Mighty Jumbos Are Mighty Popular

Thirty-five million passengers flew on Boeing 747 s in their first three years of operations. Jumbos are now flying six million miles every week and in that time carry another 390,000 passengers somewhere around the world.

At the beginning of the year, 85 cities in 51 countries were already regular ports of call for the 194 superjets in service with 28 leading world airlines including British Air ways-BOAC.

On present schedules, BOAC 747 s operate six times weekly between Australia and Britain in each direc tion via the Orient. All these flights serve Sydney and, in addition, two of them call at Melbourne. BOAC 747 s are also seen at Perth and Darwin.

BOACs VC 10 flights five times weekly across the Pacific in each direction link at Sydney with the Jumbos to provide the only one air

line round-the-world service by this routing and enable connections to be made to Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Teheran, Bahrain, Tel Aviv and Rome.

Even more destinations are avail able by linking with VC 10s over the Kangaroo route through Australia (some at Brisbane, with which there is a link from Fiji, Vila and Honiara by Air Pacific BAC 1-11). These include Kuala Tumour, Calcutta, Delhi, Colombo, Kuwait, Abua Dhabi, Dubai, Damascus, Beirut, Cairo, Zurich and Frankfurt.

As well as those operating into the Pacific area, BOAC has 747 services between Britain and Africa and across the Atlantic between Britain and the USA and between Britain and Canada.

BOAC owns 13 7475, has two more on order and by 1976/77 ex pects to be operating a fleet of 23, and in the following year, 27.