Originally Posted by
olympus
Second foreign holiday in 1969 (with the same girl) was to Majorca flying to Palma, again in a Britannia this time from LGW but I can't remember the carrier. I do remember sitting on the ramp at PMI casting envious glances at the Channel Airways Trident on the adjacent stand! It was the height of modernity compared with our Britannia.
Caledonian (most likely), Donaldson and Lloyd were basing Britannias at Gatwick in 1969. They lasted just a year or two longer - the same as Channel Airways did !
Own first foreign holiday with a girl (given that various here seem to be rekindling some very old memories of same) was a bit later, to San Francisco. PSA 727-200 from LAX. First I ever saw of the Boeing "new look" interior.