British Airways | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/10/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways


00:02:29 1 History
00:14:34 2 Corporate affairs
00:14:44 2.1 Operations
00:17:50 2.2 Subsidiaries and shareholdings
00:22:02 2.3 Business trends
00:22:38 2.4 Industrial relations
00:27:22 2.5 Alliance
00:27:38 3 Destinations
00:27:57 3.1 Codeshare agreements
00:28:10 4 Fleet
00:32:22 4.1 Current fleet
00:32:38 4.2 Cargo fleet
00:34:07 4.3 Former fleet
00:34:16 4.4 British Airways Engineering
00:34:46 5 Marketing
00:34:55 5.1 Branding
00:37:04 5.2 Liveries, logos, and tail fins
00:39:09 5.3 Loyalty programmes
00:40:36 5.4 Inflight magazines
00:41:42 6 Cabins and services
00:41:52 6.1 Short haul
00:42:00 6.1.1 Economy class
00:43:12 6.1.2 Business class
00:44:04 6.2 Mid-haul and long haul
00:44:14 6.2.1 First class
00:45:29 6.2.2 Club World
00:46:43 6.2.3 World Traveller Plus
00:47:23 6.2.4 World Traveller
00:48:17 7 Incidents and accidents
00:56:30 8 See also



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British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom, headquartered at Waterside, Harmondsworth, near its main hub at London Heathrow Airport. It is the second largest airline in the United Kingdom, based on fleet size and passengers carried, behind easyJet. In January 2011 BA merged with Iberia, creating the International Airlines Group (IAG), a holding company registered in Madrid, Spain. IAG is the world's third-largest airline group in terms of annual revenue and the second-largest in Europe. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and in the FTSE 100 Index. British Airways is the first passenger airline to have generated more than $1 billion on a single air route in a year (from 1 April 2017, to 31 March 2018, on the New York JFK - London Heathrow route).BA was created in 1974 after a British Airways Board was established by the British government to manage the two nationalised airline corporations, British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways, and two regional airlines, Cambrian Airways from Cardiff, and Northeast Airlines from Newcastle upon Tyne. On 31 March 1974, all four companies were merged to form British Airways. However, it is marking 2019 as its centenary based on predecessor companies. After almost 13 years as a state company, BA was privatised in February 1987 as part of a wider privatisation plan by the Conservative government. The carrier expanded with the acquisition of British Caledonian in 1987, Dan-Air in 1992, and British Midland International in 2012. Its preeminence highlights the reach of the country's influence as many of its destinations in several regions were historically part of the British Empire.
It is a founding member of the Oneworld airline alliance, along with American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qantas, and the now-defunct Canadian Airlines. The alliance has since grown to become the third-largest, after SkyTeam and Star Alliance.