Forum Aviation

à savoir BOAC/British Overseas Airways Corporation, ou Better-On-A-Camel pour certains

North America
First Class Boeing Stratocruiser serivce (Sleeper Berths & Lower Deck Lounge)
1 Daily London – New York Idlewild vv
1 weekly London – Montreal vv
1 weekly London – Prestwick – Gander (F) – Montreal vv
1 weekly London – Manchester – Prestwick – Boston (F) – New York Idlewild vv (Inbound service by-pass Boston)

Tourist Class Constellation Aircraft service (New York: Mayflower flight; Montreal: Beaver flight)
1 weekly London – Prestwick – Gander (F) – New York Idlewild vv
2 weekly London – Prestwick – Gander (F) – Montreal vv
3 weekly London – Prestwick – Gander (F) – Boston – New York Idlewild vv

(F) Flag Stop

Caribbean
Constellation Aircraft Service
1 weekly London – Bermuda – Barbados – Trinidad vv
3 weekly New York Idlewild – Bermuda vv (“The Bermudian”)
1 weekly Bermuda – Barbados – Trinidad vv

Super Constellation Aircraft Service
1 weekly London – Bermuda – Nassau – Montego Bay vv
1 weekly New York Idlewild – Nassau – Montego Bay vv
1 weekly New York Idlewild – Nassau vv (“The Bahamian”)

Vickers Viking Aircraft Service
8 weekly Miami – Nassau vv
3 weekly Montego Bay – Kingston vv

Middle East / Asia / Oceania Operated by Argonaut Aircraft, except Constellation aircraft to Australia
Le Canadair C-4 Argonaut était un DC.4 très amélioré avec des moteurs Rolls-Royce Merlin et surtout, la pressurisation. Le gouvernement Britannique avait accepté une solution de pis-aller, le C-4 étant produit dans un pays membre du Commonwealth ...
1 weekly London – Zurich – Rome – Cairo – Basra – Karachi – Delhi – Calcutta – Rangoon – Bangkok – Hong Kong* – Tokyo vv
(Inbound sector between Karachi and Cairo operate via Bahrain instead of Basra)
1 weekly London – Dusseldorf – Rome – Nicosia – Damascus – Basra – Karachi – Colombo** – Singapore** – Saigon – Hong Kong* – Tokyo vv
1 weekly London – Frankfurt – Rome – Beirut – Bahrain – Karachi – Delhi – Calcutta – Rangoon – Bangkok – Hong Kong* – Tokyo vv
1 weekly London – Dusseldorf – Rome – Nicosia – Damascus – Basra – Karachi – Bombay – Colombo** – Singapore** – Hong Kong
(Inbound flight arrives Karachi will operate operate Karachi – Bahrain – Cairo – Rome – Frankfurt – London)
1 weekly London – Frankfurt – Rome – Beirut – Bahrain – Karachi – Calcutta – Rangoon – Singapore
(Inbound flight by-pass Frankfurt stop)
1 weekly London – Rome – Nicosia – Baghdad – Bahrain – Karachi – Delhi – Calcutta – Dacca – Rangoon* – Bangkok^ – Singapore
(Inbound flight from Baghdad to Nicosia operates via Damascus)
1 weekly London – Rome – Beirut – Bahrain – Karachi – Bombay – Colombo vv
3 weekly London – Zurich – Beirut – Karachi – Calcutta – Singapore** – Jakarta – Darwin – Sydney vv

* Night-stop on outbound
** Night-stop both direction
^ Night-stop on inbound

Israel / Middle East / Africa
Argonaut Aircraft Service
1 weekly London – Rome – Beirut – Baghdad – Kuwait – Bahrain vv
1 weekly London – Rome – Amman – Baghdad – Bahrain vv
1 weekly London – Rome – Beirut – Kuwait – Bahrain vv
1 weekly London – Rome – Tel Aviv vv
1 weekly London – Rome – Cairo vv
3 weekly London – Rome – Cairo – Khartoum – Entebbe – Livingstone vv
5 weekly London – Rome – Cairo – Khartoum – Entebbe – Nairobi vv
3 weekly London – Tripoli – Kano – Lagos vv
2 weekly London – Tripoli – Kano – Accra – Lagos (Inbound by-pass Accra stop)
1 weekly London – Rome – Tripoli – Kano – Lagos vv
1 weekly London – Rome – Tripoli – Kano – Accra vv
3 weekly London – Tripoli – Kano – Accra vv

Boeing Stratocruiser Aircraft Service
1 weekly London – Frankfurt – Cairo vv

Hermes Aircraft Service
2 weekly London – Rome – Cairo – Khartoum – Entebbe – Dar es Salaam vv
3 weekly London – Rome – Cairo – Khartoum – Entebbe – Nairobi vv

et BEA/British European Airways, alias Broken-Engines-Anywhere par les mêmes esprits .....

International

3 weekly London – Nice – Rome – Malta vv (E)
2 weekly London – Naples – Malta (E)
2 weekly London – Rome – Catania – Malta (E; Inbound by-pass Catania stop)
1 weekly Malta – Tripoli – Benghazi (E)
1 weekly Malta – Tripoli – Benghazi – Cairo (E)

Europe
3 weekly London – Rome – Athens vv (V)
5 weekly London – Rome – Athens – Istanbul vv (V)
4 weekly London – Nice – Rome vv (E)
4 weekly London – Geneva – Milan vv (V)
4 weekly London – Nice vv (V)
6 Daily London – Paris vv (E)
2 weekly London – Barcelona vv (V)
2 weekly London – Palma vv (V)
5 weekly London – Madrid vv (V)
1 weekly London – Gibraltar vv (V)
2 weekly London – Lisbon vv (V)
2 weekly London – Copenhagen – Stockholm vv (V)
3 weekly London – Copenhagen vv (V)
3 weekly London – Oslo – Stockholm vv (V)
8 weekly London – Geneva vv (V)
7 weekly London – Zurich vv (V)
1 Daily London – Zurich – Vienna vv (V)
1 Daily London – Brussels vv (E)
2 Daily London – Amsterdam vv (E)
1 Daily London – Frankfurt vv (V)
1 Daily London – Dusseldorf vv (E)
1 Daily London – Hamburg vv (E)
2 weekly London – Amsterdam – Munich – Athens vv (V)
4 weekly London – Brussels – Dusseldorf vv (E)
3 weekly London – Brussels – Cologne vv (E)
2 weekly Manchester – Geneva vv (V)
2 weekly Manchester – Amsterdam – Dusseldorf vv (V)
3 weekly Manchester – Birmingham – Paris vv (V)
5 weekly Madrid – Gibraltar vv (P)

BEA also operates service between Berlin and Hamburg, Munich, Dusseldorf, Hanover

Domestic UK
1 Daily London – Manchester vv (P)
4 Daily London – Glasgow vv (1 Daily V; 3 Daily P)
5 weekly London – Birmingham – Edinburgh – Glasgow vv (P)
12 weekly London – Manchester – Glasgow (P)
5 weekly London – Edinburgh vv (P)
19 weekly London – Belfast vv (12 weekly P; 7 weekly V)
13 weekly Glasgow – Belfast (P)

Service to following UK points are not listed in OAG – Nov 1954 Edition:
Aberdeen, Alderney, Barra, Benbecula, Campbeltown, Guernsey, Inverness, Islay, Isle of Man, Jersey, Orkney, Shetland, Stornoway, Tiree, Wick

(E) Elizabethan Class Aircraft (Airspeed AS-57 Ambassador)
(P) Pioneer Aircraft (Douglas DC.3 reconditionné par Scottish Aviation)
(V) Viscount Discovery Class Aircraft (Vickers Viscount)