BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corp.)

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♦ On 24Nov1939, BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corp.) was created by Act of Parliament to become the British state airline by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways (i). Operations started on 01Apr1940, BOAC absorbed BSAA in 1949 and on 31Mar1974, both BOAC and BEA were dissolved, and their operations merged to form British Airways (ii), along with Northeastern Airlines, BEA (British European Airways) and Cambrian Airways
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♦ 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 30Mar2012
< scheduled passenger and cargo services and is the UK flag carrier > ♦