65438-0949, Aviation School Co., Ltd. reorganized Derby Airlines, started passenger and cargo charter flights, as well as maintenance and aircraft agency services.
1953, retired from RAF training; Three years later, I started my first international flight to Ostend, Belgium.
1959 changed its name to "Derby Airlines".
1964, Derby Airlines acquired Mercury Airlines, an airline headquartered in Manchester, and changed its name to British Midland Airlines (BMA), and moved its business to the newly completed East Midland Airport the following year.
1968 Munster Assets acquired British Airways. In the following year, Michael Bishop was transferred from Mercury ground operations manager to general manager, and later served as managing director at 1972.
1978, Munster Assets Company wanted to sell British Airways, and Michael raised 2.5 million pounds for a management buyout and became the chairman of the board of directors. In the same year, British Airways reached a route swap agreement with British Airways, which changed Birmingham to Brussels and Frankfurt to British Airways from Liverpool to London Heathrow, Belfast, Dublin, Jersey, Isle of Man and Glasgow.
1979, after the route exchange, British Airways transported more than 1 10,000 passengers for the first time in one year, and more than10.8 million passengers every year in the following years.
198 1 year, British Airways applied to the British Civil Aviation Authority to open a route between Heathrow, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and entered a direct competitive relationship with British Airways.
1982, the company moved its headquarters to donington Castle near East Midlands Airport, and started the second expansion business. British Airways and AirUK (now KLM UK) jointly established Manx Airlines with Manx Airport as the hub, and later acquired 75% equity of Scottish Loganair Company.
1986, British Airways changed its name from "British Midland Airlines" to "British Midland Airlines".
1989, Scandinavian Aviation Systems (SAS) acquired 24.9% of British Airways for 25 million pounds, and increased its shareholding ratio to 40% in 1992.
From 65438 to 0999, Nordic Airlines transferred 20% of its shares to Lufthansa on the condition that British Airways joined the Star Alliance, and British Airways joined the Star Alliance the following year.
In 2002, British Airways launched a new business name "bmi British Midland", which was abbreviated as "bmi" in 2003.
In February, 2007, British Airways acquired British Mediterranean Airlines (BMED), thus gaining routes to Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and other regions, while BMED's apron was transferred to its original partner British Airways for 30 million pounds.
In 2008, Bishop agreed to transfer 50% of its shares to Lufthansa, although the two parties did not publicly set a price, and the company's annual report quoted 3,654,388+0.8 million pounds. Lufthansa completed its share acquisition on July 1 2009, and British Airways has since become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lufthansa.
In 20 10, British Airways announced that the company name was changed from the abbreviation "bmi" to the full name "Midland International", but it continued to use the "bmi trademark" used in Britain since 2000.
20 12 on April 20th, International Airlines Group bought British Airways from Lufthansa for1250,500, and British Airways withdrew from Star Alliance on the same day. Although British Airways was acquired by the international aviation group, it did not join the whole world.
2012101On October 28th, BA was formally merged into BA.