Take a visit to the vintage years of Toronto International Airport
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Concorde's flight preparations for takeoff to New York from London Heathrow.
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Pre-flight checks and procedures on British Airways Concorde Alpha Delta, preparing to take off from London Heathrow to New York.
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Pan Am Boeing 747-100 departs LHR (1970).
Then still a rare sight - only PA & TWA operating schedules from there with the type. BOAC’s were parked up until 1971 due to a dispute with BALPA.
Early 747s had notably poor performance - tales of only FL100 by WAL on transatlantics…
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Launch of the BA Shuttle LHR-GLA (1975).
Services to BFS followed (1976), EDI (1977) & MAN (1979). Pay on board, guaranteed seat, back-up a/c (usually a BAC 1-11) standing by.
Revolutionary then, but while the callsigns remain on the routes the concept disappeared long ago.
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In 1967, BOAC inaugurated its legendary London–Sydney Pacific service aboard the sleek Boeing 707 — a 13,000-mile marathon that took 33 hours across five stops.
Passengers dined on caviar at 40,000 ft as the jet hopped from London ➝ New York ➝ San Francisco ➝ Honolulu ➝ Fiji ➝ Sydney.
An era when long-haul flying was pure glamour, and every journey felt like a global expedition.
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A winter night from the 1970s at Toronto YYZ T1...DC-8s and DC-9 #ONStorm facebook.com/groups/TorontoY…
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Comeback / Sir Richard Branson has touched down in Toronto to mark @VirginAtlantic's return to Canada, launching a brand-new direct service between London Heathrow and Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Schedule: aeronewsglobal.com/virgin-at…
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Today, in 1981, British Airways retired its last Vickers VC10, a mid-sized, narrow-body long-range jet. airwaysmag.com/new-post/reti…