BOAC-Cunard's 707s rarely were seen away from their Atlantic routes and this was the only time I photographed one. The Kangaroo Route was always busiest from Christmas to the end of January when many Australian businesses closed and workers went on holidays. It was during this peak in 1966 BOAC borrowed from its joint venture with Cunard.

Canadian Pacific flew to Sydney only once a fortnight (two weeks) at the time the photo was taken. DC-8s had not long replaced Britannias on the route, the switch coming with the opening of the new Mangere Airport at Auckland, New Zealand in November 1965.

Joined Australian National Airways in 1946, to Ansett-ANA when that airline was created in a merger and converted to a "Cargoliner" in 1960. Sold in Laos in 1968 as XW-TDM. It was shot down in May 1973.