Originally Posted by
bean
Don't agree. BEA bought Comet 4Bs specifically to compete with Caravelles. Very well documented history
Only ordered for the longer runs, principally to the Eastern Med, and they then also got used on a few fill-in turns. They only had 13 of them, compared to 20 Vanguards, which were long used on unsuitable lengthy routes into the late 1960s, such as to Malta.
KLM made a similar error buying Lockheed Electras instead of Caravelles, and regretted those as well.