Which Airline / Aircraft Served Your First Flight?

airbus340313x · Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:37 pm

For me it was in April 1986, and it was an TAP Air Portugal L1011-500 from YMX to LIS, long time ago....!

a3xx900 · Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:37 pm

Mine was on Aug. 8th 1988 (8.8.88 *g*) on one of those:

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MUC-DJE
maybe it even was exactly this one.

I don't remember the flight (I was only 4 years old) but that date i will always remember Smile

Btblue · Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:48 pm

First flight was when I was 20! A 40 minute pleasure flight on a BY 737 from Nottingham East Midlands. I remember the excitement of take-off and landing - fantastic. Just can't stop flying now!

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airjampanam · Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:52 pm

1975 Pan Am 707 is what my memory tells me, but a search shows DC8's on the route from KIN to JFK, still a lasting. lifelong memory though.

upsmd11 · Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:58 pm

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This was the type of aircraft, flew SDF - DAL back in the late 60s/early 70's before DFW opened. Flew to DFW too once it opened.

The sad part is now SDF rarely gets anything so interesting as a 707, except for the UPS cargo jets, which I adore.

John

ra-85154 · Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:58 pm

I remember very well

AMS - RHO / October 1991 / Transavia / Boeing 733

PH-HVK

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tartan · Sat Mar 27, 2004 11:05 pm

Mine was April 1978. I was 6. It was a Dan Air BAC1-11 from Gla to Rome Ciampino. I have vague memories of the flight. It was a 3-2 configuration and the seats in the middle of the plane faced each other.
Arriving at Ciampino, which was primarily a military airport, I remember there being lots of soldiers with guns and being scared.

FlyingColours · Sat Mar 27, 2004 11:07 pm

September 1993, Monarch Airlines MAN-MCO (Via Bangor), MCO-MAN.

I still remember it all clearly besides being 7 & 8 at the time. It was an A300-605R although I can't remember the regestrations. They had a blue interior and those seats were really itchy. Got a flightdec visit too on the return.

It must be one (or two) of these.

G-MONR
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G-MONS
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G-OJMR
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Incidently, I think the old colours were perfect on the A300.

Phil
FlyingColours

FlySSC · Sat Mar 27, 2004 11:40 pm

Air Inter (former French Domestic Airline ). Vickers Viscount...in 1971. Flight MRS (Marseille) to BIA (Bastia - Corsica).

I was so happy and proud to fly...instead of taking the ferry-boat as usual... Wow!

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mNeo · Sat Mar 27, 2004 11:57 pm

Balkan 767-200 Leased from AF on SOF-JFK non-stop happened on June 1996

BAViscount · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:00 am

Mine was a British Airways Vickers Viscount LHR-GCI, August 1979.

Hence the username!

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BTW, I believe the above pic was that very plane!

icarus75 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:01 am

For me it was in april 1984
Air Inter Airbus A300 (or 310?) between PGF and ORY

Jetblue15 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:02 am

Lucky enough for me it was my favorite a/c. IT was an Delta LT11. I was real young and because of the pilot of that flight, I fell in love with aviation.

Tony Lu · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:10 am

Continental Airlines! Dont know which aircraft cause it was a long time ago. The flight route I think was Cleveland to Houston. I was only about a few months old!

Tony

foxbravo03 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:15 am

Hello,
My first flight was on Aer Lingus B.747-100,EI-ASI,on Sun.16th Aug. 1987.
The flight was SNN-DUB.
Regards,
foxbravo03.

MerC · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:25 am

July 1992
Scanair DC-10-10 - GOT-PMI-GOT

JUANR · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:26 am

June 1985
BOG-CCS-SJU
Lufthansa 747-200

Juanr
SKBO

VC745D · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:27 am

Capital DC4, MSY to LGA (with several stops)--8-13-54.

Spike · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:30 am

1967, BOAC SuperVC-10 from London Heathrow to Lusaka (Zambia), aged 2, because of my Dad's overseas posting. And here she is that same year:

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Spike Smile

westjet_8 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:31 am

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This is the first flight I can rember, Mainline YYC-SLC then on to LAX.

pmanchuk · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:35 am

My first was an Eastern 727 back in 1986 I believe from BOS to MCO

zmatt1 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:36 am

SFO-LAX on a nearly empty Western Airlines 720-047B in July 1964. What a ride!

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4Left · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:39 am

In December of 1970 I flew on a Boeing 727 Yellowbird of the old Northeast Airlines. We flew from BOS to MIA, my neighbor was the pilot and I got to sit in the jump seat most of the way down the coast. Way Cool for a 10 year old!!

Bicoastal · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:41 am

I believe my first flight was on a Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Electra from San Diego to either Burbank or Los Angeles circa 1964????

SA7700 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:41 am

My first flight ever:

South African Airways on a B727 from BFN to KIM.
A grand distance of 95 miles.........

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sfilipowicz · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:45 am

For me it was a KLM DC-8.

Somewhere in 1979, flight from London heathrow to Amsterdam. Can't remember much of it.

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sevenheavy · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:52 am

It was a TWA 747-131, from LHR-LAX, in october 1977. I remember we got seats in first class right in the nose because my Dad worked for them. All I can remember about the flight is looking out the window and seeing all the snow covered mountains (no idea whereabouts we were at that point!). It was a great flight and the first of many on that great airline.

Regards,

SevenHeavy

SJU767 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:55 am

My first flt was with EA in an L1011 from SJU-MIA

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mlsrar · Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:59 am

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Clipper Liberty Bell NRT-SFO, shortly after I was born, so I really have no clue about the flight.

Spike · Sun Mar 28, 2004 1:01 am

Having posted my first actual flight (aged 2), here is the first flight I actualy remember (aged 6):

Lydd-Ashford to Beauvais, Skyways International, Hawker Siddeley 748. I can't believe A.net has this picture!

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Lan_Fanatic · Sun Mar 28, 2004 1:13 am

June 1992...My first flight and my first trip to Europe, with Alitalia.
The flight was in a MD-11 (I-DUPE, Giuseppe Verdi) and I was extremely excited for flying in such a big aircraft. Since then, I love the Md-11 and Alitalia. My father was also very excited because finally he was going to the country where our ancestors came from...so this flight was very emotional.

Well, the flight was SCL-EZE-FCO

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DeltaRules · Sun Mar 28, 2004 2:58 am

First flight: January 1989, TWA 727

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First I remember: June 1992, USAir DC-9 CMH-PIT (the old PIT terminal!)

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DeltaRules

RB211LTN · Sun Mar 28, 2004 3:01 am

My first flight was on a Britannia 737-200 LTN-PMI. I was only a young child and I vividly remember the acceleration on take-off. It felt incredible. The sensation was only beaten by my first empty positioning flight on the 727, it went up like a rocket when it was empty.

bmacleod · Sun Mar 28, 2004 3:42 am

I was maybe 2 or 3, but it was either a CP 737 or a AC DC-9 from YHZ to YYZ.

kanebear · Sun Mar 28, 2004 3:47 am

It was Braniff CRP-IAH (I think, maybe HOU) on a 727 when I was a week old as my parents told me. WN didn't come here until 1976 so until then we had BN, EA and I THINK Trans-Texas Airways. I seem to remember the Great Pumpkin being here in CRP ONCE upon a time, not sure when or why.

Tarheel · Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:03 am

It was 1956, and I played hookey from high school and flew from ORF to DCA (and back the same day) on a Capital Airline Vicount. What a great intro to the world of air travel! My co-hookey player and I remained friends for decades until his death recently.

TFJamie · Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:08 am

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I was 2 years old and it was a charter flight from KEF to Malaga

SEAPete · Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:20 am

My first flight was when I was a baby. First flight I can remember was when I was 5. EUG - SEA on Huges Airwest a DC9-31

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Cheers!

Pete

kevin752 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:30 am

My first flight was on Pan American in Late May early JUne from LAX - LHR on either a 747-100 or sp I am not sure which type of 747 I was in. I was like 5 five years old. I took the flight in 1990.

WesternDC1010 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:36 am

My very first flight at the age of 10 was aboard:

Western Airlines #561
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10
N909WA (46983/252)
KLAX-PHNL
June 16, 1981

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- Ron
Western DC-10-10

Aeroflot777 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:38 am

My aircraft was a IL-62, on a flight from SVO to Copenhagen, Denmark. What a lovely aircraft!!

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alonk · Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:42 am

Nice topic! Big grin

my first flight was when i was only a year old.dont remember the exact date but it was on an El Al Israel Airlines 747-200 from LLBG-KJFK (Ben Gurion-JFK).
I dont really remember that flight(as u could probably imagine)...

AmericanMD80 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:59 am

My First Flight.

December 1993
ITH-PIT on a USAir DC-9-30

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/ / / connecting to / / /

PIT-PHX on a USAir 757-200

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*i can still remember the take off to this day...it was so powerful, i felt like i was going off into space*

joe
///americanmd80

ZOOMER · Sun Mar 28, 2004 5:12 am

BEA (British European Airways) Airspeed Ambassador, promoted by BEA as the Elizabethan, from Brussels Melsbroek to London Heathrow, in 1956.

pouyazad · Sun Mar 28, 2004 5:25 am

My first flight was on a Boeing 747 SP, of course the airline was Iran Air and we were flying from Tehran to Beijing, summer of 1983.

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PanAm747 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:00 am

The story of my first airplane trip:

It was 1974, I was eight years old, living in Bakersfield, CA. We were going from BFL-FSM (Fort Smith, AR) for my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. I was able to tell my mom what kind of plane we were on at each phase of the trip, because I asked the flight attendants each time!!

We started out in a United 727-100 BFL-LAX:

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I remember the entering via the airstairs. When we arrived at LAX, we transferred to the American terminal, where my great aunt (who lived in Downey) met up and flew with us the rest of the way. For DFW-LAX, we boarded either an American 707 or 727 - I can't remember which, but I do remember the 3x3 seating:

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Arriving at the very new DFW airport, we deplaned and took a space-age trolley out to a remote part of the airport, where there was a fleet of very stylish Convairliner:

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Absolutely the LOUDEST plane in the world - but a very nice f/a on that one!

The return trip was even more exciting. We re-boarded a Convairliner for our flight FSM-FAY-JPL-MCI. In transferring terminals at MCI, it was dusk, and our tram turned a corner revealing several TWA 707's in the red arrow and elegant double yellow globe insignia. It was like a scene in a movie:

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I remember entering and seeing the first class lounge with what looked to be a picnic table! I thought to myself, "Wow! That'd be perfect for us". I even said out loud, "Mom, dad, can we sit there?". Must have produced quite a few giggles!

The service on TWA at that time is just legendary. Yes, it was coach, but eastbound and westbound menus? For a hopelessly addicted eight year old, it was beyond cool!!

The final flight was a United 737-200 LAX-BFL. I had a window seat, and I remember thinking, "wow!! That is a huge engine!!".

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If you didn't think I was addicted before, I don't think there's any doubt now!!

wingsofman72 · Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:10 am

Haven't looked at all the entries..but mine goes back to 1952 or 1953..on
AA CV240 LGA-ALB-SYR-ROC.....
However,first I can remember (or have record of for that matter), a very
"Classic Airliner" N711PA ..707-121, 7/10/59..IDL-BOS ..return on
DC-6B..N6525.

Fiedman · Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:17 am

My very first flight was in December 1982 I was only nine months old it was a flight from Calgary to Honolulu for a Christmas vacation, it was on a Wardair Boeing 747-100

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LVZXV · Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:28 am

No documentation of my 1st flight, but was probably around 1984 in either one of these:

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ScottishLaddie · Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:29 am

Although I can't remember it, I've been told it was a Wardair DC10 doing PIK-YYZ in summer '89 or '90.

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