In 1997 British Airways (BA) adopted a new livery.One part of this was a newly stylised version of the British Airways "Speedbird" logo, the "Speedmarque", but the major change was the introduction of tail-fin art.Also known as the Utopia, World Tails and world image tailfins, they used art and designs from international artists and other sources to represent countries on BA's …

British Airways Helicopters was a British helicopter airline from 1964 to 1986. History. British European Airways Sikorsky S-51 G-AJHW in 1953 ... A scheduled passenger service was operated during 1950 between Cardiff (Pengam Moors), ... It was responsible for engineering and maintenance of the BAA-owned helicopter and for providing the flight ...

British Mediterranean Airways was established as a limited company in 1994 by a group of private investors led by Lord Hesketh. It began operations on 28 October that year. [citation needed] The airline operated the Airbus A320 from London Heathrow to Beirut, Lebanon.Damascus in Syria and Amman in Jordan were added to the network the following …

British Airways Ltd was a British airline company operating in Europe in the period 1935–1939. It was formed in 1935 by the merger of Spartan Air Lines Ltd, United Airways Ltd (no relation to the US carrier United Airlines), and Hillman's Airways. Its corporate emblem was a winged lion.

British Airways serves destinations across all six inhabited continents. Following is a list of destinations the airline flies to, as of October 2020; terminated destinations are also listed.The list does not include cities served solely by affiliated regional carriers, and some terminated destinations may now be served either via franchise or through codeshare agreements with …

Aircraft. The aircraft involved was a Boeing 747-436, wearing the British Airways Ndebele Martha ethnic livery, registration G-BNLM, delivered to British Airways on 28 June 1990.. Incident. At around 05:00 local time, the cockpit of a British Airways Boeing 747-400 on a scheduled flight from Gatwick to Jomo Kenyatta Airport was stormed by a mentally unstable …

British Airways Flight 268 was a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles to London Heathrow.On February 20, 2005, the innermost left engine burst into flames triggered by an engine compressor stall almost immediately after take off from LAX. The 747-400 continued to fly across the United States, Canada, and the Atlantic Ocean with its three remaining engines …

British Airways Flight 5390 was a flight from Birmingham Airport in England for Málaga Airport in Spain. On 10 June 1990, the BAC One-Eleven 528FL suffered explosive decompression resulting in no loss of life. While the aircraft was flying over Didcot, Oxfordshire, an improperly installed windscreen panel separated from its frame causing the captain to be sucked out of the aircraft.

British Airways (BA), the United Kingdom's national airline, 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 the completion of a consolidation process started in …

Cardiff Airport (Welsh: Maes Awyr Caerdydd) (IATA: CWL, ICAO: EGFF) is the only airport offering commercial passenger services in Wales.It has been under the ownership of the Welsh Government since March 2013, operating at an arm's length as a commercial business. Passenger numbers were 1.66 million in 2019 and were increasing year-on-year. Since 2020, …