For a discussion I’m having on another board, I’m trying to find out exactly how hard it was, in terms of time and expense, to travel between Australia, South Africa, the US, and England by ship or plane in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Search terms like “airfare” or “travel time” are so common that I get millions of hits when trying to find information with google, but it’s hard to find anything helpful in such a haystack.
Does anyone know of a good source to see how long it took, and how much it cost, for transoceanic ship/plane journeys in those days?
Time wise, the journeys would have been similar, but nowhere as frequent as we are used to. BOAC was the only British Airline of note and ran one or two flights a day to New York.
In 1968, I flew Montreal to Glasgow, round trip, for $165. I carried a guide book called “Europe on $5 a Day”, and that was actually possible, even in Sweden and Switzerland, for a basic hotel room and three meals in restaurants. But in Stockholm just barely, staying at the youth hostel and eating dinner at a cooking school.
