old airline tickets

[keithh]

I was in my loft at the weekend and I came across a wallet with some of my old airline tickets so I thought that I would put them on here.


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Of these airlines, only six still exist, Air France, KLM, Aurigny, Bahamasair, CSA and British Airways. Caledonian, Skyways, British Caledonian, Dan Air, Aer Turas, Monarch, Northeast, British Island Airways, Eastern Airways, Laker, Panam, Eastern Airlines, Air Florida, Chalks, Caribbean Airways, Airlink, Continental, Mexicana, Air Europe, Air UK, Air 2000, British Midland, Airworld, Buzz (pre Ryanair), Airtours, Caribbean Star and Thomsonfly make a total of 27 now defunct airlines. Also on the KLM ticket was a return leg on BEA. Strangely I never flew Panam but I booked flights from Miami to the Bahamas before I left the UK so the Panam ticket contains the Eastern, Bahamasair and Air Florida flights but why they were in a Panam ticket, I've no idea! Since the end of paper tickets, I've flown a few more airlines that have gone like Northwest, Sky Europe, My Travel, German Wings and Norwegian Longhaul. So much has changed in the airline world since that first flight over 50 years ago.

[Jeff]

Fantastic collection 👍🏻

[keithh]

There were some great aircraft in amongst the modern Boeing and Airbus types, many never to be seen again alas.

[graham]

Wow, the 1972 Washington trip tickets!

[billsamuels]

Well done Keith.

Great collection of tickets and some fantastic old names…

What aircraft type was the Czech Airways to Bahrain, mid 90’s feels like western types?

I never really kept a great deal of mine. Nowadays these things are but a memory, so we’ll done for keeping them.

Bill

[keithh]

The LHR Prague leg was a 737-500 and the Bahrain leg was a Tu154 via Damascus and we had exactly the same aircraft coming back. In Damascus there were Syrian Air aircraft parked everywhere including Tu134s, Tu154 and a DC6!

[keithh]

Dec 2, 2021 18:29:43 GMT graham said:

Wow, the 1972 Washington trip tickets!

Happy days, it would be great to do another group trip like that one

[graham]

It'll be the fiftieth anniversary of that trip next May/June, seems like ten minutes ago.

How are you getting on with PlaneBase?

[keithh]

I’m not, it’s stopped me doing downloads and after lots of tooing and froing with Malcolm the moderator,it still doesn’t work. I’ve asked Catherine to have a look for me because I don’t have a clue with computers but if she can’t sort it out I may as well Jack it in and save my money