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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Mar 31, 2024 9:37:46 GMT -5
Hi,
On this date British Airways was formed.
What year?
What airlines merged?
Prize is a free down load of any of my classic aircraft. 😁😁
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Post by Bernard on Mar 31, 2024 13:16:52 GMT -5
Wikipedia says "BA was created in 1974 after a British Airways Board was established by the British government to manage the two nationalised airline corporations, British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways, and two regional airlines, Cambrian Airways and Northeast Airlines. On 31 March 1974, all four companies were merged to form British Airways".
And we have March 31, 2024, fifty-years later. Happy birthday!
Bernard
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Post by nmlw on Mar 31, 2024 15:48:44 GMT -5
I had no clue and Bernard beat me to the Wikipedia info, so I guess he gets the free download.
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Post by Jorge on Mar 31, 2024 16:37:19 GMT -5
Interesting that Easter falls on the anniversary this year! Of course, I would've failed since I was thinking this BA  : British Airways, Ltd. (1935)And what is possibly the most famous photograph of the original company -- when P.M. Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich, courtesey of the online WW2 Database: Neville Chamberlain at Heston.What's interesting is that the original B.A. had the distinction of having the fastest civil transports in service within the U.K. at the time: Lockheed 14 airliners. That's why the government chose to contract with them instead of using Imperial Airways to ferry Chamberlain to the negotiations. Jorge Miami, FL |
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Mar 31, 2024 16:59:32 GMT -5
What happened to them? Became BOAC?
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Post by Jorge on Mar 31, 2024 17:57:59 GMT -5
Yes. They were merged by the gov't with Imperial Airways to become BOAC on 1 September 1939 when war was declared on Germany.
Jorge
Miami, FL
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Mar 31, 2024 18:14:06 GMT -5
That makes sense, thanks.
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