# Good source for info on transoceanic plane/ship travel costs and times in the 1960's?

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**Created:** [May 19, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-source-for-info-on-transoceanic-plane-ship-travel-costs-and-times-in-the-1960s/658761 "2013-05-19T21:21:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-source-for-info-on-transoceanic-plane-ship-travel-costs-and-times-in-the-1960s/658761/1 "2013-05-19T21:21:34Z")

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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?

Thanks for any help.

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**Author:** ![Baxter\_s\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Baxter\_s\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baxter_s_Dad)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-source-for-info-on-transoceanic-plane-ship-travel-costs-and-times-in-the-1960s/658761/2 "2013-05-19T22:33:51Z")

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You can be very specific in your Google searches to cut down on the “Millions” of listings.

Airliners in the 1950’s  
[http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/airliners/2nd%20upload/timeline%2050s1.htm](http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/airliners/2nd%20upload/timeline%2050s1.htm)

Airliners in the 1960’s  
[http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/airliners/2nd%20upload/timeline%2060s1.htm](http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/airliners/2nd%20upload/timeline%2060s1.htm)

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-source-for-info-on-transoceanic-plane-ship-travel-costs-and-times-in-the-1960s/658761/3 "2013-05-19T22:35:34Z")

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[1960 London to New York - from £165](http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/ba60/ba60-19.jpg). That’s around three months salary.

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.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-source-for-info-on-transoceanic-plane-ship-travel-costs-and-times-in-the-1960s/658761/4 "2013-05-19T22:42:21Z")

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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.