In January 1975, an agreement was reached for BMA to provide two Vickers Viscounts in Cyprus Airways livery to link Athens with Cyprus. A former WWII airfield at Larnaca was selected to serve the south of the island, following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. The first flights departed Larnaca on 10 February 1975. On 4 April 1975, the "Daily Mail" chartered a BMA Boeing 707 to assist the "Project Vietnam Orphans" and "The Ockenden Venture" charities in evacuating 150 orphaned children from Saigon during the Vietnam War.