British Airways plc (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in London, England, near its main hub at Heathrow Airport.
A Boeing 747-100 in BOAC-British Airways transition livery (1976)
A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident in its transitional scheme with BEA livery but with British Airways titles.
British Airways' first Concorde at Heathrow Airport, on 15 January 1976.
A British Airways Lockheed TriStar in Landor livery
An airline hub or hub airport is an airport used by one or more airlines to concentrate passenger traffic and flight operations. Hubs serve as transfer points to help get passengers to their final destination. It is part of the hub-and-spoke system. An airline may operate flights from several non-hub (spoke) cities to the hub airport, and passengers traveling between spoke cities connect through the hub. This paradigm creates economies of scale that allow an airline to serve city-pairs that could otherwise not be economically served on a non-stop basis. This system contrasts with the point-to-point model, in which there are no hubs and nonstop flights are instead offered between spoke cities. Hub airports also serve origin and destination (O&D) traffic.
The primary hub of British Airways is Heathrow Airport in London
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