Re BA591 departure frequency
Thanks for the information re my question, which came about due to my trying to obtain my National Insurance number, one question being date of departure from UK.
My memory was that I received a message at work on a Monday "tickets in mail, depart for NZ next Monday". Memories of being poured onto the overnight Perth-London train on a Sunday night by a bunch of inebriated haggi with half a bottle of rum in one pocket and "something to go with it" in the other and departing 1300 on the Monday on BA591. Found my old passport which says I arrived JFK on the 25 Nov 1969, which was a Tuesday. A stamp in said passport reads "alien to be removed from US by 26 Nov etc etc" and BA591 is written below. Flew on to LAX, overnighted and departed for NZ on Fairyland Airways flt TE551 arriving Auckland on 28 Nov.
I am proud/pleased to be able to say that I have flown in a VC 10, if only once.