Originally Posted by GK430
1961 before I got in a Viscount. Went to Lisbon, but that was out of LGW.
Did Bealine have them in '54?
It would appear so.
1953
1 April: Tourist fares introduced on BEA routes throughout Europe.
3 April: BOAC introduced Comet jet services to Tokyo, reducing the flight time to 33 hours from the previous 86 hours.
On 18 April BEA began the world’s first sustained airscrew-turbined airliner passenger service with Vickers Viscount V.701 G-AMNY flying London-Rome-Athens-Nicosia.
And google turned up this:
http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/sitebuil...scountprod.txt which indicates around 45 or so Viscounts were in service by the end of '54.
**** I'm getting old, they still look 'new' to me
