AT&T (Aircraft Transport & Travel)

♦  AT&T (Aircraft Transport & Travel) was founded on 05/Oct/1916 and services started 25/Aug/1919. AT&T carries the first international air mail , London to Paris. The first flight was by DH4A and an Air Mail pennant was attached to its rudder. AT&T continued to operate, but Daimler-BSA withdrew support, and overcome with debt in Nov1920 it was placed in liquidation, and on 17/Dec/1920, it ran its last service. Early in 1921, its assets were purchased by Daimler and rolled with Daimler Air Hire Limited into a new company called Daimler Airway which continued the services

[ – Daimler Airway was founded on 09/Sep/1921. Commenced operations on 02Apr1922 & ceased on 01Apr1924 to help form Imperial Airways]

[ – BA Merged with IMPERIAL AIRWAYS to form BOAC in 1940]

[ – British Airways (ii) – Following the recommendations of the 1969 Edwards Report that a new British Airways Board, managing both BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corp.), BEA (British European Airways), and the two regional British airlines Cambrian Airways based at Cardiff, and Northeast Airlines based at Newcastle upon Tyne, was constituted on 01Apr1972, establishing British Airways as an airline on 31Mar1974. BA started operations on 01Apr1974. British Asia Airways, a subsidiary based in Taiwan, was formed in March 1993 to operate between London and Taipei. The carrier acquired BCAL (British Caledonian Airways) (1988) and Dan-Air (1992). In Jul2008, British Airways announced a merger plan with Iberia, another flag carrier airline in the Oneworld alliance, wherein each airline would retain its original brand. bmi was purchased on 30/Mar/2012
< scheduled passenger and cargo services and is the UK flag carrier > ]