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100 years old next year?!
As exciting as new uniforms are [and I do think they are] the real bit of news snuck into this HFP piece was that BA is apparently 100 years old next year!! I read this forum semi regularly and like to think I'm a little more informed about the airline than most laypeople. How did this nugget escape me? And what pray tell celebrations do you think are in store? Apologies if this has already been covered, I did say semi-regularly on the reading front.
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To be fair it's been mentioned in quite a few comments within threads... but it's not had it's own thread. So this could be the start ! Although it's dubious that "British Airways" is 100 years old !
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Originally Posted by NoTiersForMe
(Post 30256129)
How did this nugget escape me?
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1919231-time-ba-flypast.html https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/about-ba/history-and-heritage/explore-our-past/1910-1919 (I'm not sure what we were doing sending grouse to Paris, but that's another matter). |
One Hundred Years ... of assorted British airlines post-WW1 that morphed and merged over the decades to eventually become BA.
BA was created in 1974 after a British Airways Board was established by the British government to manage the two nationalised airline corporations, British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways, and two regional airlines, Cambrian Airways from Cardiff, and Northeast Airlines from Newcastle upon Tyne. On 31 March 1974, all four companies were merged to form British Airways. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways |
Originally Posted by mikeyfly
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To be fair it's been mentioned in quite a few comments within threads... but it's not had it's own thread. So this could be the start ! Although it's dubious that "British Airways" is 100 years old !
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Originally Posted by NoTiersForMe
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.................Will be interesting how origins are glossed in any marketing in order to comply with advertising standards!
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Well they just 'celebrated' 80 years in Hong Kong by axing a load of staff and closing the cabin crew base there.
So, might be interesting times ahead.... |
I call “Fake News” ;)
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Certainly not BA as such. How many of us remember flying on BOAC and BEA before it became BA in 1974?
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Hopefully they’ll celebrate by getting a new J product on the market (as has been promised several times already). |
I'm a believer: I had a hundred year old meal in coach a couple of weeks ago. And, my luggage followed by biplane.
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As far as the airline is concerned, it is celebrating its centenary next year and has been exploring "novel" ways to celebrate this milestone for months. I have no idea where they are in the process now but if the powers that be stay true to form I imagine that they will take the cheapest option as opposed to the one that may engender the most good will (e.g. genuinely cheap flights at a promotional price).
Bob |
Sorry for the misunderstanding - upon initial reading of the title I thought this thread was going to be about (FT handle withheld on legal advice) one of our regular posters. ;) |
Originally Posted by dwugson
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Certainly not BA as such. How many of us remember flying on BOAC and BEA before it became BA in 1974?
I used to go to check in, get my boarding pass and wander to the gate, no checked baggage, no olci and no security. Walk across the apron and up the steps. As a youngster I always remember the BEA crew fussing over me. Now I'm old and knackered the BA crew do the same^ |
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