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Goldman Sachs, the investment bank that worked on SAS's bid for 26% of the British Caledonian Group's common stock, proposed this to be structured as a so-called "exploding share". This would have enabled SAS to increase its holding in British Caledonian Group plc to a maximum of 40% through subsequent acquisition of additional non-voting shares.
The official handover ceremony of British Airways' first Concorde occurred on 15 January 1976 at Heathrow Airport. Air France Concorde (F-BTSC) at Charles de Gaulle Airport on 25 July 1975, exactly 25 years before the accident in 2000 British Airways Concorde in Singapore Airlines livery at Heathrow Airport in 1979 Air France Concorde (F-BTSD) with a short-lived promotional Pepsi livery in ...
Cal Air International, [nb 13] the former British Caledonian Charter operation, [25] [166] and British Caledonian Flight Training were not included in BA's acquisition of the British Caledonian Group. [166] British Airtours, BA's wholly owned, Gatwick-based charter subsidiary, was rebranded Caledonian Airways.
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 Canadair CL-44, DC-8-40 [80] [81] British Caribbean Airways: EO ...
The supersonic aircraft suffered a catastrophic crash in Paris on 25 July 2000
[N 1] Concorde's pilots and British Airways in official publications often refer to Concorde both in the singular and plural as "she" or "her". [209] In 2006, 37 years after its first test flight, Concorde was announced the winner of the Great British Design Quest organised by the BBC (through The Culture Show) and the Design Museum.
The fuel burn for Concorde was four times more than today’s British Airways Airbus A350, which carries three times as many passengers. Twenty-first-century travellers are far more comfortable.
As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.