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Now that you mention it, yes, you're right. We alighted via a man-operated 'stairs', then walked across tarmac near the terminal, to the small terminal. It was hot. And that's where I saw my first 'local'. Hilarious in hindsight.

Many thanks for the extra info, aoa1234. I remember we were held up for 3 or 4 hours in KL, thus arriving in Dubai in daylight and seeing my first 'local' in his immaculate white dish dash. Cheers

Thanks for your offer. I'll see how I go and if I get stuck, I may get back to you.

Many thanks, Gold60. I'll give them a try. The joys of ageing!

It's funny you should ask that question. I did the same a couple of days ago on another site and got an almost instant reply. We flew from Darwin on Saturday 3/11/73 (then only flew through DRW on Saturday) and the route after that was KL, Colombo, Dubai then LHR. It was on a BOAC (or had it...

I'm trying to recollect which airports we stopped over at, on a Qantas flight from London to Sydney in November 1973. I think it was in a 707 but might be wrong. Were they using 747s in those days? I remember the first stop (or 2nd?) was definitely Tehran. Anyone help me with this, please...