Andaman From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 3752 times:
My first intercontinental flight was back in 1978, when my family flew from Helsinki, Finland to Vancouver, Canada. It was a Finnair's non stop charter flight on DC-8, it took about 10h if I remember right.
Mfricke From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 266 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 3714 times:
My first intercontinental flight was in July 1988 when I went with my high school German class to Germany for the summer. We flew an LTU L-1011 from LAX to Duesseldorf.
USAFHummer From United States of America, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 54 Reply 9, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 3681 times:
June 2001, LAX-SYD, NZ 747-400
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Salso From Slovenia, joined Dec 2004, 205 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 3675 times:
"My" first intercontinental flight was somewhere in early 1982, when my EXPECTING mom made a flight to NYC (not that I remember it though. It's the only flight she made during her pragnancy).
Does that count? No?
Well, presumably my first intercontinental flight was in 1986 (I was four) FRA-JFK. In 1990 I took that flight alone for the first time. Everything went well.
SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71 Reply 17, posted (7 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 3653 times:
July 1967
Travis AFB to Tan Son Nhut, Saigon, Vietnam with fuel stops in Honolulu and Guam.
A chicken-yellow Braniff DC-8.
EurofleetLHR From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2005, 101 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (7 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 3644 times:
1st November 1982
NW043 Boeing 747-151 N602US London (Gatwick) - Boston
connecting to
NW043 Douglas DC-10-30 N145US Boston - Minneapolis/St Paul
connecting to
NW225 Boeing 727-251 N298US Minneapolis/St Paul - Los Angeles
all on the same day. Certainly taught me what jet-lag was all about - though still managed to be at the Theme Building at LAX by 0900 the next morning !
LTBEWR From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12333 posts, RR: 12 Reply 19, posted (7 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 3628 times:
October 1983. JFK-LGW, on a charter airline (Global International Airlines I think) 707 (ex-AA). Terrible flight, fully booked, window seat, seat pitch for midgets, poor food, can't recall of any IFE, didn't sleep at all.
Return flight was much better. Charter space on a TWA 747 LHR-JFK. Not full, much better seat pitch, food & IFE ok, a much better experience than flight over.
ZRH From Switzerland, joined Nov 1999, 5540 posts, RR: 40 Reply 21, posted (7 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 3623 times:
1974 with Icelantic/Loftleidir. Luxemburg-Reykjavik-Washington (or NYC?) on B-707. It was the cheapest trans atlantic flight in those days (I am not anymore sure if it was to Washington or New York, was a very young teen and not yet into aviation).
Longhornmaniac From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 3094 posts, RR: 48 Reply 22, posted (7 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 3618 times:
June 1991, I was 2 and a half. DFW-LGW. AA DC-10-30. The only thing I remember is sitting on the left side of the plane (in a window of course) and being thirsty because I ate fritos. Its funny the stuff you remember.
FRA - BLA (Barcelona/Venezuela) in 1991
On the scheduled return BLA - SDQ - MUC - FRA the a/c went tech on the leg to SDQ and became AOG @ SDQ for 20 hours. A temp sensor for one engine had to be flown in from the U.S. before we could continue our flight. We (370 pax) got accomodated for one night in a number of hastily rented hotels in the area of Boca Chica (of course w/o our luggage). Once the flight resumed, the planned stop at MUC was omitted (favourable for me).
to date: 50 sectors flown intercontinental
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27 AeroMexico777: IBERIA 6400/6401 MEX-MAD-MEX I remember that the airplane left really late (about two hours late), no apologies, service sucked and the aircraft was O
28 JoseMEX: MEX-SDQ-MAD and return, on an IB DC-8 in 1969 (or so I was told, I was only 3 at the time). The first intercontinental flight that i remember is that
29 HansaRostock: march 1st, 2002 LH498 FRA-MEX ... middle seat
33 Luis777: February 21th, 2002 Aeromexico MEX-CDG Boeing 767-200ER XA-JBC
34 CV990: Hi! Here are my details: Date: 1982/06/19 Airline: BA Airplane: 747-200 Registration: G-BDXG Flight: LHR/JFK Duration of flight: 7:20 minutes View Lar
35 AFC_ajax00: First flight in general, was in 1987 (I was like 1.5 yrs old) we were moving from NL to NY. KLM 747-200B (I think) AMS-JFK.
36 IB787: Mine was CO DC-10 flight MAD-EWR back in 1994, I was 12 y/o.
37 Babybus: My first intercontinental flight was: Monarch, Boeing 757, LGW-BGR-MCO, 29 November 1989. There were only 8 passengers on the outbound but the return
38 DouglasDC8: September 1985, PEOPLExpress 747, Newark-Brussels with about 500 other PEOPLE!
39 Teva: My fitrst intercontienal fl? From CDG to PPT, with a fuel stop in LAX. Aircraft? French Air force DC8 Long, but very nice flt View Large View MediumPh
41 BAViscount: December 27th 1986 LGW-BOS Northwest Orient B747 I thought that flight would never end as I had never flown for longer than about 2 hours before, but
42 AirxLiban: JFK-LHR on a British Airways 747 in May 1984. Connected to a BA Lockheed L1011 to ATH.
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