Latest update - end of December 2008

Thanks for visiting airlinehistory.co.uk. The links down the left hand side provide the first introduction to airline details. This will be added to over the coming weeks.

Total airlines = 15,514 with 292updates including 70 new entries

Please take time to check out the wonderful collection of Airline Tickets provided by Gklavas Athanasios.

IATA (2 letter airline identification code) and the 3 letter ICAO codes are included where known. The former came into being in the early 1950s and the latter in 1987.

At present the site contains 259 countries (past and present) and regions. As before, please select any region to access it's countries. To search within a country, please use CTL+F. 

Please click on the image link to the left for the online portal for connecting ex British Caledonian employees around the world.

My continuing thanks go to Dave Nuttman. Dave is an avid collector of in-flight magazines and he is helping out with some of the airlines in the unknown  category.

Another thank you goes to  as I have picked up some good information from this unusual but fascinating site.

Maintained and updated by David Lyall. Thanks also to the people who have responded and I would appreciate any further feedback (positive or negative) on Airline History.

Thanks to .AirlineLogos.net for the logos and Flags courtesy of ITA's Flags of All Countries