British Airways was offered up for sale by the British government.
This archive entry is actually from November 1986 reporting that the UK Department of Transport has announced that British Airways will be privatised "in the early weeks of 1987".
The announcement of BA's privatisation was beset with hold-ups including an anti-trust case in which the US and the UK were in continuous disagreement over laws affecting air services between the two countries.
Also in August of this year BA ordered 16 Boeing 747s, as pictured.
on October 21, 2008 8:33 PM | Reply
Although news content relevant - could you have found a worse picture.
on October 22, 2008 10:05 AM | Reply
Point taken, the picture's not great, but there was method in my madness. I was attempting something different. I wanted to draw attention to the actual pdf archive entry.