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Old 25th Jan 2018, 17:30
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The VC-10 route was London-JFK-Los Angeles-Honolulu-Fiji-Sydney. Brit312 above can probably make us all envious with entries from his log books .The 707 route was London-JFK-San Francisco-Honolulu-Tokyo-Hong Kong. The Sydney flights had been 707s until the late 1960s, but the Tokyo ones seem to have been 707s until the transpacific flights were given up. The Tokyo route of course was on Hong Kong licences, this was long before Cathay Pacific flew such routes.

The BOAC 707 that was lost at Mount Fuji in (1966 ?) was on this routing, many of the passengers were American, including a substantial corporate "best sales" group on a junket to Hong Kong. BOAC sold a lot of transpacific traffic from California - in fact, possibly more than over the Atlantic from there.
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