Originally Posted by
Hartington
I once got caaught in Hong Kong by a typhoon. among the other aircraft caught was aa BA vc-10 opeqrating something like Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seychelles, NAIROBI, joburg. BA also opearated Tokyo, Honolulu, San Fraancisco.\and night stopped in Honolulu (at BA expense A mixture of leftovers from the empire and range limitaations of early aircraft; for many yeara Nairobi ws THE fuel stop for everyone en route Europe-Southern Africa.
The routing was Tokyo Narita-Hong Kong-Colombo-Seychelles-Johannesburg.
Here is the schedule for 1980.
BA36A Tokyo 16.15 Johannesburg 07.15+1
Days 16 VCX 3 Stops HKG, CMB, SEZ
Here is the schedule for 1983
BA05 Tokyo 16.40 Johannesburg 07.30+1
Day 5 747 3 Stops HKG, CMB, SEZ
Tokyo to Johannesburg had stopped by the late eighties.
The Tokyo, Honolulu, San Francisco, London routing had ceased by the time of the merger between BEA and BOAC in 1974. The Tokyo flights we're already routed via Anchorage before the merger took place.