[BIGLOOK]

Only BOAC flew in and out of Kenya at that time. Flights would have terminated at NY, maybe Washington and transfer to PanAm would have carried continuing passengers to the west coast or on to Hawaii.

The BOAC flights probably went through Heathrow and on to the US. He didn't explain the connections though.

[Fred Nerks]

How about from the Middle East, say Cairo? Still land in New York first? I notice the baby-sitters family, (through marriage) who were migrants from Cairo in 1946, all left their ship in New York.
But if, in 1961, a person in the middle east wanted to holiday in Hawaii, could they have flown direct, or had a layover in Indonesia?

I don’t want to know much, do I?

[hoosiermama]

IIRC there was a British airline that had a flight from Mombassa through Glascow to Vancouver. Often carried students, missionaries and military in empty seats Check flights from Seattle to HI too.