Comments on: Homage to the Boarding Pass Wallet

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:39:07 +0000

In reply to Peter.

…and, yes, I got both wings (long gone) and at leat one trip into the cockpit. Those were the days.

It was Pan Am, I believe, across the Pacific.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:29:46 +0000

When I was a wee lad, in the early 60s, my family moved to Australia for three years. I still have, in the back of a closet somewhere at home, a vinyl overnight bag from QANTAS, which I successfully pestered my parents to buy. That it is still usable, is a testament to how well built these things used to be.

I still remember: DC to LAX, LAX to Hawaii, Hawaii to Fiji, Fiji to Sydney and then to Canberra. Now, it’s one hop from LAX to Sydney.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:51:21 +0000

About 6 years ago I started a collection of “First Flight Covers” – mail carried on inaugural flights. Quickly I had Pan Ams China and Yankee Clippers, the first flight from Key West to Havana, first 747, first 747 around the world etc. I now collect playing cards from defunct US carriers. Air Florida is hard to come by. Peoples Express does not seem to exist.

And i have a NY Shuttle “The Flying Nosh” and shares in Pan Am. The history.

By: Albert

Albert — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:28:01 +0000

In reply to Rod.

Rod,
you’re almost there. “Mardi Cinéma” was a show on French public TV in the 80’s. On the first part of the Tuesday evening (every other Tuesday) a film was shown. Afterwards, there was trailers, movie news items etc. including a quiz where clues were shown. Viewers had to guess which films were the clues from and send the names on a postcard. Hence on the left side of the postcard you see the names of the three films and the address of the sender, so that she could be contacted by the TV team if her postcard was drawn and the answers were right. It was a fairly standard procedure for quizzes on French TV back then.

By: Varun Dambal

Varun Dambal — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:11:32 +0000

I agree with your views especially timetable books. I still believe printed timetable books can make a comeback as it serves as a handy information tool

By: Ben Miller

Ben Miller — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:02:10 +0000

Your article got me looking at timetables online…I agree they’re amazing and fun to look at.

One question…in DAL’s November 2015 timetable they have the aircraft for the Atlanta to Sydney flights listed as a B-737 or B-757…for a flight of over 9000nm. How does that work??? Or is it a misprint? Or did they invent aerial refueling for civilian airliners?

By: Nicholas Robinson

Nicholas Robinson — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 15:45:28 +0000

In reply to Stephen R. Stapleton. For several years, Flights 1 and 2 were the ONLY flights I ever took. My father was with Pan Am in Calcutta.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 05:42:50 +0000

many timetable images can be found at http://www.timetableimages.com/

there are many propliner postcards starting at: http://imageevent.com/constellationpostcards

By: william staines

william staines — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 01:07:05 +0000

These sleeves would contain the flight coupon which would be removed at the gate and sent with the rest of the flight’s coupons to the revenue dept. God help you if you lost it on the way to the gate!

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 04:41:59 +0000

Love this article. I, too, threw out cartons and cartons of memorabilia (train related in my case) around 1985, and regret it to this day.

You might be interested to know that JAL still offers postcards. In the old days they would mail them for you, but not any longer.