AirAmericaC46 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 590 posts, RR: 1 Posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 2313 times:
In the 70's, Beirut used to be the prime tourist destination in the Middle East. Pan Am 747 used to stop there on its daily RTW flights. KLM 747 also stopped in BEY on its flights to Asia. I believe Japan JL 747 also stopped in BEY on its Silk Route to Europe. Can someone confirm on this? So is VIASA and AC. PK? AI?
I need info on all the transcontinental routes to Beirut in the 70s----what airline, aircraft and the routing. Thanks in advance for posting.
AirxLiban From Lebanon, joined Oct 2003, 4491 posts, RR: 55 Reply 1, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 2282 times:
AirAmerica, I can provide you with MEA's routes once I go home and get my 1976 MEA timetable.
But I can tell you that Pan Am also operated to Beirut on PA 1 and PA 2 which went via Istanbul and continued to Tehran (for a period) then was switched around to Athens and Karachi...something like that also I need to go home and get my Pan Am timetable to confirm that one.
EurostarVA From Bahrain, joined May 2002, 1296 posts, RR: 9 Reply 3, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2220 times:
Nigeria Airways, Ghana Airways, VARIG and a list of other airlines all operated to Beirut at some point.
Ive just returned from a weekend trip to Beirut, first since 1995 and Ive been stunned with how much the city has returned to its former glory (to a large extent).
I will post my MEA trip report (Dammam-Beirut-Dammam) shortly!
Cedarwings From Lebanon, joined Apr 2004, 216 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2250 times:
List of airlines serving Beirut International in 1968:
Air France
Air Algérie
Air-India-Limited
Alitalia
British Overseas Airways Corporation
British European Airways
Ethiopian Airlines
Ghana Airways
Iraqi Airways
Interflug
Iran Air
JAT-Jugoslvenske Aerotransport
Kingdom of Libya Airlines
KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines
Kuwait Airways Corporation
Lufthansa
LOT-Polish Airlines
TABSO
Malèv
Middle East Airlines-Air Liban
United Arab Airlines
Olympic Airways
CSA-Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie
Austrian Airlines
Pan American World Airways
Flights:
PA1
San Francisco-Honolulu-Tokyo-HongKong-Bangkok-Rangoon-Calcutta-Karachi-Beirut-Istanbul- Frankfurt-London-NewYork
PA2
New York-London-Frankfurt-Istanbul-Beirut-Karachi-Calcutta-Rangoon-Bangkok-Hong Kong- Tokyo-Honolulu-San Francisco
PA114
Beirut-Rome-Paris-New York-Baltimore-Washington DC
PA115
New York-Paris-Rome-Beirut
PA118
Beirut-Teheran
PA119
Teheran-Beirut
Pakistan International
Alia-The Royal Jordanian
Tarom
Sudan Airways
Scandinavian Airlines System
SABENA
Swissair
Aeroflot
Saudia-Saudi Arabian Airlines
Türk Hava Yollari-Turkish Airlines
For more detailed information about the flight numbers, routes and airplanes used, I advise you to visit Wassim Shmaitelli's web page.
Jc2354 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 535 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 2132 times:
AXESS From Japan, joined Mar 2004, 64 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 2067 times:
JAL used to fly BEY in early 1970`s first by DC-8-50's and later by 747 two times a week.
I remember that SQ flew BEY-SIN for a short time with 707 in the late 1970 or in the beginning of 1980's.
BA From United States of America, joined May 2000, 11135 posts, RR: 61 Reply 8, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 2018 times:
This is a nice thread.
My dad flew PA2 long ago.
OD720,
MEA bought Lebanese International Airways (LIA) after Israeli commandoes destroyed its entire fleet in a surprise night attack on the airport in December 1968.
So my assumption is they bought the airline sometime early in 1969.
AirAmericaC46,
I can tell you that Beirut is coming back to its former glory days. It may not get all the airlines it had in the past (especially since a number of them are gone such as PanAm and Sabena), but it is really coming back.
Regards
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." - Khalil Gibran
BA From United States of America, joined May 2000, 11135 posts, RR: 61 Reply 10, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1803 times:
Sorry, my dad flew on PA1.
ETStar,
Feel free to email me anytime.
Regards
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." - Khalil Gibran
AF022 From France, joined Dec 2003, 2080 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1819 times:
the oldest source i have is from 1979
nonstops from BEY:
BEYAMM on AF/KL/ME/RJ/SU
BEYATH on AT/KL/ME/OK/SK
BEYAUH on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME
BEYBAH on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME
BEYBEG on JU
BEYBEN on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME
BEYBGW on AF/BA/IA/KL/ME/SK/SN
BEYBOJ on IF/LO
BEYBRU on SN
BEYBUD on MA
BEYBUH on RO
BEYCAI on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME
BECDG on AF
BEYDAM on AF/AT/AZ/SK/SR
BEYDHA on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME/SV
BEYDXB on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME
BEYESB on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME
BEYEVN on SU
BEYFCO on AZ/ME
BEYGVA on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME/SR
BEYIST on KL/ME
BEYJED on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME/SV
BEYKAN on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME
BEYKWI on KU/ME
BEYLCA on CY/ME
BEYLHR on BA/ME
BEYLOS on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME
BEYORY on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME
BEYPRG on OK
BEYRUH on SV
BEYSOF on LZ
BEYSVO on SU
BEYTHR on AZ
BEYTIP on KU
BEYVIE on OS
BEYZRH on MEA Middle East Airlines (Lebanon)">ME
AirxLiban From Lebanon, joined Oct 2003, 4491 posts, RR: 55 Reply 12, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 1693 times:
data from 1976:
London
Copenhagen
Madrid
Brussels
Paris
Nice
Frankfurt
Geneva
Vienna
Milan
Rome
Athens
Benghazi
Baghdad
Kuwait
Jeddah
Dhahran
Bahrain
Aden
Doha
Abu Dhabi
Dubai
Muscat
Khartoum
Kano
Lagos
Abidjan
Ankara
Istanbul
Cairo
Amman
Of course flights with BA,AF,KL,PK, AI (will check my TT collection and revert to you soon), were long haul most of them continuing to the Far East and Australia (KLM)
OD-BWH From Lebanon, joined Jan 2002, 398 posts, RR: 3 Reply 14, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1563 times:
I checked Wassim's homepage, it's really nice.
But i have one question, why did flights in the 60s and 70s use all this routing? it looked like an around-the-world flight! Seems nice! Look at this one for example:
PA1 San Francisco-Honolulu-Tokyo-HongKong-Bangkok-Rangoon-Calcutta-Karachi-Beirut-Istanbul-Frankfurt-London-New York
all this with a 707! Guess each destination had 1 or 2 passengers only!
Cedarjet From United Kingdom, joined May 1999, 7702 posts, RR: 55 Reply 17, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 1532 times:
'BWH, Pan Am indeed operated two round-the-world flights, one east (PA1) and one west (PA2). Pax could get on or off at any point, so you could fly Beirut to Calcutta, Tokyo to Karachi, London to Istanbul, you name it. Or buy a RTW ticket and get on and off when and wherever. "Nice" is right. A friend of mine was Cat Stevens' road manager and used it all the time. He said it also used to go to Saigon during the US bombing etc in the late 60s and early 70s.
fly Saha Air 707s daily from Tehran's downtown Mehrabad to Mashhad, Kish Island and Ahwaz
AirAmericaC46 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 590 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (8 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1309 times:
Thank you Cedarwings for posting and that website is awesome too with CV990 routes of Lebanese International.
Just like OD-BWH, I hope to see a picture of LIA CV990!
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