Yes, BEA would have been there too, but the small number of passengers wanting to fly long-haul made it necessary for BOAC to fly its long routes in short hops, in order to fill its aircraft. Thus, in 1964 on a BOAC 707 to Hong Kong we went via Frankfurt, Rome, Beirut, Bahrein, New Delhi and Bangkok. I don't suppose more than ten of us flew the whole route (which went on to Tokyo), but the aircraft was 90% full on each sector.