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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 ...
Bankrupt and rebranded to ITA Airways [46] Berkut Air: Kazakhstan: 2011 Rebranded British Airways: United Kingdom: 1987 Privatised [47] Cabo Verde Airlines: Cabo Verde: 2019 Privatized [48] Cameroon Airlines: Cameroon: 2008 Ceased operations Cyprus Airways (1947–2015) Cyprus: 2015 Bankruptcy Czech Airlines: Czech Republic: 2024 Shut down ...
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 ...
Olympic Airways – at first, then Olympic Airlines; the Hellenic State attempted to privatise the ailing airlines five times, more or less, from 2004 onwards. The company was folded and re-created in 2009, and privatized in 2012, under the supervision of the EU and IMF, as it was part of the debt-restructuring process of 2012.
This category includes articles on industries and companies that were nationalised by the government of the United Kingdom (but which were later re-privatised) and the legislation that brought them into state ownership.
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.
A. A2B Airways; AB Airlines; AB Shannon; Aberdeen Airways (1934) Aberdeen Airways (1989) Aberdeen London Express; ACE Freighters; ACE Scotland; African Air Safaris
On 24 November 1939, BOAC was created by the British Overseas Airways Act 1939 to become the British state airline, formed from the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. The companies had been operating together since war was declared on 3 September 1939, when their operations were evacuated from the London area to Bristol. On 1 ...