Whatever became of these three ladies? Back in November 1977, Tricia Thomson, Chris Moore and Anne O'Donnell who worked on the information desk at Newcastle Airport were sporting their smart new uniforms. We hope the intervening 45 years has been good to them.
The 1970s saw the airport take off in a big way, paving the way for what it is today - a major hub, a starting point and destination point for worldwide travel. Kicking off the decade as the ninth busiest of Britain’s 39 airports with 416,000 yearly passengers, that figure had more than doubled 10 years later.
New terminal buildings and an extension of the runway to the east were proposed in the early '70s. And there was a new phenomenon - the foreign package holiday. Soon the likes of Thomson, Horizon, Global, Wings, Ellerman-Sunlight and Air Tours became highly visible around the airport as the sunshine business grew. By 1974, Thomson was carrying passengers to Spain, Majorca and other newfound exotic locations.
