would have 21st century parents going into apoplexy!!
Thank heavens for the internet, FR24 and Mum's taxi these days! Without them aviation as hobby would have died out by now.
my friend and I took mum’s taxi and bikes to the local airport one step further in 1989.
aged 14 we asked at the Dan Air ticket desk at NCL how much a day return to LGW was. At £79 it was quite affordable with a few weeks paper round money so a few weeks later off we went to LGW for a day of “spotting” and collecting timetables, baggage labels etc.
Had a great time but agreed 21st century parents, including myself, would never let this happen now! .