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British Caledonian (BCal) was a private independent airline in the United Kingdom that operated from 1970 until it merged with British Airways in 1988. It operated primarily from London Gatwick Airport in south-east England.
A British Caledonian Boeing 707-320C. In December 1987, following substantial losses, the private, British independent [ nb 1 ] airline British Caledonian (BCal) was taken over by newly privatised British Airways (BA).
The Caribbean Airways and Air Seychelles contracts used spare capacity on BCal's DC-10-30s, while the Surinam Airways wet lease utilised the ex-Laker DC-10-10s operated by British Caledonian Charter. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] Although BCal's airline operation incurred a loss of £655,000 in the financial year to 31 October 1983, the airline managed to make ...
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.
British Caledonian (BCal) came into being in November 1970 when the Scottish charter airline Caledonian Airways, at the time Britain's second-largest, wholly privately owned, independent [nb 1] airline, took over British United Airways (BUA), then the largest British independent airline as well as the United Kingdom's leading independent scheduled carrier.
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.