Found family's old plane tickets from travels in 80's/90's

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CrazyHopiPlant@reddit

I remember having to go to a travel agent to get to NM for college. Was Really the only way to buy airline tickets at the time...

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avi8tor@reddit (OP)

Back in my youth had to go to a Kilroy travel agent and buy tickets there, atleast got some youth discount. But back then there were travel agents every second city block.

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PM_ME_YER_BOOTS@reddit

This is fascinating but also sounds like some of the most exhausting itineraries ever…

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I love checking out (old) flight numbers to see if they are still being used and if they are still on the same route as many years before. I checked all flight numbers shown here and here’s what I discovered:

BA052/53 still exists, but they are now SEA - LHR/ LHR - SEA

BA319 CDG - LHR still exists!

TP242 still exists, but is now a rarely used flight number for a flight from ORD - LIS

AY882 still exists but is now a flight from VBY - HEL

AA221 still exists but is now a flight from AMS - DFW

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moaningpilot@reddit

BA52/53 is a funny one. For a long time BA only used flight numbers in the 200’s for LHR-US routes apart from JFK. They’ve since introduced a few different flight numbers for PIT , AUS and CVG but they’re all still fairly close to the standard US numbers.

Their flight numbers are roughly grouped together geographically and Africa still has numbers in the 40/50/60 range so it’s unusual to see it assigned to Seattle.

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DutchBlob@reddit

Yeah sometimes they don’t make sense. I discovered that BA also has flight BA49/48 to/from SEA. Seems like they reused an old Africa flight number

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avi8tor@reddit (OP)

I wonder what plane type the JFK-IND AA221 sector was on back then. I have no memories. Remember the Pan Am 554 was on a Boeing 727.

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DutchBlob@reddit

Pan Am ❤️

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avi8tor@reddit (OP)

BA CDG-LHR was on a 767-300 back then ! We had a club seat and they even served a hot meal on that flight.

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