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Jamaica: Air Mail

Rates to the UK
All Air Services

First Flight Jamaica (5 Sept 1946) via Bermuda

BSAA was formed in 1945 and initially flew converted Lancaster and York bombers.
On 5 Sept 1946 BSSA started to fly from Jamaica to London via Bermuda and the Azores.

32 lbs 11oz
of mail despatched
to London
and 24 oz
to Bermuda.

2s2d airmail rate
applied 16 Oct 1939
to 15 Jun 1947.

First Flight UK (5 Sept 1946) via Bermuda to Jamaica

From London on 4 Sep 1946,
carried by BSAA Star Leader
which crashed off the Gambia on 7 Sep.
Item was salvaged, reposted and arrived
at Half Way Tree, Jamaica on 9 Sep
(backstamp).

Only six recorded covers to Jamaica.

BSAA lost ‘Star Tiger’ in the Atlantic during 1948 under mysterious circumstances,
followed by Star Ariel between Bermuda and Jamaica on 17 Jan 1949 and all other Avro Tudor planes were grounded for investigation.
The loss of the operational aircraft, coupled with the UK 1949 ‘Airways Corporation Act’
forced BSAA to be absorbed into BOAC on 30 July 1949.