Before smoking was outright prohibited on an aircraft, passengers would often be asked if they wanted a smoking or a non-smoking cabin while reserving a seat. Smoking was permitted throughout most of the aircraft, with designated smoking sections frequently located in the back rows. Things have changed much since then, and smoking is not allowed anywhere in the cabin. Today’s generation of passengers finds it difficult to believe that smoking aboard aeroplanes was ever commonplace, given the experience of travelling has considerably changed.
A Reddit user posted an image of a few old boarding passes that fell out of the front page of their second-hand book.
The tickets were valid for a “non-smoking cabin” for a flight from Heathrow to Casablanca.
The individual stated, “I’ve tried looking everywhere online to see any similar or to try to date them as I’m so intrigued as to how old they could be but had no luck finding anything!”
“The non-smoking cabin is making me think maybe pre 1980’s?!”
Is anyone able to date these boarding passes? byu/Hour-Work6565 inAskUK
Many on the social networking platform were unaware that smoking was previously allowed on aircraft, thus the straightforward inquiry attracted a lot of attention.
One user jumped in and laid out the details. It must have been between 1955 and 2009 because the user pointed out that the tickets were for Heathrow’s T2 and Air France doesn’t use the new T2. To further narrow it down, they went on to mention that AFSL is Air France Services Limited, which was formed in 1996 and disbanded in 2009. The person further revealed that Air France banned smoking in 2000, so ticket may belong to somewhere between 1996 and 2000.
“However… I recall buying air tickets that said “non-smoking” on them long after smoking was banned. The whole plane was essentially a non-smoking section and they just didn’t update their ticketing system for a long time, so that may not be that useful.” The user did, however, say that if they had to estimate based only on the design, they would have chosen the 1990s.
For some reason, another user was “Pretty confident this is 1996.”
Yet another user said, “Late 90s, I very rarely fly AF, but I lived in Paris in 1997-8 and recognise these.”
Meanwhile, many users humorously mentioned “June 27”. If you don’t know what happened on that date, you are not alone. Nobody knows. Because it is an absurd meme where people all around the world are excited about this date for no apparent reason.
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