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History Special: five decades of the 747 at British Airways
Posted by Charles Kennedy on
British Airways was formed by the March 1974 merger of Britain’s two state-owned flag carriers — BEA (British European Airways) which covered short and medium haul trips with an entirely British-built fleet of Tridents, BAC-111s, Viscounts and Vanguards, and BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) which flew intercontinental with a fleet of British-built VC-10s and American Boeing 707s. BOAC were considering all options including the stretched Douglas DC-8-63 and Vickers’ homegrown Super-Super VC-10, a reimagined Super VC-10 that never left the drawing board. Factors that influenced BOAC towards the Boeing 747 were the obvious savings to be achieved...
Britannia Airways, the “BA of leisure carriers"
Posted by Charles Kennedy on
Britannia Airways was formed in 1961 as Euravia, to provide the airline component of package tours sold by Universal Sky Tours.It was based at Luton airport and started flying in May 1962 with a trio of second-hand piston-powered Lockheed Constellations