Airline “crop duster”. And he did loops for me. Take that, all you boring airliners!
TWA as a very young kid - I kept trying to pronounce it as a word and my dad was giggling and my mom and sister kept shushing me…I did not know why at the time.
I wonder if you were periously close to just yelling “twat” over and over.
Ansett Australia… RIP
The colouring book was mad though
yeah me too. I specifically remember media covering the collapse of Ansett at the same time as 9/11, which seemed interesting that they thought the two were equivalent.
Ansett went on to exist as a training company for a while. Not sure if they still do.
well virgin Australia got quite large
They filled the void for sure
I think I first flew on TAA, from Brisbane to Sydney, then connected to a KLM flight to the Netherlands. Would have been about '83.
How in the world do you remember the first airline you flew in much less the first twenty?
Lots of people don’t fly.
A few trips ago, I sat next to a guy in his 50s on his first ever flight.
He was so excited. More so than my 4 yo was on his first trip.
I had to teach him how to put his seat back and told him he can keep the headphones and how they used to have these tube headphones and what it was like before 9/11.
Twenty?? Jesus, not everyone is able to travel that much.
It’s not really traveling that much. Depending on how old you are that could be 0-1 times a year.
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TAA (Trans Australian Airlines) just flying domestically in Australia
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Almost certainly American. My grandfather was a pilot for American, my uncle is currently a pilot for American, and my cousin just got hired as a pilot by American.
I don’t remember; I was a baby.
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Kingfisher Airlines (India).
When it was operative, it was luxury flight at same “ordinary” prices as other airlines.
They were amazing back then.
Royal Air Force being emergency evacuated.
Continental Airlines, way back in the 1960’s.
Ryanair when I was around 13/14yo. I wasn’t expecting something like business class on a A380, but boi that was a surprise. But I still enjoyed the take off.
Braathens, out of Fornebu. Neither the airline nor the airport exists anymore.
Can’t remember the first airline proper, but my first flight was with a bush pilot. Old, well beaten floatplane, the first leg of our trip. Took a week to walk back, stopping to fish on every lake along the way.
