Originally Posted by
Musket90
Flew on a British Island Airways Herald "newspaper flight" from Blackpool to Prestwick in early 70's departing Blackpool about 0600 which was a regular weekday fllght for a while. Don't know where the aircraft operated after Prestwick.
Was it not used by BOAC for shuttles to/from Belfast and Edinburgh, connecting to Transatlantic flights ? They used to use leased Viscounts as well but had BIA do the work for a while.
Footnote about BA547 being operated by a Herald appears in the footnotes in the 1971 BOAC timetable page here :
ba71-09.jpg (1583×1322) (timetableimages.com)