A Reddit user shared a photo of two old boarding passes from years ago, which revealed tickets for a “non-smoking” cabin.
The user speculated that the banknotes could be from the period before 1980, leaving many Internet users stunned to learn that airplanes once had separate cabins for smoking and non-smoking passengers.
The Reddit post showed the old boarding passes, which the user said had fallen out of a second-hand book they had bought. The passes were for a “non-smoking cabin” on a flight from London Heathrow Airport to Casablanca, Morocco.
The caption read: “I’ve tried looking everywhere online to see anything similar or try and date them as I’m really curious how old they could be but I’ve had no luck finding anything!”
The user was curious if the notes were from the 1980s and asked: “The non-smoking cabin makes me think they might be from before 1980! Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!”
Users had mixed reactions to the viral post, shocked to discover that smoking was once allowed on flights.
One user suggested the tickets were from 1996, saying: “I’m pretty sure it’s from 1996. You can check historical departures from London Heathrow Airport here and on 27 June 1996 there was a flight RAM801, which is Royal Air Maroc and has the shorter flight number AT801. From what others have said, I’m pretty sure it would be from 1996.”
Another user explained that the tickets must be from between 1955 and 2009, as they were for Heathrow Terminal 2, which Air France stopped using after 2009. The comment read: “Well, they’re for Heathrow Terminal 2, and Air France doesn’t use the new Terminal 2, so it must be the old one, sometime between 1955 and 2009. AFSL is Air France Services Limited, which was also dissolved in 2009 and incorporated in 1996, which narrows down the possibilities a bit further. Also, Air France stopped allowing smoking in 2000, so maybe between 1996 and 2000. However, I remember buying plane tickets that said “non-smoking” on them long after smoking was banned. The entire 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.”
A third user concluded: “After much research, this is an Air France boarding pass, and further research indicates that the style of these particular boarding passes were used in the late 1990s. I think I’ve narrowed it down to between 1990 and 1998, as before and after that, boarding passes looked different, and after that, they stopped allowing smoking on all airlines, with Air France being the last in 2000.
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