Originally Posted by
megan
My understanding is that the crews swapped aircraft ie BOAC crew flew the QANTAS aircraft on to London, and the QANTAS crew flew the BOAC aircraft to Sydney. That seems to be confirmed by the above photo of a BOAC aircraft parked at the QANTAS Sydney facility.
Yes, it seems clear now that the same aircraft continued up or down the route, with the uniforms changing at Karachi.
That doesn't preclude the possibility that it was only BOAC's 20-odd Lancastrians that were used on the route. Obviously there would be one BOAC aircraft originating in Sydney, crewed by Qantas, for every one that left London.
We need to unearth a photo like yours, but of one of the four Qantas aircraft at Heathrow.