Originally Posted by
crewmeal
Not quite right, I remember operating a 747-100 HKG - DRW - SYD - MEL and staying at the Territorian Hotel Darwin for 2 days before heading south. The was a cyclone I believe in 1974 which put pay to the DRW operation for BA.
I stand corrected on one point 🤗
I did have a feeling that British Airways operated to Darwin with the Boeing 747 during the early 70's but I wasn't 100% sure. Because of the fact that I wasn't totally sure I didn't want to add DRW just in case I was immediately "shot down".
"Cyclone Tracey" devestated the town of Darwin on the 28 December 1974. Qantas established a world record for the most people to ever embark on a single Boeing 747 flight when it evacuated 673 people. It also established a record Boeing 707 flight with 327 people on-board.
With Darwin totally flattened as you rightly pointed out this put paid to British Airways operations at DRW.