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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: silverbullet on November 02, 2023, 07:59:28 pm

Title: Remember when our families suffered the ravages of emigration?
Post by: silverbullet on November 02, 2023, 07:59:28 pm: This advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYHeuJAEDiQ&t=60s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYHeuJAEDiQ&t=60s)

I worked on Sierra Juliet [SJ] throughout the early 90s.
Title: Re: Remember when our families suffered the ravages of emigration?
Post by: markmiwurdz on November 02, 2023, 08:46:52 pm: Back in the day when going on a flight was such a big deal and a flight to London was about 200 nicker which would be a multiple of that today factored forward.
Title: Re: Remember when our families suffered the ravages of emigration?
Post by: Cool Boola on November 03, 2023, 10:49:02 am: Back in the day when you got 1 sausage and 10 peas and that had to last the whole day.

rofl
Title: Re: Remember when our families suffered the ravages of emigration?
Post by: silverbullet on November 03, 2023, 04:00:02 pm: Quote from: Cool Boola on November 03, 2023, 10:49:02 am
Back in the day when you got 1 sausage and 10 peas and that had to last the whole day.

rofl
Without cheap flights, we wouldn't have cheap labour. 8)
Title: Re: Remember when our families suffered the ravages of emigration?
Post by: Cool Boola on November 05, 2023, 11:19:49 am: or Dennys sausages!
Title: Re: Remember when our families suffered the ravages of emigration?
Post by: Belker on November 05, 2023, 03:09:29 pm: Quote from: silverbullet on November 02, 2023, 07:59:28 pm
This advert:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYHeuJAEDiQ&t=60s[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYHeuJAEDiQ&t=60s[/url])

I worked on Sierra Juliet [SJ] throughout the early 90s.

Jaysus !
They let auld dolls fly aeroplanes these days !
Title: Re: Remember when our families suffered the ravages of emigration?
Post by: silverbullet on November 05, 2023, 03:18:02 pm: Quote from: Belker on November 05, 2023, 03:09:29 pm
Quote from: silverbullet on November 02, 2023, 07:59:28 pm
This advert:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYHeuJAEDiQ&t=60s[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYHeuJAEDiQ&t=60s[/url])

I worked on Sierra Juliet [SJ] throughout the early 90s.

Jaysus !
They let auld dolls fly aeroplanes these days !

High mileage hostesses, they were called. Maternal figures were thought to calm passengers on long-haul journeys.

If a hostess was on DUB-JFK they could get either an overnight stay in NYC or even the weekend, staying in a swanky hotel.

New recruits were given Malaga, Benidorm, and the Canaries. Being handed bags of sick by skobies soon stripped the job of its glamour. 8)

When the males were hired as stewards they were known by the Engineers affectionately as "Ball-bearing hostesses"!!
Title: Re: Remember when our families suffered the ravages of emigration?
Post by: Shallow Hal on November 05, 2023, 05:46:48 pm: Quote from: markmiwurdz on November 02, 2023, 08:46:52 pm
Back in the day when going on a flight was such a big deal and a flight to London was about 200 nicker which would be a multiple of that today factored forward.

I remember going to London in 1990,Aer Lingus/BA only option...£300(punts)
Title: Re: Remember when our families suffered the ravages of emigration?
Post by: silverbullet on November 05, 2023, 06:12:12 pm: Quote from: Shallow Hal on November 05, 2023, 05:46:48 pm
Quote from: markmiwurdz on November 02, 2023, 08:46:52 pm
Back in the day when going on a flight was such a big deal and a flight to London was about 200 nicker which would be a multiple of that today factored forward.

I remember going to London in 1990,Aer Lingus/BA only option...£300(punts)
A poisoned chalice. Cheap fares allow for cheap labour. On the flip side, it's never been cheaper to emigrate!