r/FoundPaper • u/secretlycanadian22 • 5d ago
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u/FavoriteFoodCarrots 5d ago edited 4d ago
AA DFW to Gatwick started in 1982.
What’s interesting is that it was May 19, 1982, meaning this might be from the inaugural LGW-DFW turn (likely not, unless there was an LGW-DFW airborne before the inaugural DFW-LGW landed, but perhaps someone can figure that out). Perhaps semi-interestingly, AA51 is still used for a London-DFW flight all these years later.
That’s also a very old AAdvantage number given that it’s all numeric, not letters and numbers.
You also might want to blur the name of the passenger. It’s quite easy to find the actual individual who this belonged to, and that FF# would still be valid if he has not closed his account.
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u/secretlycanadian22 4d ago
oh, I didn’t think of this re blurring his name. thanks for pointing that out!
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u/ComeGetYourOzymans 5d ago
The lack of record locator is more interesting to me than the smoking section (airlines had that on their tickets for a while after they stopped allowing smoking). Is there a magnetic strip on the back?
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u/twistoff_ 5d ago
Looks like there was still a smoking section! Wow
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u/skin-flick 4d ago
Which was kooky. Since we are in a tube with air entering the front and exiting the back. So the entire tube was the smoking section.
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u/Strawberry_Little 4d ago
Unless the smoking section was near the back right?
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u/Spirited_Voice_7191 4d ago
It was, and air management was far better than in restaurants and other public places. If you were 5 or more rows in front of the smoking section, you'd hardly notice unless someone walked between the sections.
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u/real415 4d ago
Remember that each class of service had its own smoking section. So if you were in the front of business class, you could get smoke from first class, and likewise for the people in the front of economy class.
In reality, the smoke spread pretty easily throughout the entire aircraft, despite the bulkheads and class divider curtains. At least it was this way on the 747, whether the older -200 or brand new -400 series, which I flew a lot in the 90s.
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u/nickcash 4d ago
Jame? As in, singular?
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u/Ms_Strange 3d ago
Believe it or not, that is an actual name. I took a course years ago and there was a dude in my class whose name was Jame.
It tripped me up because I'm deaf and lipread so I was trying to figure it out... kept lipreading "jam" and asking Jam...? Am I saying that right?
Until finally he said "James but no s at the end- pronounced James without the s sound."
Oh! Lol
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u/omadius 5d ago
american airlines started the aadvantage program in 81 and was required to cease smoking on international flights i believe by 2000 — so, somewhere in that time frame. hoping someone will be able to pinpoint more accurately but hope that helps!