Originally Posted by
canberra97
British European Airways initially used their Viscount fleet extensively on the their continental European network so no surprise in the fact that they were seen at Luqa Airport, Malta.
BEA at the time actually provided the aircraft for The Malta Airlines (Air Malta predecessor), which they part owned, and had a couple of Viscounts outstationed there to operate local flights to Rome, Catania, Tripoli etc under local flight numbers, rotating back to London on the main service. Having an operating base, significant engineering support, etc there it was an obvious "good weather" training point for them. In fact, as the outstationed aircraft had some very leisurely rosters, I'm guessing they maybe used those instead of positioning a specific training aircraft out there.