First Ever flight?

[simongr]

Birmingham to Majorca in 1978. I think it was probably a Thompson holidays thingo. I was 7...

 

[codash1099]

IIRC, my first flight (ignoring the joyride I had as a kid in a Catalina) was in an ANA (or was it Ansett-ANA by then) DC6B from PER to MEL and then on to BNE in 1961. Pretty comfortable as I remember.

 

[Hvr]

First commercial flight was a school trip in 1978.

Melbourne to Launceston on Ansett and then home from Hobart to Melbourne. It was all so exciting and I still have the group ticket somewhere. I think the price per person was $12.

I do remember one of my school mates asking for a beer and the hostess (as they were called then ) asked for some ID. He had a soft drink.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Some people are showing their age.

First flight was me was Brisbane to Auckland before I was a year old so I don't remember a thing.

The first flight I can remember was 1980 Brisbane to Auckland on a Qantas 747. Our family had the middle 4 seats and I remember the old Brisbane International terminal where you had to board the plane via stairs and the landing/breaking of the plane once we landed at Auckland.

 

[maggies1]

Back in 1994 Mum and I went on a world trip. My first o/s trip. We were so excited to be in a 747 off to Hong Kong. We had good economy seats down the side as I remember, may have been near the crew rest area. After a 3 day stop over we were in our seats to go to Bangkok and a man approached and said we were in his seats. I showed him the boarding passes and said I don't think so!. He went and got the steward to sort it out. Steward came down and said we were too quick for him at the gate and we had been upgraded to business class. Well, you have never seen 2 women move so fast. And we were lowly NB. We joined QFF for the trip. We had a fabulous 8 weeks travelling Europe and Great Britain and the USA. We did the transatlantic on the QE2 in a force 8 gale and we were banned from going outside for 3 days due to the weather and sea state. I still think about this trip with very fond memories.

 

[anat0l]

I can't remember exact dates. But I have memories...

I was travelling when I was nine months old - I believe that was first trip to Malaysia and Philippines, with stops also in Hong Kong and Singapore.

I used to travel quite often - at least once every year - when I was a munchkin. I still remember when PR used to operate BNE-MNL using either a 744 or DC-10 aircraft (pretty much the only DC-10s in the Asia-Pacific region!). I still remember the old BNE international terminal on Lomandra Drive - the old tin shed with six standoff gates. I used to complain how in BNE we had to board via the tarmac, yet in (almost) everywhere else we went there were aerobridges! (Now I sometimes miss the days when I can board or disembark using stairs)

I used to remember when Economy meals were more generous and tasted quite good - as kids, my sister and I used to eat everything (sans the bread roll) and really enjoy it.

My first Qantas flight was MNL-BNE I think when I was 6 or 7 years old.

I (we) joined QFF in 1994 when we went to the US (and my parents insisted on my salutation being "Master"). BNE-SYD on Australian Airlines, SYD-HNL-SFO on QF, then SFO-LAS-MCO on America West, then back home MCO-PHX-LAX on America West, then LAX-SYD-BNE on QF. Back then, QFF had only two levels of status - Silver and Gold - the lowest status was White, you could only get points on BA if you flew J or F, and points were measured in kilometres, not miles.

I flew QF one more time, I believe, in 1997. Then I didn't fly QF again until 2005.

During all of these years, I'm surprised - and perhaps disappointed - I never flew AN.

 

[2muchplastic]

Birmingham to Majorca in 1978. I think it was probably a Thompson holidays thingo. I was 7...

Ah, simongr that makes you the same vintage as me. Bottled (or unbottled!) circa 1971?
Majorca in 1978 would have been pretty quiet compared to what it's like now too...

 

[nlagalle]

My first flight was on Ansett back in 1989 to Hobart for a school Trip. Can't remember what aircraft I was on!

1991 was on Compass from memory going to Sydney and back.

My first INT flight was in 1995, QF9 to London! I still remember that one!!

 

[jwak]

First domestic was TAA 727 Mel-Per in 1970 aged 1. Remember first O/S well. MEL-AKL-HNL-LAX-SFO (38 hours door to door) on Continental....

 

[Flashback]

First flight I was on, was a PER-ADL when I was very young (less than 1 year old maybe?).

First flight I remember, was in 1996 on a 737 PER-ADL, was a mystery flight on the Red Roo.

 

[mysavings789]

Would you believe my friend's first flight is truly amazing? I don't know if this happen to you before. She used to get economy seat but the stewardess give her business class seat instead.