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Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

We're going back to the 1950s and the first ever low-cost flights across the Atlantic.

A hugely successful venture, they were run by a small airline from Iceland, called Loflaida Icelandic. It was known affectionately as the Hippie

airline. Mike Lanchen has been speaking to two people who remember those early days

of low-cost flying with great affection.

The air terminal was really, it was really just like a shack,

yet the happiness and the glee and the buzz.

And I think probably as a child I remember such pride, my father, coming out one day on

the tarmac and seeing four big aircraft that said Laughlin and Icelandic and seeing people from all over the world inside this little tiny terminal.

That's Eda Helgerson. terminal.

That's Edda Helgerson. Her father was Sigurdor Helgerson,

the man who launched the world's first ever low-cost flights

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