For the present-day successor airline, see British Airways.
British Overseas Airways Corporation
IATA
ICAO
Callsign
BA
BOA
SPEEDBIRD
Founded
24 November 1939 (1939-11-24) (amalgamation of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd)
Commenced operations
1 April 1940 (1940-04-01)
Ceased operations
31 March 1974 (1974-03-31) (merged with BEA, Cambrian Airways and Northeast Airlines to form British Airways)
Hubs
Heathrow Airport
Fleet size
≈ 200 (at its peak)
Destinations
200
Parent company
Government of the United Kingdom
Headquarters
Speedbird House, Heathrow Airport, Hillingdon, England
Key people
Whitney Straight
Matthew Slattery
Basil Smallpeice
Giles Guthrie
BOAC coat of arms
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. It continued operating overseas services throughout World War II. After the passing of the Civil Aviation Act 1946, European and South American services passed to two further state-owned airlines, British European Airways (BEA) and British South American Airways (BSAA). BOAC absorbed BSAA in 1949, but BEA continued to operate British domestic and European routes for the next quarter century. The Civil Aviation Act 1971 merged BOAC and BEA, effective 31 March 1974, forming today's British Airways.[1]
^"World Airline Directory", Flight International, p. 530, 28 September 1967, archived from the original on 11 March 2012, retrieved 14 December 2009
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