25 April 1935; 89 years ago (1935-04-25) (as Cambrian Air Services)
Ceased operations
1 April 1974; 50 years ago (1974-04-01) (merged with BOAC, BEA and Northeast Airlines to form British Airways)
Operating bases
Cardiff
Liverpool
Headquarters
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Cambrian Airways was an airline based in the United Kingdom which ran operations from Cardiff Airport and Liverpool John Lennon Airport between 1935 and 1974. It was incorporated into British Airways when BOAC, BEA, Cambrian and Northeast merged on 1 April 1974.
CambrianAirways was an airline based in the United Kingdom which ran operations from Cardiff Airport and Liverpool John Lennon Airport between 1935 and...
Airways, and two regional airlines, CambrianAirways and Northeast Airlines. On 31 March 1974, all four companies were merged to form British Airways...
British European Airways (BEA), formally British European Airways Corporation, was a British airline which existed from 1946 until 1974. BEA operated to...
On 20 July 1965 a Vickers Viscount of CambrianAirways crashed on approach to Liverpool International Airport, after a flight from Ronaldsway Airport,...
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...
Corporation (BOAC) and British European Airways (BEA), and including also two smaller regional airlines, CambrianAirways and Northeast Airlines. The merger...
Vickers Viscount G-AMOA of CambrianAirways was damaged beyond economic repair in a heavy landing. On 3 October 2010, a Thomson Airways Boeing 767 aircraft,...
standards after a hydraulic system failure. On 20 July 1965, G-AMOL of CambrianAirways crashed on approach to Speke Airport, killing both crew and two people...
Percival Proctor, and de Havilland Dove aircraft. CambrianAirways On the 24 May 1952, CambrianAirways began a twice daily scheduled service to Cardiff...
which Vickers was selected to develop in April 1945. British European Airways (BEA) was involved in the design and asked that the aircraft carry 32 passengers...
name to the Cambrian geological period), the newspaper Cambrian News, and the organisations CambrianAirways, Cambrian Railways, Cambrian Archaeological...
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allowed CambrianAirways to run the airport for them on a commercial basis. Renamed Swansea Airport, it was officially opened on 1 June 1957 with Cambrian Airways...
"Allied Airways". 15 June 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2019. "Allied British Airways". Airline History. Retrieved 1 August 2021. "Alpha One Airways". Retrieved...
to the airport terminal On 20 July 1965 Vickers Viscount G-AMOL of CambrianAirways crashed on approach from Isle of Man Airport, killing the two crew...
American Harvard aircraft. In the 1960s, Fairey became a pilot with CambrianAirways, flying Douglas DC-3, Vickers Viscount and BAC One-Eleven aeroplanes...
known as B.O.A.C.) and British European Airways (BEA) were combined, and the regional carriers CambrianAirways and Northeast Airlines were included. Born:...
Viscount Network. Geoff Blampied. Retrieved 31 October 2015. "BRITISH AIRWAYS DONATE G-AMOG TO THE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT". www.vickersviscount.net. Retrieved...
delivered to British European Airways in 1953. The last operator was CambrianAirways. She was retired in 1971 and placed on display at Liverpool Airport...
Skyways Coach-Air crashed on landing at Lympne Airport. 20 July – CambrianAirways Vickers Viscount G-AMOL crashed on approach to Speke Airport, Liverpool...
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an aircraft climbs to altitude. An example of this is the 2005 Helios Airways Flight 522 crash, in which the maintenance service left the pressurization...
airlines: CambrianAirways from 1935 to 1976, Airways International Cymru until the airline ceased operations in 1988, Inter European Airways until 1993...
1961, following proving flights four days earlier by Aer Lingus and CambrianAirways. Vincent Fanning was the first manager at the airport. In its first...
quickly to take over the abandoned scheduled routes. Former rival CambrianAirways assumed the Liverpool–Glasgow and Liverpool–Heathrow routes while BEA...