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Cambrian Airways was an airline based in the United Kingdom which ran operations from Cardiff Airport and Liverpool John Lennon Airport between 1935 and 1974. It was incorporated into British Airways when BOAC, BEA, Cambrian and Northeast merged on 1 April 1974. DH.114 Heron 2 of Cambrian at Manchester Airport in 1958.
Canadian North: The first logo was a polar bear on top of the midnight sun and Northern Lights on the side. After the merger with First Air, Canadian North used the silhouette of an Inuit from the latter's last livery as the new logo. Cayman Airways: Turtle. Cyprus Airways (1947–2015): Mouflon.
Imperial Airways Handley Page H.P.42. Hanno in 1931. On 31 March 1924, Britain's four pioneer airlines that started up in the immediate post war period—Handley Page Transport, British Marine Air Navigation Co Ltd, Daimler Airways and Instone Air Line—joined to form Imperial Airways Limited, [3] developing routes throughout the British Empire to India, some parts of Africa and later to ...
The UK flag carrier British Airways was formed 45 years ago following the merger of four companies: British Overseas Airways Corporation, British European Airways, Cambrian Airways and Northeast ...
Another all-over colour livery was adopted by airline group British Air Services in late 1970. Group members Northeast Airlines and Cambrian Airlines had their aircraft painted white/grey/yellow and white/grey/orange. Related pink and green liveries were designed for group members Scottish and Channel Islands Airways, but never saw service use.
British Airways purchased the internet domain ba.com in 2002 from previous owner Bell Atlantic, [161] 'BA' being the company's initialism and its IATA Airline code. [162] British Airways is the official airline of the Wimbledon Championship tennis tournament, and was the official airline and tier one partner of the 2012 Summer Olympics and ...
Northeast Airlines Hawker Siddeley Trident G-AVYD at Teesside Airport in 1974, now in British Airways/Northeast Airlines hybrid livery. The airline commenced operations in February 1952 from its base at Southend Airport as BKS Aero Charter flying a Douglas C-47 Dakota [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] ( BKS were the founders' initials – i.e. James B arnby, T ...
British Airways Ltd was a British airline company operating in Europe in the period 1935–1939. It was formed in 1935 by the merger of Spartan Air Lines Ltd, United Airways Ltd (no relation to the US carrier United Airlines), and Hillman's Airways. Its corporate emblem was a winged lion.