We have friends getting married on Sunday and off to Mexico for their honeymoon. As this is Jubilee Year, for a bit of fun I need to know what type of aircraft they would have flown in from London to Mexico City in 1952 – or would it be via US?
If anyone knows how long the flight would have been and what the airfare was that would be a bonus!
By: ianwoodward9 - 9th April 2018 at 11:41
I know this is five years on from the original enquiry but why would a journey from London to Mexico City in 1952 have gone eastbound? Would it not have been simpler, shorter and cheaper to have gone westbound, across the Atlantic to New York or Miami, and, from there, got a connecting flight to Mexico City?
By: l.garey - 7th April 2018 at 14:27
Singapore Airlines in 1985 would have been a 747-212 or 312. When I did that trip for the first time, in 1974, it was by 707-312.
By: jamaima23 - 7th April 2018 at 05:35
This info is incredible… Please tell me how to find out what kind of aircraft me and my folks would have flown in 1985 from London Heathrow to Port Moresby via Singapore? I think it was Singapore Airlines but I’ve been trying to figure out which plane it was for so long… How can I find the info myself? I bet the airfares in the 80s were tons more too… I dread to think how much they paid!
By: bravo533 - 14th February 2012 at 16:38
Philippine Air Lines from London via Middle East, India, Manila and the Pacific to San Francisco and a connecting flight SFO to Mexico with DC-6
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%203694.html?search=Mexico%20City
http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/pr/pr52/pr52-3.jpgParis – Mexico Lockheed Constellation
Amsterdam – Mexico DC-6
London – Mexico (BOAC started in 1966)
Thanks wieesso for your swift response! That would have been some journey? No wonder so many Brits chose to honeymoon in Paris!
By: wieesso - 14th February 2012 at 12:47
Philippine Air Lines from London via Middle East, India, Manila and the Pacific to San Francisco and a connecting flight SFO to Mexico with DC-6
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%203694.html?search=Mexico%20City
http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/pr/pr52/pr52-3.jpg
Paris – Mexico Lockheed Constellation
Amsterdam – Mexico DC-6
London – Mexico (BOAC started in 1966)
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February 14, 2012 at 10:45 am