British car and passenger ferry airline from 1963 to 2001
British United Air Ferries
IATA
ICAO
Callsign
VF
BAF
Air Ferry
Founded
1963
Ceased operations
2001
Hubs
Southend Lydd Ferryfield Hurn Southampton Stansted Aberdeen Sumburgh
London Gatwick
Fleet size
23 piston airliners (9 Aviation Traders Carvair, 14 Bristol Superfreighter (as of September 1967))
Destinations
Channel Islands, Continental Europe
Parent company
Air Holdings (1967–1971) T.D. Keegan (1971–1972) Transmeridian Air Cargo (1972–1977) T.D. Keegan (1977–1983) Jadepoint (1983–1988) Mostjet (1989–1993) [British] World Aviation Group (1994–2001)
Headquarters
Central London (1963–1967) London Southend Airport (1967–2001)
Key people
Sir Miles Wyatt, F. A. Laker, Max Stuart-Shaw, Graham Kentsley, R.L. Cumming, A.F. Nickalls, D.J. Platt, T.D. Keegan, A.L. MacLeod, D. Willis, R. Pesskin, N. Skinner, A. Weiner, I.M. Herman, R. Pinnington, R. Sturman, N. Hansford, M.J. Sessions
Website
british-world.co.uk
British United Air Ferries (BUAF) was a wholly private, British independent[nb 1] car and passenger ferry airline based in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. It specialised in cross-Channel ferry flights carrying cars and their owners between its numerous bases in Southern England, the Channel Islands and Continental Europe. All-passenger and all-cargo flights were operated as well. Following several identity and ownership changes, it went out of business in 2001.
In its final years, as British World Airlines, its head office was at Viscount House, London Southend Airport.[1]
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