Following the corporations' intervention, BEA Airtours acquired seven former BOAC Boeing 707-436s [REF].
British Airtours, as the airline had become known following the creation of British Airways in 1974 as a result of the 1972 BEA-BOAC merger, therefore decided to retire its remaining five Comets at the end of that year's summer season and to sell the entire fleet to Dan-Air [REF].