Originally Posted by
rog747
Scheduled airlines then were mainly those services of BEA (Domestic and European) and BOAC (Worldwide) flying from London Airport (LHR).
You also had from 1964, the two main UK Independant Airlines British Eagle International Airways, and British United Airways who were operating both many Scheduled and Charter flights.
BUA had just received new VC10's and were flying from Gatwick Airport to West, Central and East Africa, plus down to South America.
They also from 1965, had a fleet of new BAC 1-11 jets.
British Eagle were desperately trying to regain licences from the BoT to again operate with newly ordered 707C's, flights from London Airport to Bermuda, Nassau Miami and Kingston.
Sadly they would go under in late 1968.
The rest of UK's air traffic was made up of the many small Independent and Charter airlines.
1964 is not relevant. Scheduled services under BEA associate agreements by independent carriers were operating way before 1964. 1960 is significant because of the formation of the Air Transport licensing Board.
Cambrian, Jersey Airlines, Channel, Silver City, Dan-Air, Derby were all operating profitably in the scheduled service field by the late 50s early 60s