British Airways - Airlines

British Airways is one of the largest airlines in the United Kingdom and in the world with the trans-Atlantic flights from the European Center for British Airways operations at Heathrow and London Gatwick Airport, London and several smaller centers such as Manchester International Airport, and Manchester International Airport Birmingham, Birmingham.

Initial establishment of this airline started in the early days of flight and times after World War I. One of the early British Airways is the company Aircraft Transport and Travel (AT & T), which launched its first scheduled international flight in the world on August 25, 1919 between London and Paris. On March 31, 1924, then four British airlines - Instone, Handley Page, Daimler Airways (successor to AT & T), and British Air Marine Navigation - merged into Imperial Airways, which serves routes to Australia and Africa. The following year in 1925 Imperial Airways provides service to Paris, Brussels, Basel, Cologne and Zurich.

At the same time, several other small airlines merged in 1935 to form a private airline called British Airways Ltd. By the government, Imperial Airways and British Airways was nationalized in 1939 and formed British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). The routes to South America run by the British South American Airways (which later merged into BOAC in 1949) and domestic flights as well as to Europe operated by British European Airways (BEA), in addition to the routes, all operated by BOAC.

British Airways' first Boeing 747-400 landed at Hong Kong International Airport in the 1950s, the use of jet aircraft in the world started by BOAC De Havilland Comet to Johannesburg and then to the destination in South Africa in 1952. In 1972, BOAC and BEA merged into British Airways' board and fly with British Airways on behalf of 1974. BOAC and BEA is a leading UK operator of scheduled international passenger and cargo services in 1950 saw the world entering an era of passenger jets, led by BOAC, the Comet first flew to Johannesburg so that in 1952, halving the previous flight time.

With the establishment of the Air Transport Licensing Board in 1960, other British airlines began to compete to operate scheduled flights. Finally, some firms are smaller domestic airlines, including Cambrian Airways and BKS (later Northeast Airlines) into BEA ownership. Civil Aviation Act of 1980 passed by the Government to allow to sell its shares in British Airways

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