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FLIGHT International, 2/ March 1974 Britannia Airways was formed in Decem ber 1961 under the name Euravia (London) and began commercial opera tions in May 1962, with a fleet of Constellations, under contract to Uni versal Sky Tours, then the principal shareholder. In 1965 the company be came a wholly owned subsidiary of the Thomson Organisation. Passenger and cargo charters and inclusive-tour opera tions are undertaken. A subsidiary com pany is Luton Aircraft Engineers. Head Office: Luton Airport, Luton, Bedfordshire, England. Executives: Chairman, Lord Thomas of Remenham; managing director, J. H. Sauvage; assistant managing director/ operations director, Capt D. H. Davison; commercial/financial director, R. Muckle-ston; projects/development director, P. Swift; technical director, J. Little. Employees: 1,000. Fleet: 12 Boeing 737-200, two 737-200C. British Air Ferries (BAF) was formed in January 1963 as a result of merging Channel Air Bridge (founded in 1959) and Silver City Airways (founded in 1948). Both operated cross-channel vehicle and passenger ferry services. The merged company was known as British United Air Ferries until Sep tember 1967, when the present title was adopted. BAF was owned by Air Hold ings until October 1971 when the com pany was taken over by Transmeridian Air Cargo of Stansted. Shareholding is currently divided between TMAC with 76% and Alan Judd and an associated merchant bank with 24%. Scheduled passenger-cargo and vehicle-ferry ser vices are operated from Southend Air port to Le Touquet, Ostend, Rotterdam and Basle. The Ostend and Le Touquet services link with rail connections to Brussels, Amsterdam and Paris. Head Office: Southend Airport, South-end-on-Sea, Essex. Executives: Chairman, T. D. Keegan; directors: L. L. Orr; C. St George; A. Judd; M. B. Hacker. Employees: 300. Fleet: Eight Carvair. British Air Services—see British Airways Regional Division. The British Airways Board (BAB) was established by the Civil Aviation Act of 1971 to exercise control over what has since become the seven operating divi sions defined as the British Airways Group (BAG) and brought together on September I, 1972. The Board is respon sible for the direction of finance, plan ning, management services, personnel, legal, safety and public relations mat ters throughout the Group. The operat ing divisions, each with its own commer cial and marketing integrity, are detailed below. In addition, the British Airways Travel Division, formed in February 1973, handles UK sales on behalf of the European, Overseas and Regional Divi sions. From April 1, 1974 the air corpor ations will be dissolved and the whole Group will trade as a single airline under the name British Airways. The airline has more than 220 aircraft, total assets of over £500 million and annual revenues of nearly £500 million, half of which is earned overseas. It is one of the world's two biggest carriers of in ternational air traffic and claims the world's biggest and most comprehensive network. Head Office: Victoria Terminal, Buck ingham Palace Road, London SW1. Executives: Chairman, David L. Nicol-son; managing director, Henry Mark ing; deputy managing director/planning director, S. F. Wheatcroft; deputy man aging director, Ross Stainton; financial director, D. H. Glover; personnel director, Howard Phelps; management services director, Peter Hermon; public relations director, Alan Ponsford; group legal adviser, R. M. Forrest; secretary, E. G. Johnson; board members, Cyril Herring; Roy Edwards; William de Vigier; Prof Sir Ronald Edwards; Alan Fisher; John Gardiner; Peter Parker; Jennifer Tanburn. Employees: 928. The seven Divisions of British Airways are as follows:— European Division (previously the British European Airways Corpora tion and BEA Division) was in corporated as a state enterprise in August 1946, and since its foundation has become the biggest operator of air services in Europe. The route net work of scheduled passenger and cargo services extends to all major cities of Europe, together with a number of points in the Middle East. More than a third of the European Division's effort goes into domestic operations within the UK, and most international services are operated in pool with European carriers. Main base is at Heathrow. The Division itself is divided into three entities, the Super One-Eleven Division, the Directory 25 on April 1, 1946, and this airline was responsible for all British flag ser vices to the USA, Middle East and the Commonwealth. In 1949 it took over British South American Airways, which had operated services to Latin America. In May 1952 the airline in troduced the world's first commercial jet services with the Comet 1. BOAC operations steadily expanded and the route network is the world's largest, linking the UK with every continent. The airline has several round-the-world routes. Services from London through East Africa, across the Indian Ocean via the Seychelles and Sri Lanka to the Far East began in 1972 and a direct link was opened between South Africa and the Far East via Seychelles and Sri Lanka in 1973. British Overseas Air Charter (formed in 1971 to operate charter and in clusive-tour services using Boeing Cargo Division and British Airtours Ltd (formerly BEA Airtours) founded in 1969 to operate charter and in clusive-tour services from Gatwick using Boeing 707-436 iets acquired from BOAC. Head Office: Bealine House, Ruislip, Middlesex. Executives: Chief Executive, Roy Watts; deputy chief executive, Capt E. W. Lowden; chief engineer, J. E. Garton; planning director, E. E. Pell; financial director, R. E. Spencer; marketing director, C. Stuart; personnel director, R. Wyatt; flight-operations director, Capt C. Owens; director Cargo Divisions, J. L. Guy; director Super One-Eleven Division, Capt R. E. Preston; managing direc tor British Airtours, Capt W. Baillie; general manager/operations, E. L. Killip; flight manager, Capt P. J. McKeown; engineering manager, J. Marshall; cabin services manager, R. Thorburn; secretary, T. M. Ankers. Employees: 21,961. Fleet: 20 Trident 1C, 15 Trident 2E, 26 Trident 3B, 18 One-Eleven 500, five Vanguard, nine Merchantman (with Cargo Div), nine Boeing 707-436 (with Airtours). On order: Nine TriStar, three Merchantman conversions. Overseas Division (previously the British Overseas Airways Corporation and BOAC Division) was established in 1939 to acquire and merge the undertakings of Imperial Airways (founded in 1924 and tracing its an cestry back to 1919 when the world's first scheduled passenger services were initiated) and the original British Airways (founded in 1935 by merging three smaller private airlines). BOAC began operations on April 1, 1940, maintaining essential wartime air services. Revenue operations began 'few:' H 707-436s specially modified to carry 174 passengers and chartered from BOAC) remains with the Overseas Division for the time being. However, it may be merged with British Air tours in due course. Head Office: Speedbird House, Heathrow Airport, Hounslow, Middle sex. Executives: Chief Executive, Ross Stainton; deputy chief executive. B. W. Bampfylde; engineering director, C. W. Abell; commercial director, T. Orpin; chief engineer, J. G. Romeril; flight operations director, Capt Frank Walton; planning director, A. W. Finlay; financial director, K. W. Red dish; personnel director, E. P. Gost-ling; chief of support survices, E. R. Major; secretary, R. Wood; BOA Charter Ltd chairman, B. W. Bamp fylde; chief executive. T. J. Glover; director; Capt W. Baillie; A. W. Finlav; K. W. Reddish; R. J. Walden; B. Wood. Employees: 23,311. Fleet: ' 15 Boeing 747-100, two 707- 336B, nine 707-336C. nine 707436, 16 Super VC10, nine VC10. On order: Two 747, five Concorde. British Airways Regional Division com prises what was British Air Services (operating as Northeast Airlines, Cam brian Airways and Airways Engin eering) and the Scottish Airways and Channel Islands Airways Divisions of BEA. Main role of the Regional Divi sion is to operate scheduled passenger and cargo services over internal routes in the UK, international ser vices from the provinces to major cities on the Continent, and some services from London to provincial cities in Europe. All four airlines are expected to keep their names in order
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