BOAC B707 ops in the 1960s

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Originally Posted by Discorde

Readersof (and contributors to) this thread might find this excerpt from Madeleine'sQuest amusing.

An interesting story about life on a BOAC 707 en-route from Honolulu to Los Angeles, complete with a Hollywood actress on board, etc.

However ...

Did BOAC ever run 707s on the route from Honolulu to LAX ? Through the bulk of the 1960s they only served San Francisco in California, all with 707s, coming west from London through New York, across from Hong Kong and Tokyo through Honolulu, and up from Sydney and Fiji, also through Honolulu.

When they diverted the Sydney flights through Los Angeles instead, I believe that was when they changed the aircraft type on the South Pacific to the Super VC-10. About 1969. The Hong Kong route kept the 707, but also kept to San Francisco.

BOAC had much earlier, around 1962, run 707s on a separate direct London to Los Angeles route, but they didn’t really have the range and often had to stop, certainly westbound, at Winnipeg for fuel. When that was given up after a short while, LA was unserved again.

So, BOAC 707s on HNL-LAX ?