History of British Airways
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The predecessor companies of British Airways, the United Kingdom's national airline, go back to five airlines established in the United Kingdom between 1916 and 1922. The first of these was Aircraft T
Heathrow Airport has been the main hub of British Airways since its formation; most activity has been based in the Terminal 5 complex since 2008.
Imperial Airways Handley Page H.P.42. Hanno in 1931
BOAC de Havilland Comet 1 at Heathrow Airport in 1953
BOAC Boeing 707-400 at Heathrow Airport in 1960
British Overseas Airways Corporation was the British state-owned national airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. It continued operating overseas services th
History of British Airways
…scheduled international flight for commercial aviation in 1919. The present company was formed in 1974 with the merger of the two largest UK airlines, British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British European Airways (BEA), and including also two smaller regional airlines, Cambrian Airways and Northeast Airlines. The merger was…
Pictured in 1970, this BOAC Boeing 747 marked the first arrival of a wide-bodied airliner to Manchester Airport.
A BOAC Boeing 314 Clipper lands on Lagos Lagoon, 1943
BOAC Avro York freighter operating a scheduled service at Heathrow in 1953
BOAC Short Solent 3 G-AHIN Southampton served the airline's route from the UK along the Nile to Johannesburg between 1948 and 1950