Originally Posted by
WHBM
The Viscount was not just a short haul aircraft. By 1960 various operators were running them from London down to points all around Africa, and Iraqi Airways ran them on London to Baghdad, and straight onward down The Gulf to Delhi. Leave London at 1930 on Monday, and with 6 stops along the way, get to Delhi at 0330 on Wednesday.
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indeed - and BUA ran them all the way down to west africa - with a few stops
and Hunting LON down to East Africa
i think BEA's furthest was GIB Tangiers Malta and Sardinia with Athens and Nicosia in the east
but the aircraft went on from ATH and NCO as far as TLV IST Beirut BAH DOH KWI and Damascus operating under a different flight number with Olympic AW or Cyprus AW
comets in 1961 replaced the VC8 on these routes
LHR to CPH and SVO was a BEA route too for the Viscount