boac in europe

[wayoutwest]

hi all.BOAC use to stop at citys like frankfurt.zurich and rome i can understand this in the prop era but when the jets came they had the range to overfly europe.why did the still call at these citys and did they pick up and set down passengers in which case did they compete with BEA.

[tornadoken]

My first VC10 (ex-BOAC) BA flights to Tehran (5/1977) and HKG (10/1978) had stops in Frankfurt, Rome. UK had negotiated route rights which included 5th. Freedom to pick up/set down on a milk run. So, Frankfurt - Tokyo, with journeybreak stopovers on way. Policing such things was a pain, so: yes: tickets could be massaged to cause BOAC to sell, say, LHR-FRA, with such games as refunding/crediting unused sectors. It was all unbelievably complex with paper tickets and manual compilation of fares. The process included standard mileages, which could be manipulated to create "free" miles taken as shorter sectors. Come the CRS age and Air Miles/FFP, and codesharing replaced these games.

[Capetonian]

tickets could be massaged to cause BOAC to sell, say, LHR-FRA, with such games as refunding/crediting unused sectors. It was all unbelievably complex with paper tickets and manual compilation of fares. The process included standard mileages, which could be manipulated to create "free" miles taken as shorter sectors.

Weren't those the good old days!

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