THE CEDARJET PAGES
By Wassim Chemaitelli
MEA-AIR LIBAN TIMETABLE, APRIL 1964.
This document is based on the MEA-Air Liban April 1964
timetable, N°8/A.
In this schedule, Air Liban flights were still shown
distinctly with the LN airline code.
The timetable retained MEA's usual presentation, with
the addition of the airline's new title in full, emphasizing the merger
with Air Liban. LN flights to western Africa were an important asset of
Air Liban, a lucrative market that MEA will continue to develop all through
its history.
The combination of both airlines' network greatly increased operations to Europe with daily flights to London, 2 flights a week to Paris (plus 4 in pool partnership with Air France), 4 to Frankfurt, Geneva and Rome, 3 to Athens, and 2 flights to Vienna and Istanbul.
MEA-Air Liban also combined flights eastwards, resulting in a dense regional network, with 9 flights a week to Kuwait, 5 flights to Bahrain, 4 flights to Jeddah, Dhahran, Doha, 3 flights to Baghdad, 2 flights to Aden, Teheran, Karachi and Bombay.
Flight schedules were optimized for ideal connection times in Beirut.
MEA-Air Liban flights to Cairo reached 9 weekly rotations.
Gone are the days when MEA's Viscounts stopped in Nicosia before contnuing to Ankara...
MEA-Air Liban's popular flights to Palestine exceeded 2 daily rotations to Jerusalem-Kolundia, and will reach 3 daily flights before the service brutal suspension in 1967.
The Dakotas will soon be withdrawn from the fleet, and it is likely that this is the last mention of DC3 operations in a MEA timetable, as the airliner was still affected to the Beirut-Aleppo sector.
This document, of major historical significance, shows the transition to the full integration of MEA and Air Liban's operations.
The MEA-Air Liban was kindly scanned and sent by Bjorn Larsson @Timetable
Images.