Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: se england
Posts: 585
I used to enjoy looking at the old BOAC timetables which indeed did resemble a bus timetable . A page marked London to Hong Kong might well show different intermediate stops every day of the week and would change from year to year . If you wanted to go to say Delhi you had to look up a couple of different terminating route pages say LHR -HKG and LHR to SYD . alsoa great slew of footnotes with coding maks inserted in the timetable positions like + or * decoded lower down the apgesd as
'one hour later from mar 30 ' or not Sundays in june or operated by 707 aircraft from 25 May'
Great fun for me and mate with our fathers 10% travel rights and wonder where we can go attitude-great times. And yes the stops were to pick up and drop off pax with BOAC often being seen as much better option on all kinds of city pairs along these 'Empire Routes' than the fledging independent country flag carriers
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