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The British Airways "Face" advertisement was a television commercial campaign by British Airways in 1989. The commercial was made by advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi, having been written by Graham Fink and Jeremy Clarke, with Hugh Hudson as director. [1] [2] It is often considered to be a television commercial classic.
The "Dirty Tricks" scandal was a series of concerted campaigns by British Airways (BA) in the 1990s seeking to undermine their rival, Virgin Atlantic. Concerned by the prospect of an upcoming challenger, Lord King, Chairman of British Airways, told his chief executive "do something about Branson". The ensuing campaign involved BA ...
British Airways purchased the internet domain ba.com in 2002 from previous owner Bell Atlantic, [162] 'BA' being the company's initialism and its IATA Airline code. [163] 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 ...
Rosalind Anne Rosemary Hanby (born 2 October 1951) [3] is an English former flight attendant notable for being the face of British Airways in their "Fly the Flag" advertising campaign over a seven-year period starting in the mid-1970s through the 1980s. She became a minor celebrity as a result, working as a television presenter before becoming ...
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 ...
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.
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.
In October 2010, Magill participated in the British Airways "Save the Postcard" campaign. [4] In April 2011, Magill contributed a piece of work to the Harestyling exhibition to raise funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital. [5] Her piece was later auctioned at a celebrity ball for over £2000. [6]