#british airtours

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airsLLide No. 838: G-BBAE, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 1, British Airtours, Geneva, March 7, 1987.

Yet another example of a typical European leisure subsidiary: British Airtours was formed in 1970 by then BEA British European Airways under the BEA Airtours brand, explaining the radio call sign «Beatours» the carrier kept through the merger of BEA and BOAC British Overseas Airways Co. that formed her parent to present day British Airways.

With that merger of 1974, BEA Airtours was rebranded into British Airtours. According to demand and long term fleet plans, some aircraft for intra European and for intercontinental routes were occasionally swapped between parent and subsidiary, since both relied on the same models. That applied to G-BBAE as well that began her flying career in 1974 with the newly formed British Airways. She was transferred on lease to British Airtours in 1985.

When British Airways bought competitor BCAL British Caledonian Airways in 1988, British Airtours was quickly rebranded into Caledonian Airways, retaining the BCAL logo of the Rampant Lyon. G-BBAE too would receive the new brand and retain it until her withdrawal in late October 1999. Thus, she would narrowly miss her carrier's next rebranding: After Thomas Cook took over Caledonian from BA in 1999, it renamed it into JMC Air in March 2000.

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Events 8.22 (after 1900)

1902 – The Cadillac Motor Company is founded. 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile. 1902 – At least 6,000 people are killed by the magnitude 7.7 Kashgar earthquake in the Tien Shan mountains. 1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War. 1934 – Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only test cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes. 1941 – World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad. 1942 – Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy. 1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces. 1949 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. 1953 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed. 1962 – The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. 1963 – X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)). 1965 – Juan Marichal, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, strikes John Roseboro, catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, on the head with a bat, sparking a 14-minute brawl, one of the most violent on-field incidents in sports history. 1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers. 1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America. 1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28. 1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies. 1973 – The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections. 1978 – Nicaraguan Revolution: The FLSN seizes the National Congress of Nicaragua, along with over a thousand hostages. 1978 – The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a sufficient number of states. 1981 – Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed. 1985 – British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation. 1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts. 1991 – Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states. 1992 – FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. 1999 – China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more. 2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building. 2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. 2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. 2006 – Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal. 2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. 2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.

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27 août 1985 Visite aux survivants de la catastrophe aérienne de Manchester après un incendie à bord du 737 Jetliner de British Airtours à l'hôpital de Wythenshawe dans le Grand Manchester de Wythenshawe

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The one Manchester air disaster not many people know about

Most people can remember the British Airtours disaster at Manchester Airport in 1985 where sadly 55 passengers died but not many know about the one in Wythenshawe. The BAE (British Eueopean Airways) flight 411 was on route from Amsterdam to Manchester on 14 March 1957, it seemed all was going well until only a mile from the Manchester Airport runway the aircraft suddenly turned and banked to the…

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“Starlite”, o de cómo la Humanidad perdió un material que podría haber cambiado la Historia

1. El increíble invento de un hombre normal El 22 de agosto de 1985 a las 6:12 de la mañana, hora local, un vuelo comercial de la empresa British Airtours se incendió durante el despegue. El vuelo se dirigía a la isla griega de Corfu desde el Aeropuerto Internacional de Manchester: aunque se trató de […]“Starlite”, o de cómo la Humanidad perdió un material que podría haber cambiado la Historia

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Cockpit of Boeing 707-436 [G-APFG] by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 17708, l/n 128 Built 1960 for BOAC as G-APFG. Leased to BEA Airtours in March 1973 and transferred to the merged and renamed British Airtours in April 1974. Sold to Aviation Traders in 1981 and was stored at Stansted until dismantled in 1989. The fuselage was used for fire suppression tests at Cardington until 1991 when it was finally broken up. The cockpit was saved and is now on display as part of the South Wales Aviation Museum. St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK 12th June 2021

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1711:

Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Expedition

1851:

The yacht America won the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns race, later renamed the America's Cup, near the Isle of Wight, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1851_America%27s_Cup

1961:

Ida Siekmann jumped from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to West Berlin, becoming the first person to die at the Berlin Wall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Siekmann

1985:

A fire broke out on British Airtours Flight 28M, causing 55 deaths mostly due to smoke inhalation and bringing about changes to make aircraft evacuation more effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airtours_Flight_28M

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2017: The Safest Year in Aviation History

ZERO. Of the more than two billion people who flew last year worldwide, that’s the number who were killed in commercial airline accidents. Nobody. Thus 2017 becomes the safest year in the history of civil aviation.  

It was 2013 that held that honor previously, but the fact is that flying has become so safe that year-over-year comparisons are increasingly academic. Instead of playing the same game every January, it’s better to look from a wider, more macro perspective. What we see is a trend that began about thirty years ago, and has since reached the point where air safety, as we know it, and what we now expect of it, has been radically transformed.

It’s a little like global warming: the entire paradigm has shifted, with every year squeaking just ahead of the previous one as the new record-breaker. Disasters still occur from time to time (see Malaysia Airlines), and there are ups and downs of statistical correction. But the safety bar, so to speak, is in a totally different place.

There are so many intriguing ways to quantify this. And while this is a global story that airlines the world over can be proud of, here are four statistics that Americans, in particular, can savor:

1. The last fatal airliner accident on U.S. soil was the Asiana Airlines crash landing in San Francisco in 2013. Three teenage girls were killed in that incident, one of whom was struck by a rescue vehicle.

2. The last fatal accident involving a U.S. carrier of any kind was the Colgan Air (Continental Connection) tragedy outside Buffalo, in 2009, in which fifty people were killed.

3. The last fatality involving a U.S. major carrier was a Southwest Airlines mishap in Chicago in 2005, in which a 737 slid from a snowy runway and collided with a car, killing a young boy.

4. And perhaps the most remarkable stat of them all is this one: the last fatal accident involving one of the “big three” U.S. majors — that’s American, United, and Delta — was, — wait for it now — the crash of American flight 587 in November, 2001. That’s right, sixteen years ago. Not all that long ago, the idea that our biggest airlines, each of which records thousands of departures every day of the week, could, combined, go the better part of two decades without a single crash, would have been unthinkable. This is arguably the most impressive accomplishment in American aviation history.

It wasn’t always like this.

In decades past, one or two crashes every year involving one or more of the mainline U.S. carriers was considered normal, even expected. And in other regions of the globe the numbers could be staggering.

Consider for a moment the year 1985. During that one year, 27 major crashes around the world resulted in the deaths of almost 2,400 people! These included the Air-India bombing over the North Atlantic, with 329 casualties, and, two months later, the crash of Japan Airlines flight 123 outside Tokyo, with 520 dead. These, the second and fifth-most deadly accidents in aviation history, happened 49 days apart! Also in ’85 were the Arrow Air disaster in Newfoundland that killed 240 U.S. servicemen, the infamous British Airtours 737 fire, and the crash of an L-1011 in Dallas that killed 137.

And we’re still not finished. 1985 was also the year of the TWA flight 847 hijacking.

Sure, that was an unusually bad twelve months, but it wasn’t entirely out of synch with how things used to be.

When I was in sixth grade, I started keeping newspaper clippings of plane crashes. Whenever there was an accident, anywhere in the world, I would snip the related articles from the paper and put them into a shirt box. By the end of junior high, that box was jammed full. Six, nine, ten, even a dozen catastrophes every year had been the norm.

The big question is, how did we get here?  

No, it has nothing to do with Donald Trump, who this week shocked absolutely nobody by taking credit for the good news in a typically preposterous Twitter message. “Since taking office I have been very strict on commercial aviation,” Trump tweeted. Whatever measures he’s referring to, of course, exist only in his imagination, and are better left unexplored.

There are three very real things, on the other hand, we can thank for this reality, all of which precede Trump’s presidency:

The first is better crew training: the advent of crew resource management (CRM), for example, and substantial enhancements to cockpit culture, hierarchy and oversight.

Almost as critical has been a raft of improved aircraft technologies: things like TCAS, enhanced GPWS, windshear detection, cargo fire suppression, and so on.

And thirdly — and naive as this will sound to some — we’ve had the collaborative efforts between air carriers, regulators, and organizations like ICAO, ALPA, and other advocacy groups. The specifics here are varied and expansive, from the standardization of runway markings and air traffic control protocols to substance abuse programs. These people and organizations, often with very conflicting missions and priorities, have, for the most part figured out a way to work together.

And, okay, we’ve been lucky, too. I’ve been knocking on wood since the first paragraph. And a dearth of headline tragedies does not mean we should rest on our laurels. Complacency is about the worst response we could have. Air safety is all about being proactive — even a little cynical. We need to keep this going.  

A quarter century ago, as air travel was beginning to grow rapidly, and the world’s airfleet was expected to double or even triple (it since has, and may do so again in our lifetimes), experts warned of a tipping point. Unless certain deficiencies were addressed, we were told, disasters would become epidemic. Some of the scarier analyses were predicting a major crash occurring every week by the early 2000s. Fortunately they were addressed, and the end result is that we’ve effectively engineered away what used to be the most common causes of crashes.

Indeed the global-ness of this trend has been maybe its most notable aspect. It’s one thing that planes aren’t crashing in the U.S. or Europe, but they’re not crashing anywhere, really. Not in India or China, where aviation has been growing exponentially and where the highest levels of concern were. Not in Asia, not in Africa, not in South America.  Are all these regions equally safe? Of course not. But they’re all safe.  

It’s a little ironic, too, for a couple of reasons:

For one, surfing the Web or clicking on the television, you almost wouldn’t know that any of this has happened.  On the contrary, the media’s habit — and by media I’m referring to both commercial and social media — of over-hyping and over-dramatizing even the most minor malfunction or precautionary landing, has convinced many people that accidents are in fact happening more frequently, and that flying has become more dangerous, when exactly the opposite is true.

And then we have people’s attitudes toward flying in general. It’s hard to overestimate the levels of hate and contempt people have for the airlines, and while a lot of that sentiment is well-earned, let’s take a minute to acknowledge the enormous strides they’ve made when comes to what is arguably the most important metric of them all.  

Say what you want about flying; there’s no denying that it’s become vastly safer. And this new normal is something we can all, well, live with.

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airsLLide No. 12413: OY-CNT, McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10, Premiair, Sharjah, November 27, 1996.

Premiair was formed in 1994 through the merger of Scandinavian charter airline Scanair with Conair of Scandinavia. It was acquired by British charter airline Airtours in 1996 but continued to trade under its own brand until both identities were acquired by and merged into MyTravel Airways in 2001.

Premiair used five units of the midrange version of the DC-10, the DC-10-10 designed for transcontinental routes in the US, otherwise a rare bird in European skies. As the -10 lacked the range to fly non-stop from Scandinavia to Phuket in Thailand - where OY-CNT is destined to here - flights regularly had to call in the UAE for refuelling.

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Events 8.22 (after 1940)

1941 – World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad. 1942 – Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy. 1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces. 1949 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. 1953 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed. 1962 – The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. 1963 – X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)). 1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers. 1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America. 1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28. 1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies. 1973 – The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections. 1978 – Nicaraguan Revolution: The FLSN seizes the National Congress of Nicaragua, along with over a thousand hostages. 1978 – The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a sufficient number of states. 1981 – Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed. 1985 – British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation. 1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts. 1991 – Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states. 1992 – FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. 1999 – China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more. 2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building. 2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. 2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. 2006 – Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal. 2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. 2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.

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Day Excursion from #Colombo to #Nuwara Eliya & back Flying time: 50 mts both ways Pick up point:Rathmalana Airport / Waters Edge Landing point: Nuwara Eliya #Helicopter #toursrilanka #Helicoptertoursrilanka #daytours #Srilanka #srilankatourism #Airtours #Tours #travel #adam’speak #visitsrilaka #lanka #helitours #excursions #excursionssrilanka #travelsrilanka #NuwaraEliya #Nuwara Eliya Nuwara Eliya, in the British colonial period it also know as little England. They try to create Nuwara Eliya into a typical English village, blessed with sparkling climate and breathtaking view of tea carpeted. This coolest city located at elevation of 1890 meters above sea level. Although the town was founded in the 19th century by the British, both of building consisted with English architecture. Native travelers today visit the whole district, especially during the month of April, the season of flowers. Includes Tea Trail Web – www.slminitours.com E-mail:- info@slminitours.com Phone:- +9471 – 5720880/+9471 – 2776556 Web – www.slminitours.com App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codetu2.slmini (at Sri Lanka) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6-OWVsJTC-/?igshid=j8v9auce4xlg

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We remember: One of the biggest aviation disasters in Manchester

We remember: One of the biggest aviation disasters in Manchester

As we come up to the day 36 years ago we remember those that perished on board an aircraft bound for Corfu. On 22 August 1985 just before 7 am British Airtours 737 was starting to get ready for the trip to corfu with 131 passengers and 7 crew members on board the 737-200 Boeing aircraft with a superb safety record when it started to roll down the runway at break neck speed a loud bang was…

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Back in the 70’s, I remember my two siblings and I being told by Mum that she had booked our family’s first foreign destination package holiday.  The destination…Salou, Spain.  As you can probably imagine, we were happy giddy children running around the living room, our arms outstretched; pretending to be aeroplanes….vrooooom, neeeooooown!  Our usual family ‘holidays’ were day trips to Blackpool Pleasure Beach or the Cala Gran Caravan Park in Fleetwood, and even those trips were few and far between.  So, our first trip to foreign lands booked, and we only had a year to wait…a whole year!  Mum worked three jobs that year just to pay for the package holiday.  Family Holidays Have Changed Since The 70’s and a package holiday was the only way to go, booking DIY was relatively unheard of.

A packed beach at Blackpool Pleasure beach in the 1970’s

DRESS TO IMPRESS

The year passed, and in the weeks leading to travel day we were dragged from pillar-to-post buying new clothes.  Travel day arrived and I remember getting dressed into my new clothes.  Wouldn’t want to look like the scruffy council estate street urchins that we were, no siree…posh clobber all the way!  Bescoby’s (catalogue shop) finest at that!  Manchester Airport was packed and the aircraft was enormous and noisy!  The engine noise was soon drowned out by the rowdy passengers (mum and step-dad included), many of whom were bladdered and singing at the top of their lungs….”oh, this year I’m off to sunny Spain, Y Viva España”!  The stench of alcohol was overwhelming and cigarette smoke filled the cabin, inside the aeroplane it looked like a foggy day!

Travelling with British Airtours at Manchester Airport

DO YOU JEST, NO I JOUST

There’s so much that I can recall from our first foreign holiday.  One awful memory is going to the beach and having our white freckled skin plastered with sun cream.  We looked like three ‘child-sized’ abominable snowmen on the beach but we didn’t care, we were on our package holiday!  There were vendors walking the beach with live animals; baby chimps, snakes, lizards etc, each trying to get tourists to have a photo.  My best memory was being taken to a Medieval Castle to watch Knights joust to win the hand of a Fair Maiden!  Upon entry to the castle we were given a paper ‘crown’ and a plastic ‘chalice‘ before being shown to our bench table.  We dined on chicken and potatoes and drank juice.  No plates, a whole roast chicken was slammed down onto the table by servers who were dressed like peasants.  Definitely no FSA hygiene rating in the good ol’ days!  Quite a scary experience for a child if I’m being honest, scary…but an indelible memory.  Plus we got to meet and have a photograph taken with the King and Queen of the Castle before we left.

Trying to win the hand of a Fair Maiden in a jousting contest

PILOTS ARE POOR, LET’S HAVE A WHIP-ROUND

Another memory I have of the 70’s family holiday was gathered on the return flight home.  I recall a drunken man, walking up and down the aisle with a colourful sombrero souvenir on his head and a large ‘piñata’ style donkey under his arm; collecting money from the passengers to hand to the pilot after landing.  Oh yes, and the tipsy travellers clapping and cheering once the plane landed and ground to a stop!  Heaven only knows why?  That’s the pilots job…take off, fly and land the plane!  To this day I am still baffled as to why ‘collections’ became a common sight on planes in the 70’s and 80’s.  It’s not as if pilots didn’t get paid a decent salary surely?  And, on the souvenir front, I also remember my Nana bringing home a plastic donkey that she filled with cheap cigarettes. Pull both of the donkey’s ears, the tail lifted and a cigarette popped out of its bum hole!  Highly amusing to a child, but also strangely weird!

I’m not an ass, I’m a donkey!

THE WORLD WIDE WEB IS WONDERFUL

Back in the 70s, booking via a Travel Agent on the High Street was the only option for Mum when she was booking our first family holiday.  Nowadays we can surf the WWW discovering far flung destinations.  The ease of comparing thousands of hotels and reading every Review (good and bad) of the hotel or campsite that you have your heart set on, is, well…easy!  Booking a holiday is much more convenient in the 21st Century, especially as we have so much tech and so many apps to assist our travels.  Mummy often recounts how, in the 80’s; her Mum and Dad planned their 3 week family trip to America and Walt Disney World Resort.  No Google maps or Booking.com in sight and once at the destination…no sat-nav in the hire car!  I shudder at the thought!  I get lost in Asda’s car park let alone travelling the globe!

Lynne (age 9) meets Mickey Mouse at Disney World, Florida

LET’S GO TO SPAIN AND EAT A FULL ENGLISH

In this day and age we are truly spoilt that we very rarely experience ‘new foods’ whilst travelling.  The exotic fruits that you would only see on your foreign summer holidays are now stacked high on our supermarket shelves.  Albeit in the 70’s I’m sure that we, just like the other British holidaymakers in Spain; were still tucking into a full English fry.  Let’s go to Spain and eat a full English…now that makes sense…not!  And, just to make things clear; a fry isn’t a proper fry unless it has Heinz Baked Beans and HP Brown Sauce!  Eggs, sunny side up or over easy, what’s your preference?  Thankfully our tastebuds and sense of adventure have evolved since the 70’s.  Nowadays we love nothing more than exploring a region and sampling the local delicacies when we venture to a new country.

A hearty fry, always a great start to the day

SELFIE’S ARE MORE ANTI THAN SOCIAL

Think back, how on Earth did we survive a holiday without letting our friends, family and anyone else on our Facebook ‘friends’ list know what a fabulous time we were having!  Today, it’s so easy…lie by the pool with a cocktail in hand, snap that selfie (might take more than one attempt and a multitude of facial expressions) and share to all 7,936 friends (are they really ALL friends) on Social Media.  It’s a holiday, put your phone away and stop being anti-social!  But make sure you get that ‘instaworthy’ picture first!

Strike a pose…vogue

PHOTO ALBUMS GALORE

Back in the 70’s you came home with a couple reels of camera film that you would have to wait for a week to be processed in your local chemist.  You would then spend hours arranging your glossy snaps into photo albums and annotating who, what and where…nightmare!  Friends and family would avoid calling to the house for months fearing a 7 hour session of you reminiscing whilst showing them your ‘amazing holiday’ snaps!  Now, when we arrive back home; a quick 10 minute ‘holiday’ conversation is all that’s needed because your friends and family have already seen the pictures and read about the holiday on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and every other social media outlet that there is.

Photo albums for reminiscing about holidays

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY

Of course the cost of travel has also changed drastically since Mum worked 3 jobs to take us on our family’s first foreign package holiday to España.  2019 and we are in the era of low budget airlines where you can pick up a flight for €10 and sometimes less!  Search engines have become our new BFF and sites like Skyscanner, Booking.com and Trivago allow us to hone our skills at searching for a bargain holiday to a luxury destination.  No longer does cheap mean bad, or ‘you get what you pay for’.  Credit was non-existent, there was no ‘stick it on the credit card’ and pay it off after the holiday, holidays were paid for with hard-earned cold, hard cash!  I remember vividly counting and bagging my saved pocket money then taking it to the Post Office to exchange to Spanish currency, Pesetas, or ‘potatoes‘ as we called them!  And I still have some of them from the 70’s, as well as a stamp.

IT’S THE MEMORIES THAT MATTER MOST

One thing that hasn’t changed since the 1970’s is that people still travel to make memories.  Whether those memories and moments are captured in one simple 35mm photograph, or by 10 burst shots on your newest high-tech smartphone, we are all still trying to make the memories that our parents did back in the 70’s. 

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FAMILY HOLIDAYS HAVE CHANGED SINCE THE 70’S Back in the 70’s, I remember my two siblings and I being told by Mum that she had booked our family’s first foreign destination package holiday. 

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G-APFJ 1960 B707-436 British Airtours Cosford 24.05.99 by Phil Rawlings