When was your first flight ?

[rechoboam]

Re: My first commercial flight...

MEL-LHR on an industry ticket taking in Pakistan, Iran, China, Indonesia amongst several other places almost 40 years ago!

And the Ansett lounge reference brings back a LOT of distant memories of the past and of family. I remember a little lapel badge type of golden wings thing my dad gave me? And being given a tiki on Air New Zealand on the way to Hawaii.

One thing I like about Tulla is that bits of the footprint are unchanged from about 1979 which helps bring back nice memories! Although I was thinking going through today that there used to be a staircase going up from checkin to a concourse and that seems to have disappeared? or is it in the Virgin terminal? Or maybe it is now used as the arrivals escalator from QF domestic?

 

[jetlagger]

Re: My first commercial flight...

My memory has faded or jaded! Sometime around 1978 I flew from Wagga to SYD on some kind of Fokker.. I still recall the excitement of such an 1st time on an aircraft..

 

[k_sheep]

Re: My first commercial flight...

Hmmm mine was when I was 3-4yo (this is the first one I remember anyway). I can't even remember where it was to or from, but would've been Mackay to somewhere, so probably qantas. I bugged my Mum and brother (who I was travelling with) for weeks that I was getting the window seat. Once I got there, I complained it was too sunny and demanded to be moved. I then proceeded to roll grapes down the aisle.

Yes I was one of *those* children I only remember impeccable behavior after that!

 

[Katie]

Re: My first commercial flight...

It would have been around 1980-1981, on TAA. Brisbane to Winton, or possibly Longreach.

 

[AaronBradford]

Re: My first commercial flight...

I feel so young! My first flight was QF Link I think, NTL-SYD in January 2002. I was almost 12.

 

[FlyboyAl]

Re: My first commercial flight...

My first flight was in a TAA aircraft in 1957 (I was 1 y/o). It would have been from Sydney to Canberra. I don't remember it, but I remember Dad talking about it - he was TAA manager.

 

[scaredeycat]

Re: My first commercial flight...

1970, QF 707 Sydney to Hong Kong. Mid flight the captain warned us of impending turbulence due to a typhoon. Suddenly the plane dropped abruptly and anything not tied down hit the roof (including an unfortunate flight attendant). My mother was terrified of flying for years afterwards (although strangely enough it was quite a few years later when I developed my fear). We landed safely in Kai Tak - I remember feeling as though you could almost pluck the washing off the balconies of the high rises, we seemed to pass so close. Emerging out of the plane the air was so humid that my mother's hair spray just seemed to melt.
The other memory I have is being taken up to the coughpit mid flight - how times have changed!

 

[Major]

Re: My first commercial flight...

A similar thread here

http://www.australianfrequentflyer....cussion/when-was-your-first-flight-32503.html

 

[SeatBackForward]

December 1982, migrating to Sydney as a 4 yr old with my mother. The flight went BOM>SIN>PER>SYD. My mother mistakenly got off at PER, and Qantas did look after us putting us on the next flight to SYD.

I was really disappointed to not see my father once off the plane, as he had migrated six months earlier. But Qantas got me a kids pack to while away the time. So I wasn't too bad. Still remember seeing our suitcase sitting by itself against a column at SYD baggage area...

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[harvyk]

Re: My first commercial flight...

March 1991, CO, SYD-HNL-LAX, 741.
It was with my sister and grandparents and we had a bulkhead seat taking up D-G. I remember been a little confused about the idea of airbridges (I had always seen stairs connecting to planes). I also didn't understand the idea of the FA call button and pressed it quite a few times calling over the FA. Of course I didn't realise what I was doing and could easily put on a sweet and innocent "Nooo, I wasn't pressing the buttons, honest" in the way that only a 9 year old could.

 

[AVC]

Re: My first commercial flight...

I think it was SYD-ADL in a 727 around the late 70s. Then a connecting Fokker Friendship to Whyalla. All in whY, funnily enough.

 

[Meggsy]

November 1985, TAA Airbus A300. SYD - MEL. Heading down south to start a new job. 27 years later still employed by the same company.

 

[day-heg]

Late 1978... LHR - BOM, probably with a stop or two en route. Airline/aircraft unknown... I was 8 months old!
I could ask Mum & Dad, but they deffo wouldn't remember and would be confused about why I wanted to know!

 

[mosanator]

Well for a small town and the 13th longest runway in Australia, my home town Cooma certainly features prominently for first flights !!!! Along with F27 Fokker's
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My first flight Cooma - Merimbula 1970 on a F27 Airlines of NSW. There used to be a flight that went Syd - Merimbula - Cooma and back in those days.

 

[seanpodge]

Not sure if it was a flight from Sydney or Newcastle to MEL when I was one (1983), or a trip to Ireland a couple of years later. The first flight I remember was a flight from SIN to CPH on SAS in 1990. We were on our way to Ireland again to visit relatives. The funny thing I suppose is that I don't remember the flight from MEL to SIN!

 

[ShaneN]

Easter 1979, CBR-SYD-BNE with TAA, probably 727 and / or DC9. I was 21 years old and had just moved from Qld to a job in Canberra

 

[Bolthead]

I have already posted on this thread (September last year) but I was just talking to my daughter (she is now 21) and she reminded me she was only 12 days old when she went on her first flight from Adelaide to Brisbane on QF 737. We were living in Brisbane but because our other 2 children were born in Adelaide my wife insisted that we could not have a Queenslander in the family.

 

[Mal]

I believe my first commercial flight was bne to chc with air nz on 1 July 2000. There may have been another trip a few months before that bne to syd with ansett but i can't recall when that was.

From memory it was a 767. Don't know the variant.

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[kelvedon]

I have no recollection of my first flight but i'm reliablely informed by my father, that in the early 60's, at the age of 6 weeks i was exported from London to Tripoli ( Lybia) on a BOAC Brittania, a 4 engined propeller plane.If I could fing my JJC log book, I could probably tell you the registraion number and Captains name! Now I'm feeling old!

 

[Pushka]

I was 18. Flying was too expensive back then. We had "road trips".

My son on the other hand was 6 weeks old. An international flight.