OK, dug out the timetable at last :
BA251 on Mon Wed Fri Sat
Handley Page Hermes
Times local
Heathrow 1445
Tripoli 2230/2345
Kano 0530/0645
Lagos 0925
4.5 hour turnround at Lagos
Lagos 1400
Kano 1645/1745
Tripoli 0130/0245
Heathrow 0900
The other three days of the week BA253 operated the same routing to Kano, giving a daily operation to that point, thence to Accra in Gold Coast (nowadays Ghana).
The writer's homeward trip routed from Tripoli via Malta and Rome. They appear to have overnighted and changed planes at Tripoli onto a BEA Vickers Viking which operated some regional routes based out of Malta to several places which seem decidedly un-BEA like nowadays.
BE805 on Mondays
Vickers Viking
Cairo 0730
Benghazi 1135/1215
Tripoli 1445/1530
Malta 1605/1635
Rome 1915
There was also a Savoia-Marchetti SM.95 still operating for the Egyptian independent carrier SAIDE on a similar routing through Tripoli. Now that would have been one for the enthusiasts to have a trip report about.
Last edited by WHBM; 23rd Apr 2007 at 09:59.