Word: boac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BERMUDA has told British Overseas Airways Corp. to stop bringing in tourist-flight visitors direct from Britain. It thus hopes to force BOAC to add more flights from New York and boost the island's dollar trade...
Proudly, Britain's De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd. last week announced delivery of the last of nine Comet I jet airliners to British Overseas Airways Corp. By early 1953, BOAC hopes to have the fleet flying on a London-Tokyo route as well as to South Africa, Colombo and Singapore. De Havilland hopes to have all the bugs of jet operation eliminated-and perhaps be flying its Comet III-before the U.S. gets a commercial jet transport into...
Starting with thrice-weekly Comet flights between London and Johannesburg, British Overseas Airways Corp. recently launched a weekly service between London and Ceylon, and made a 23,000-mile trail-blazing flight to Tokyo and back. In a few weeks BOAC plans to start regular service to Singapore, add a Tokyo run early next year. The speedy Comet cruises at 480 m.p.h., but eats so much fuel it stops frequently to reload. Even so, it flies a 6,724-mile course to Johannesburg, with five stops, in about 24 hours. It has proved so popular that it carries capacity loads...
...BOAC's Managing Director Whitney Straight had ordered 25 of the giant Britannias before the prototype made its first flight last week, plans to use its long range (4,000 miles with safe margins) and space to offer nonstop transatlantic coach service by 1954. British European, Air France, Ireland's Aer Lingus, and Trans-Australia have already placed 48 orders for the smaller Viscount...
...London, Former Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his wife boarded BOAC's new Comet jet airliner and whooshed off to Rhodesia for a two weeks' visit...