Then and now
RETROSPECTIVE Taking hospitality sky high
Every industry has people who have influenced, changed or even transformed the business. They leave a legacy that long outlives their careers. Jeremy Clark talks to Kurt Hafner in the first of a new series
Times they are
a-changing, and few in the onboard catering industry can bear witness to that change like Kurt Hafner can.
Born into the hospitality business 75 years ago this year, Kurt was there, planning onboard menus, from the early days of BOAC and his influence over the past 40 or so years has continued to make its mark.
Kurt grew up in Rheinfelden, Switzerland, where his parents owned a spa hotel. It was assumed he would follow into the family business and he duly did an apprenticeship at the Hotel du Lac in Vevey and the Royal Palace, Gstaad. But Kurt soon set his sights to higher, or at
Times they are a-changing...
Winston Churchill MP was the first British PM to make a
transatlantic flight. In 1942 he flew in a BOAC Boeing 314 flying boat from Bermuda to Plymouth.
BOAC's scheduled international flights had a truly pioneering role, setting standards and practice for those that followed.
BA first flew
Post-war, BOAC operated long haul services while European and domestic flights were flown by a new airline, British European Airways (BEA).
BOAC was ‘queen of the skies’ in the 1950s and 1960s and life and onboard challenges were very different.
supersonic London- Bahrain in 1976.
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