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British Airways plc (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom. ... Formerly a short-haul regional airline founded in 1991 (as Euroworld Airways).
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 ...
Amalgamated to form British Overseas Airways Corporation - itself merged to found British Airways. Slov-Air: 1924: 2001 Czechoslovakia/ Slovakia: Founded as a department of Bata Shoes; name changed to Svitlet in 1948, to Agrolet in 1950 (became part of CSA, became independent in 1955), and to Slov-Air in 1969. Aero: February 1925: December 28 ...
It all began, says British Airways, on August 25, 1919, when the world’s first scheduled international flight between London and Paris took off with one passenger, plus some Devonshire cream and ...
Avios is the frequent flyer currency of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, LEVEL, Qatar Airways and Vueling, and can also be used for travel within the oneworld alliance including the likes of American Airlines, Japan Airlines, Qantas, etc. [91] A restructure in 2015 meant that all of IAG's affiliated loyalty programmes which use ...
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.
Go Fly (styled and trading as Go) was the name of a British low-cost airline, founded by British Airways in 1998. It operated flights between London Stansted Airport and destinations in Europe. The airline was purchased from BA in a management buyout backed by the private equity firm 3i in 2001.
Merged into British Airways: Northern & Scottish Airways: 1934: 1937: Merged to Scottish Airways and eventually British European Airways Northern Air Charter: 1947: 1948: Operated Airspeed Consul, de Havilland Dragon Rapide [295] Northern Air Lines: 1924: 1925: Went into liquidation. Operated Airco DH.9, de Havilland DH.50 [296] Northern Air ...