And now BA is trying to make it very ordinary!
'Twas one of the pleasures having youngsters visit the FD and twirl the Heading knob- some were really stunned to think they actually controlled the aeroplane. In those days most of us carried postcards, stickers and whatever else there was for the kids that an increasingly parsimonious airline would let us have to give away. Unbelievably, they disappeared in a succession of 'profit drives'.
I used to get annoyed when a request 'to bring a child up' resulted incredibly with a man carrying a baby onto the FD, as if they would get anything out of the visit! We invariably would- the aroma of a soiled nappy filling the FD! It happened so often I had to start asking the brat's age before agreeing.
All history now!