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Hmmm...depending on how many seats were blocked off?
The BAF Viscounts could only reach PMI from SEN if some seats were unsold, or by selling every seat and flight planning to Nice with a diversion to PMI with a fuel plan to match. So that's what was done, BAF being BAF under Mr K.
(I know some would argue that was legal and safe, but I'm not among them.)
The BAF fleet were ex BA V.802s and V.806s, which I understood had shorter range than the V.810s that British Midland operated. Were the BAF fleet weight restricted off Southend's runway or was it a matter of the aircraft's capability to make PMI non stop at MTOW?