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Old Mar 8, 2012 | 1:03 am
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Originally Posted by jlemon
WHBM, would you happen to know the respective dates of first revenue service for the Caravelle for Air France and SAS?
SAS first service April 26 1959 on the Copenhagen - Munich - Vienna - Athens - Istanbul - Beirut service.

http://www.scanliners.com/lcc.htm

Air France first service May 12 1959 on Paris Orly - Rome - Athens - Istanbul

http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-da...ts.main?id=372

Dates are also from the definitive Caravelle book I have here, alas print only (and in French). You'll notice the aircraft started off on lengthy multi-stop services to the Middle East rather than on the shorter European trunk routes it later became associated with.
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