The 747
The Queen of the Skies is no longer being made. Get into that upper deck while you still can.
European Health Insurance Card
Bye bye, EHIC. Hello, EHIC in disguise.
Blue passports
For more than 70 years, a 32-page passport with a dark blue cover, with the lion and unicorn crest in gold was the identification UK citizens needed to leave their island. After Brexit, one of the most urgent and vital questions remained: Could the blue passport come back?
STA
The travel agency is another casualty of COVID.
The astrolabe
Once a useful measuring instrument for finding out where you were at sea, perhaps the astrolabe can guide us when the opinion polls are all at sea.
Thomas Cook
It was in the early hours of the morning of 23 September that the slogan “Don’t just book it, Thomas Cook it” took on a new and wholly unwelcome meaning.
The hitchhiker
They were once ubiquitous, normal, and accepted. Now, however, the hitchhiker really has vanished.
BOAC
The BOAC logo is back. The airline that vanished in the 1970s recently touched down again at Heathrow.
Club 18-30
The last travellers on a Club 18-30 holiday have returned to the UK. The last banana boat has sailed for this once hugely popular holiday brand.
British Rail
It’s still there, on every one of the train tickets that you buy in the UK, in case you hadn’t noticed. The double-locking arrow of the logo that personified British Rail.
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