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On St. Andrew's Day (30 November) in 1970, Caledonian Airways acquired British United Airways (BUA) from British and Commonwealth (B&C) for £6.9 million. [1] [2] [3] Caledonian Airways also purchased three new BAC One-Eleven 500 aircraft, which B&C had leased to BUA, for a further £5 million. [4] [3]
The British Caledonian Group expected its turnover to exceed half-a-billion pounds while BCal expected to carry just under two-and-a-half million passengers. The year's crowning glory was to be the flotation of the British Caledonian Group on the London Stock Exchange. [108] [113] [114]
A third ex Laker Airways DC-10-10 was acquired in 1986 and re-registered G-GCAL. Occasional ad hoc charter work was also undertaken which saw the companies DC-10s flying to destinations all over the world. In 1988 British Caledonian was bought by and merged into British Airways. Cal Air International was of no interest to British Airways.
2018 (31 March): British Airways is the first passenger airline to have generated more than US$1bn (£800m) on a single air route in a year, between London Heathrow and New York JFK.
Part of British Airways: British Aviation Services: 1946: 1962: British Caledonian: BR: BCA: CALEDONIAN: 1971: 1988: Merged into British Airways: British Caledonian Charter: JB: 1982: 1985: Merged into Cal Air International: British Cargo Airlines: FF: 1979: 1980: Formed by merger of Transmeridian Air Cargo and IAS Cargo Airlines. Operated ...
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British Airtours (stylised as British aırtours) was a charter airline in the United Kingdom with flight operations out of London Gatwick and Manchester Airports.. Established as BEA Airtours in 1969, it became a wholly owned subsidiary of British Airways (BA) following the merger between British European Airways (BEA) and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) in the early 1970s.
Caledonian Airways was the brainchild of Adam Thomson, a former British European Airways (BEA) Viscount pilot and ex-Britavia captain, and John de la Haye, a former BEA flight steward and Cunard Eagle's erstwhile New York office manager.