1973 Flight Timetables

[Gold60]

good luck!!!!!!!!!!!

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

 

[aoa1234]

if you are after some historic flight schedules for QF, have you contacted the QF Heritage centre at all ?

i did, and was sent a copy of a 1982 flight i did coming back from LHR, via LAX and PAP.

they were very helpful.

Cheers Gold60

 

[Gold60]

am happy to help if i can.

Cheers Gold60

 

[allan234]

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

 

[aoa1234]

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 changed to BA by then?) VC-10 (flight number BA729).

Maybe we were on the same flight!

I'm trying to find out the itinerary for our return flight in early Nov 1973. We flew Qantas in, I think, a 707, from LHR to SYD via Tehran (I also remember the Phantoms!) but am stumped as to the others. Hopefully someone will know the answer.

allan234

You are correct with the routing. I got the following reply from BA Heritage in the UK

"According to the BOAC timetable valid between July and October 1973, on Saturdays VC-10 BA729 was scheduled to operate from SYD to LHR as follows (all times local):


SYD dep 1215

MEL 1135/1420

DRW 1815/1855

KUL 2135/2215

CMB 2320/Sunday 0005

DXB 0240/0325

LHR arr 0805."

 

[allan234]

allan234

You are correct with the routing. I got the following reply from BA Heritage in the UK

"According to the BOAC timetable valid between July and October 1973, on Saturdays VC-10 BA729 was scheduled to operate from SYD to LHR as follows (all times local):


SYD dep 1215

MEL 1135/1420

DRW 1815/1855

KUL 2135/2215

CMB 2320/Sunday 0005

DXB 0240/0325

LHR arr 0805."

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

 

[aoa1234]

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

If memory serves me correctly DXB was just a Terminal, a Tower and miles of sand. How things have changed

 

[allan234]

If memory serves me correctly DXB was just a Terminal, a Tower and miles of sand. How things have changed

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.

 

[monoccular]

My first long distance international flight was in 1972, Qantas 747 or maybe 707.
Melbourne, Singapore, Bahrain, Amsterdam, LHR.

1980 I did with British MEL PER BOMBAY (?Abou Dhabi) LHR. There had been some “security issue” at Bombay and we weren’t allowed to disembark (sometime in the middle of the night). I remember sitting near the open door, sweltering and the stench was overwhelming.