Originally Posted by
rog747
did the BOAC dc'7s ever go eastwards to the Empire?
No. The DC7C acquisition was the cause of much airline-government-media acrimony, only finally justified by the US dollar earning advantage to a UK airline of having competitive aircraft with the US operators by the mid-1950s, where BOAC were still stuck with first-generation L-749 Connies and spacious but lumbering and unrelable Stratocruisers, both of which sometimes required two fuel stops between London and New York, which the DC7C could do nonstop. The DC7Cs were only deployed on US routes, and those routes to Bermuda/ Caribbean which routed through New York, and which mainly carried Americans.
BOAC's fleet had been in a considerable mess in the earlier 1950s, with most of their types (Argonaut honourably excepted) giving serious problems, then within a few years 1957-60 a whole lot of replacement types finally came into service together, giving further difficulties. The DC7C, the Comet 4, the Britannia 100, Britannia 300 and the substantial initial 707-420 fleets all arrived in quantity pretty much together.