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	British Airways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		British Airways, faced with likely defeat, settled the case giving £500,000 to Branson and a further £110,000 to his airline; further, BA was to pay the legal fees of up to £3 million.
		British Airways is pioneering the use of "flat beds" in the premium cabins on their long-haul routes and have the most flat beds of any airline on their aircraft.
		On 8 September 2004 British Airways announced that it was to sell its 18.5% stake in Qantas, but would continue their alliance (such as sharing revenue), particularly on the Kangaroo routes.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/British_Airways (2310 words)

	British Overseas Airways Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the exclusive British state airline from 1939 until 1946 and the long-haul British state airline from 1946.
		BOAC was merged with British European Airways in 1974 to form British Airways, following a British Act of Parliament in 1971.
		During the 1930s, 1940s and until November 1950 Imperial Airways and then BOAC operated flying boat services from Southampton to colonial possessions in Africa and Asia.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/BOAC (369 words)

	Ray Betts British Commentary - Cairo to the Cape by Imperial Air (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Therefore Imperial Airways had constructed some 57 landing fields, 30 of which were little more than clearings that occasionally required the builders to act as big game hunters who had "...to drive away the lions and elephants that fought to preserve the sanctity of the bush," according to an early air enthusiast, Sir Harry Brittain.
		Even with the early success of such vast air routes maintained by Imperial Airways, British critics argued that the national focus on connecting the British Empire by air as it had earlier been by the famous "red line" (maritime routes) was purblind.
		While Imperial Airways had a large network (18,000 miles to 23 countries in 1936), it actually lagged behind France, Germany and the United States in passenger air miles traveled and aircraft in service.
	www.britannia.com /travel/betts/imperial.html (1129 words)

	Bahrain international Airport -- History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Imperial Airways, the forerunner of what was to become BOAC and then British Airways (BA) operated several proving flights through the Gulf in the late twenties, before starting scheduled services.
		According to records, the first Imperial Airways flight to Bahrain was in August 1927 when a local pearl merchant chartered a de Havilland aircraft from Baghdad to Bahrain.
		The Handley Page HP 42 was to become the standard long-haul aircraft for Imperial Airways and was used on the route between the UK and India after the airline began scheduled services via Basrah, Bahrain and Sharjah, with Kuwait added soon after as an optional calling point.
	www.bahrainairport.com /bia/bia_history.htm (1007 words)

	Imperial Airways biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Imperial Airways was an early British commercial air transport company, operating from 1924 to 1939.
		Imperial Airways Limited was formed in March 1924 from the British Marine Air Navigation Company Ltd (three aircraft), the Daimler Airway (five aircraft), Handley-Page Transport Ltd (three aircraft) and the Instone Air Line Ltd (two aircraft).
		The journey the Cape consisted of flights to Marseilles, Rome, Brindisi, Athens, Alexandria, Khartoum, Port Bell, Kisumu and onwards by land-based craft to Nairobi, Mbeya and eventually Cape Town.
	imperial-airways.biography.ms (549 words)

	Imperial Airways: the Eastern Route (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The aim of the Imperial Airways Eastern Route, along with the parallel development of the Imperial Airways African Route, was to link the countries of the British Empire by a modern communications system.
		It was flown by ANA to Brisbane and by Qantas to Darwin on 26 April.
		The Imperial Airways Africa route was extended to South Africa with the first regular airmail leaving England on 20 January 1932.
	www.nzstamps.fsnet.co.uk /air/external/eastern/easternroute.html (2605 words)

	Imperial Airways Route to Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Eastern Route of Imperial Airways was gradually extended with the first flight to Hong Kong being in March 1936.
		At Penang there was a tight connection on 2 May with the Imperial Airways Eastern Route leg from Penang to Singapore.
		Imperial Airways had always intended that the feeder service to Hong Kong should connect with the Eastern Route at Bangkok.
	www.nzstamps.fsnet.co.uk /air/external/eastern/hk.html (915 words)

	Air Transportation: The Beginning of British Commercial Aviation
		Imperial Airways flew to various locations in Europe using old De Havilland DH 34 airplanes.
		Imperial Airways used Handley-Page W8b planes to fly to various locations in Europe.
		Imperial Airways' mandate was to serve as “the chosen instrument of the state for the development of air travel on a commercial basis.” Thus ended the first pioneering phase of British air transport.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Commercial_Aviation/britain/Tran18.htm (1172 words)

	Airline History - Airlines by index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Imperial Airways never really made a success of European routes although it had a scheduled network to Paris, Brussels, Cologne, Basle and Zurich from 1924 using the Handley Page W.8b aircraft that were originally owned by H.P.A.T. Imperial Airways
		Imperial Airways was hampered commercially by the restriction of using British aircraft only at this time.
		Shortly after this a further decision was made to merge Imperial Airways and British Airways into a new state-owned national airline and so British Overseas Airways Corporation - B.O.A.C. - was formed on 24 November 1939 and Imperial Airways ceased to exist.
	airlines.afriqonline.com /airlines/522.htm (1188 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Flying the Furrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I once had [Imperial Airways chairman] Sir Eric Geddes standing beside me in the cockpit saying 'You're supposed to be doing 100 mph,' and I said 'Well, the aircraft won't do it!' He was annoyed.
		The last British biplanes operated by Imperial Airways on the Cairo-Baghdad run were both tri-motors: the De Havilland DH66 Hercules, which carried seven passengers at 178 kph (110 mph), and the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, which carried 20 passengers at 155 kph (96 mph).
		As Imperial Airways was fond of naming its aircraft after distant destination cities, the first of its flying boats, which reached Alexandria in July 1928, was a three-engined, 12-passenger "Calcutta-type" aircraft named City of Alexandria.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/200102/flying.the.furrow.htm (3331 words)

	British Midlands Airways -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		British Airways Ltd was not really a competitor to the better known Imperial Airways which flew to far-flung parts of the British Empire, enjoyed state subsidy, and used British-built aircraft, often antiquated.
		The airline was established on 31 March 2002 from the merger of British Airways subsidiaries Brymon Airways and British Regional Airlines (acquired by BA in 2001).
		British Mediterranean Airways was established in 1994 by a group of private investors and began operations on 28 October that year with an Airbus A320, flying from London Heathrow to Beirut, the Lebanese capital.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/23/british-midlands-airways.html (1612 words)

	Airline History - Airlines by index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The new Imperial Airways would be Britain's first flag carrier and many of it's successes between the world wars were in pioneering long-haul routes to British 'empire' destinations in Australalia, the Far East and Egypt.
		But this long range, low density variant of the Tristar became of less use to British Airways and the series 500 fleet was sold to the Royal Air Force in 1983 for conversion to tanker for use on the long route to the Falkland Islands after the British-Argentinan conflict over those islands.
		British Airways has re-fitted the vulnerable areas under and inside the wings and the first passenger service was on 7 November 2001 although test flights were carried out in the previous month.
	airlines.afriqonline.com /airlines/731.htm (2313 words)

	Captain Douglas Cowan Fraser
		As an employee of Imperial Airways Fraser flew forest-fire patrols, timber surveys, inspections of road and bridge construction, geodetic, geological and meteorological surveys and mercy missions to all parts of Newfoundland.
		The two Fox Moths, VO-ABC, VO-ADE which Imperial Airways operated in Newfoundland were damaged in a severe storm in September 1935; one was completely put out of operation while extensive repairs were needed to make the other airworthy.
		Imperial Airways transferred Fraser to London, England where, after completing training for blind flying in a Tiger Moth, he was made a Co-pilot on the Company's London-Paris route, flying a Handley.
	www.angelfire.com /nf/nutting (1836 words)

	Air Crash Mail of the Imperial Airways
		The book includes a photo or illustration of nearly every Imperial Airways and predecessors’ aircraft that crashed or had a forced landing and shows a cover and every known variety of cachet, label, manuscript marking or post office explanation, where mail has been recorded.
		This is based on the author’s extensive collection of Imperial Airways crash mail, as well as years of research by the author in archives, newspaper libraries, early aviation magazines, and consulting over fifty books, magazines and other publications.
		Imperial Airways and Predecessors Aircraft That Crashed or Were Interrupted,
	www.stampdomain.com /aero/imperial.htm (375 words)

	Air BP - the early years - 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A less spectacular happening in 1924 was the formation of the British national airline, Imperial Airways, on 1st April.
		The four survivors of the privately-owned airlines that had pioneered commercial flying in the UK since the war had encountered growing financial problems but merged into a single company which was kept solvent by government subsidies and preferential treatment.
		In April 1924, the fleet of the newly-established Imperial Airways consisted of seven single-engined de Havilland 34s, two Sea Eagle amphibians, three twin-engined Handley Page W.8bs and one Vickers Vimy - a fat-fuselage version of the former bomber used on Alcock and Brown's transatlantic flight five years earlier.
	www.airbp.com /airbp/public/generalinterest/earlydays/birth.html (593 words)

	Air Mails of New Zealand: The Overseas Flights - 1928-1940 (page8) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In fact, this was the return service of the flights recorded under '4/4/31', but as it transpired, the crash of the Imperial Airways airliner "City of Cairo" on April 19 at Koepang during its flight to Australia, made necessary some interesting changes to the itinerary.
		Imperial Airways had now separated their London-Karachi and London-Cape town routes at Athens rather than Cairo as was previously the case, whilst Gaza had been replaced by the stop at Tiberias westbound, with a short car journey to Haifa on the Mediterranean coast.
		By Imperial Airways on a reduced schedule with postage rate increased to one shilling and sixpence for a standard half ounce letter.
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /wclark/page8.htm (6831 words)

	Journal of Transport History, The: Passenger traffic in the 1930s on British imperial air routes: refinement and ...
		After its African and Asian services were operational Imperial relaxed its monopoly of air links with Europe and a second British flag carrier, British Airways Ltd, was created in 1936 to serve northern European centres.
		True to its name, Imperial Airways was the flag airline of the inter-war British Empire.
		Qualitative information on Imperial's passengers is scrappy and mostly anecdotal.7 Even so, the impression it leaves of variation and questions still to be answered makes it different from information about the volume of empire air passengers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3884/is_200403/ai_n9394507 (1317 words)

	channel4.com - science - speed machines
		1924 The British government sets up Imperial Airways, its first international airline, to serve the national interest and to connect the Empire together.
		1935 Imperial Airways commission the aircraft manufacturer Shorts to design a new class of flying boat, the Empire flying boats.
		Bomber technology, which developed throughout the war, the widespread construction of runways and burgeoning jet technology signal the end of the flying boat.
	www.channel4.com /science/microsites/S/speedmachines/flyingboats_timeline.html (586 words)

	Air Transportation: Overview
		It quickly drove competing airliners from the airways, and went on to dominate American aviation.
		Trippe's airline, Pan American World Airways, started with its 90-mile (145-kilometer) route in 1927 from Florida to Cuba and completed its conquest of Latin America in 1930, with 20,308 miles (32,683 kilometers) of airway in 20 Latin American countries.
		Braniff Airways gambled that new aircraft would help it recover market share—only to fly into a time of high fuel prices, high interest rates, and a new recession that cut into passenger demand.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Commercial_Aviation/Tran-OV.htm (2710 words)

	Imperial Airways The British Airline
		On 31st March 1924 BMANC was to amalgamate with three other British Companies to form Imperial Airways, under whose auspices this service ran until discontinued in 1929.
		Imperial Airways did not get very much with the merger, they inherited 1,760-miles of cross-Channel routes, and a collection of mostly obsolete aircraft of which five were unserviceable.
		Imperial Airways operational statistics for the period of April 1924, to the end of May, 1928, show it has flown 3,392,126 miles on its Continental and mid-east routes, and has carried 73,059 passengers and 2.715 tons of mail and merchandise.
	billvons.com /imperial_airways (1203 words)

	Articles - British Overseas Airways Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On September 1, 1972 the British Airways Board was formed, a holding board that controlled BOAC and BEA.
		On March 31, 1974 both BOAC and BEA were dissolved and their operations merged to form British Airways.
		Evolutions of the BOAC logo inherited from Imperial Airways, the Speedbird, continue to be used as the logo for British Airways, and continues to be used as BA's call sign.
	www.kimia-sains.com /articles/BOAC (489 words)

	Clyde North Aeronautical Preservation Group - CNAPG.
		The aircraft was acquired by Imperial Airways and was registered as G-ACWD.
		The aircraft was acquired by MacRobertson Miller Airways and re-registered as VH-USW.
		The aircraft was acquired by Imperial Airways and was named Dione.
	www.cnapg.org /express.htm (850 words)

	1938 in aviation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Imperial Airways inaugurates scheduled service from London to Montreal.
		Pan American World Airways is banned from British airports out of fears that more advanced U.S. aircraft will drive Imperial out of the transatlantic market.
		January 20 - A refuels an Imperial Airways Short Empire over Southampton Water
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1938_in_aviation (438 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Through Imperial -- Jun. 05, 1933
		Imperial Airways runs from London to Cape Town, and to Karachi on India's west coast.
		For years Imperial has tried to extend its line to Australia, but the Indian Government stood in the way.
		Imperial might fly across if it wished, as do French and Dutch airlines, but it might not do passenger business on Indian soil.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,745654,00.html (373 words)

	Articles - British Airways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In April 1988 British Airways effected the controversial takeover of Britain's second-force airline British Caledonian, and in 1992 absorbed Gatwick-based carrier Dan-Air.
		British Airways is pioneering the use of "flat beds" in the premium cabins on their long-haul routes and has the most flat beds of any airline on their aircraft.
		On 10 June 1990, British Airways Flight 5390, a BAC 1-11 flight between Birmingham and Malaga, suffered a windshield blowout.
	www.gaple.com /articles/British_Airways (3148 words)

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