Nostalgia / history / hoarding - travel in the 70's

[farstar]

I wonder if thongs were allowed in the 1970s.

 

[moa999]

Also amazing that 20Cigs cost the same as most spirits (or a couple of cans of beer)..

Did Monarch actually fly to Australia?
Monarch is still in existence and now operates as a UK LCC mostly out of Luton (flew them last year to Nice)


The Ticket stub looks to be for a BA/TAA flight on the LHR-ADL (note the carrier code) so not sure if anything to do with Monarch, unless it was a codeshare of some sorts.

 

[defurax]

The Ticket stub looks to be for a BA/TAA flight on the LHR-ADL (note the carrier code) so not sure if anything to do with Monarch, unless it was a codeshare of some sorts.

The ticket stub was posted by opusman, that's why

 

[moa999]

The ticket stub was posted by opusman, that's why

Good point.

In any event - interested to know when Monarch flew to Australia, and whether any other British private Airlines (other than BOAC/BA and VS) flew here

 

[kermatu]

Great pics. I like the fact that the Monarch booklet asks passengers who wish to recline to be considerate of those behind them. Would be nice if there was a bit more of that today...

 

[Buzzard]

Great thread juddles, thank heavens for hoarders

I must post a picture of my BOAC Junior Jet Club book and badge that I still have from 1967.
Can't do it now as I'm sitting in a hotel lounge.

 

[kelvedon]

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We traveled on the lower one - the Britannia with propellors - from Australia to England was many stops over three days - I am still in awe of my parents for this trip - we were three kids under 6 yrs old. No such thing as IFE. How did they do it? (I know I wasn't an easy child)

There's a Monarch Britannia on display at Duxford Air Museum in England. You can go on board to see how seat 14C survived!

 

[juddles]

Good point.

In any event - interested to know when Monarch flew to Australia, and whether any other British private Airlines (other than BOAC/BA and VS) flew here

moa999, I believe this flight was a bit unusual - almost a "charter". I don't know the details but my father worked for the government with missiles or something back then - I myself was born at Woomera - the rocket/missile range in Sth Australia. I believe almost everyone on board was government.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

moa999, I believe this flight was a bit unusual - almost a "charter". I don't know the details but my father worked for the government with missiles or something back then - I myself was born at Woomera - the rocket/missile range in Sth Australia. I believe almost everyone on board was government.

Sounds like those closed US Govt charter flights from Vegas to Area 51. :shock: :shock:

I flew on a couple of B757 Monarch flights MEL/SYD vv in 1989 which I believe were G-MOND and G-DRJC during the now infamous Pilot's Dispute.

 

[kelvedon]

I flew on a couple of B757 Monarch flights MEL/SYD vv in 1989 which I believe were G-MOND and G-DRJC during the now infamous Pilot's Dispute.

Compass(mk1) leased two A300's from Monarch when they were flying as well.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Compass(mk1) leased two A300's from Monarch when they were flying as well.

According to Wikipedia the two aircraft YM leased from Monarch were VH-YMJ & VH-YMK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_Airlines_(Australia)

 

[Alh01]

How this thread brings memories flooding back! Hoarding is OK again!

Flew from SYD to KTM on a Britannia charter with Trans Meridian Airlines in 1974. The airline and crew were definitely British, but I can find no trace of them now.

It took three days to reach KTM via DRW & BKK, probably because the plane could only fly for about eight hours before one of the engines needed its oil topped up. Each morning the flight engineer had to climb a ladder up to the inner port engine with a big can of oil and refill it before we could take off.

Managed to hoard a few small things from that time, but sadly no pictures of that plane. Does anyone know where to find information about such defunct airlines?

Thanks for the memories.

 

[opusman]

Here's the menu from that flight in 1974. For economy it actually sounds pretty good!

 

[opusman]

Menu continued...

 

[OZDUCK]

I worked at Perth Airport in the early 1970's and the Monarch Airlines Britannia was a regular visitor. It used to actually stop overnight before flying onto Woomera.

We used to always find it amusing that actual "Rocket Scientists" were flown from from England by "slow" propeller planes (albeit turbo-prop) to work on a project to launch space flights. At the same time British Airways were flying a daily B747 to Perth - replacing the lovely but incredibly noisy VC10.

 

[coco50]

Don't have any old BPs etc. what has been posted is outstanding. In 1970 my wife and I were posted to Albury (ABX) NSW. We had both come from SYD. Albury was serviced by both East West Airlines and TAA. The TAA flight went SYD - CBR - ABX - MEL. The East West flight was direct. EW had a scheme called Club 25 where fares were heavily discounted if you were under 25. With both of us 22 in 1970 this was great. The return fare ABX - SYD - ABX (Club 25) was $30.40. You were issued with a paper ticket which you presented at the airport and you were issued with a handwritten BP which you then used to board the F27. You were asked if you wanted to sit in smoking or non-smoking. On the A/C you were asked if you wanted to purchase a drink from the bar.

 

[JohnK]

Ah the golden age of travel. Would have loved to have been old enough to enjoy it. People had class in those days. People had manners.

I hoard a lot of things. Some things I didn't even know I hoarded. Unfortunately the stuff hoarded is never easily accessible.

 

[juddles]

I worked at Perth Airport in the early 1970's and the Monarch Airlines Britannia was a regular visitor. It used to actually stop overnight before flying onto Woomera.

We used to always find it amusing that actual "Rocket Scientists" were flown from from England by "slow" propeller planes (albeit turbo-prop) to work on a project to launch space flights. At the same time British Airways were flying a daily B747 to Perth - replacing the lovely but incredibly noisy VC10.

Wow OZDUCK! It is amazing that someone is on this forum that had experience of those flights! My memories of them are those of a two/three year old child (ie memories built from other family member's stories). I would love any other comments / recollections you have of those flights. As a (now) aviation enthusiast and also coming from Woomera, there are very few people on the planet that have any idea what it was like back then. I am trying to piece together what exact stopovers they did - I thought it was Woomera-Darwin-Malaysia-India-Kuwait-Italy-England, or something like that, but am really not sure. I can't remember Darwin (I was a baby!!) Any comments you have would be very warmly received by me (PM?)

Cheers!
Juddles.

 

[juddles]

.....We used to always find it amusing that actual "Rocket Scientists" were flown from from England by "slow" propeller planes (albeit turbo-prop) to work on a project to launch space flights. At the same time British Airways were flying a daily B747 to Perth ....

Now that a gazillion years have passed and secret stuff isn't so secret, I sort of get the idea from my father that those flights didn't just carry pax - they carried hardware as well, which I suspect was not of a nature that British Airways would put on their commercial flights! Maybe that explains why those rocket scientists flew in such lowly fashion

 

[juddles]

Here's the menu from that flight in 1974....

opusman,

I am doing a fair bit of flying these days, and the more fancy options they invent, the more it is the same and much worse. A couple of years ago when I had to do lots of American Airlines flights they successfully managed to give me a physical phobia against warm nut snacks and balsamic vinegar dressings. It is only nice the first couple of times. I love cooking and all things food, but trust me, once you have had one too many balsamic vinegar dressings, the body revolts.

I loved the menu you posted. "Grilled fillet steak with tomato" - "Buttered French beans" - "Scones" - "Savoury omellette" - these all sound so much better than the current generation of offerings where more thought is put into a fancy description than into the cooking process itself.