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Old 5th Aug 2011, 22:06
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Halcyon Days
 
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I was BOAC cabin crew for a few years. Operated on Standard and Super VC.10s as well as 436/336 and Freighter 707s.
SEPs were a nightmare as you had to remember the safety drills/stowages etc for all the variants.
Did a couple of services for Air Mauritius-doing shuttles between Nairobi and Mauritius.
Also did several 591s (round the world trips) which took 3 weeks. On one memorable occasion-during the 6 day war ?-I think it was-the service took twice as long-so we had a 6 week trip-as BOAC reduced the service to every other day due to fuel shortages -instead of daily. Route was London/New York/Los Angeles/Honolulu/Fiji/Sydney/we then airlined on Air NZ to Auckland/ then Auckland/Sydney/Melbourne/Darwin/Hong Kong/Delhi/Dubai and home. Had a week off as normal rest-and then got called out on standby to do another one. Tough-but someone had to do it.A great life if you were young and single
Still got my log books of all my trips-with a/c reg/route etc.
It was a great company to work for in those days and you felt proud to be part of it.
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