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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.
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.
The Government's conflict of interest as the sole owner of British Airways as well as the regulator for all British airlines. The 1976 "spheres of influence" policy that left both major British scheduled airlines with fragmented networks, thereby putting them at a competitive disadvantage vis-à-vis their main international rivals.
During the 1970s and '80s, British Caledonian became the UK's largest independent, international scheduled airline, with an extensive global route network serving ...
Founded as BEA Airtours, to Caledonian Airways: British Airways Ltd: 1935: 1940: Merged with Imperial Airways to form British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) British Airways Ltd (2012–2015) BA: BAT: GHERKIN: 2012: 2015: British Airways CitiExpress: TH: BRT: 2002: 2006: Renamed/merged to BA Connect: British Airways Express: TH: MXE: 1996: 2002
Most of the airlines that were major operators of "affinity group" charters/ABC flights had in fact already begun abandoning this market with the advent of "Skytrain" in the late 1970s. At the time British Caledonian, for example, whose predecessor Caledonian Airways had at one time been the dominant "affinity group" charter carrier across the ...
Laker Airways was a private British airline founded ... in 1970. The early 1970s saw the airline and its owner ... Airways came when British Caledonian ...
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