Originally Posted by
rog747
just seen a photo dated 4/1968 at Athens with a BEA Trident on the ramp (old BEA red square livery)
cannot make out if its is a new T2E or not but the nose gear doors look like they have 2 open ala T1C
anyone know why a Trident would be at ATH in spring 1968 I thought this was Comet domain ?
Tridents had taken over the LHR-Rome-Athens-Istanbul-Ankara "stopper" by 1968, along with LHR-Rome-Athens-Beirut. A short range Trident 1C could have managed all those stops.
Here's a 1968 timetable :
http://www.timetableimages.com/ttima...6/be686-16.jpg