Argonauts on the East Indies routes
Posted: 29 Apr 2017, 12:47
I'm sorry I didn't know where else to post this. It is a route query and I'm sure whoever it may concern just loves hearing how about a route to somewhere from such and such, not.
Anway, this did strike me as a bit odd, at Bangkok just now and there is no route to Singapore from there. To Kai Tak, then Singapore, yes but that doesn't make any sense so I did a bit of research. I found this excerpt apparently from a '50s BOAC schedule for an Argonaut far East route:
BA 780
London 2130 Tu
Rome 0150/0250 We
Cairo 0930/1030 We
Basra 1600/1700 We
Karachi 0035/0235 Th
Delhi 0650/0750 Th
Calcutta 1140/1240 Th
Rangoon 1645 Th
.... nightstop
Rangoon 0800 Fr
Bangkok 1025/1125 Fr
Singapore 1600 Fr
This accords with my Air Ministry "Merchant Airmen" book published HMSO (1944, but they just carried on with the routes after the war as all the infrastucture was in place, convenient but probably not worth killing millions over but I digress).
Anyway, I'm sure its lots of work and besides whoever probably has very good reasons for the routes out of VTBD we have currently. FYI here is the link I read the route info, they seem like a pretty sincere bunch of guys and I don't see why whoever has the BOAC '50s timetables would have made it up, but then again, it is the interwebnet, which is why I have old books too
http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-144357.html
cheers
Jim
Anway, this did strike me as a bit odd, at Bangkok just now and there is no route to Singapore from there. To Kai Tak, then Singapore, yes but that doesn't make any sense so I did a bit of research. I found this excerpt apparently from a '50s BOAC schedule for an Argonaut far East route:
BA 780
London 2130 Tu
Rome 0150/0250 We
Cairo 0930/1030 We
Basra 1600/1700 We
Karachi 0035/0235 Th
Delhi 0650/0750 Th
Calcutta 1140/1240 Th
Rangoon 1645 Th
.... nightstop
Rangoon 0800 Fr
Bangkok 1025/1125 Fr
Singapore 1600 Fr
This accords with my Air Ministry "Merchant Airmen" book published HMSO (1944, but they just carried on with the routes after the war as all the infrastucture was in place, convenient but probably not worth killing millions over but I digress).
Anyway, I'm sure its lots of work and besides whoever probably has very good reasons for the routes out of VTBD we have currently. FYI here is the link I read the route info, they seem like a pretty sincere bunch of guys and I don't see why whoever has the BOAC '50s timetables would have made it up, but then again, it is the interwebnet, which is why I have old books too
http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-144357.html
cheers
Jim