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The airline also launched its future-facing programme, BA 2119, which has been leading the debate on the future of flying, exploring the future of sustainable aviation fuels and the customer experience of the future.

1919 AVIATION HALF WING PIN TV

Contemporary artist Grayson Perry, anthropologist Jane Goodall, chef and TV presenter Matilda Ramsay and Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space also all featured and were brought together as leaders in their respective fields. The campaign has continued throughout the year with more faces joining the BA100 who represent the best of business, environment, fashion, film and entertainment, food and drink, music, art and design, philanthropy, science and technology, and sport. In February, the airline launched its heart-warming centenary advertising campaign featuring a love letter to Britain brought to life by some of Britain’s biggest names, including Gary Oldman, Olivia Colman and Riz Ahmed, sporting stars Anthony Joshua, Ellie Simmonds, Nicola Adams, Chris Robshaw, Harriet Millar-Mills and Anthony Watson, musical icons Paloma Faith and The Kingdom Choir (with a cameo from David Bowie). Younger flyers travelling through Heathrow Terminal 5 and Gatwick on selected dates this summer can pick up a limited-edition backpack by personalised children’s gift brand, My 1st Years, and will be given a special branded luggage tag and a pin badge in their Skyflyers Packs.Īnd these are just the latest activities that have been taking place throughout 2019 to mark the centenary. Those in First and Club World can also collect and enjoy special edition centenary amenity kits. Those on short-haul services will be treated to Hotel Chocolat giveaways, while on long-haul flights customers will be served menus from Michelin-starred British chef, Tom Kerridge, featuring great British flavours that work at altitude. Special centenary edition drinks including Speedbird 100, a Brewdog IPA, and Hattingley Valley English sparkling wine, will be served at selected venues around the stadium, and fans will be in with a chance at half-time to win one million Avios, enough to reach Sydney twice in the airline’s First cabin.Ĭustomers flying with British Airways from around the world this weekend will be greeted with bunting and decorations. To commemorate that first service the aircraft that was painted in the original British European Airways’ (BEA) livery earlier this year will operate the BA314 service to Paris Charles de Gaulle on Sunday, before flying around the airline’s UK network throughout the rest of the bank holiday weekend.Īs the Principal Partner to Twickenham Stadium and the Official Airline Partner to England Rugby, the airline is going all-out for the England vs Ireland match on August 24, kicking off with the airline’s choir performing the national anthems on the pitch. Our customers truly enable us to bring Britain to the world and the world to Britain and we look forward to serving them for the next 100 years.”īack on that day in 1919, the very first international flight by the airline’s predecessor, Air Transport & Travel (AT&T) operated from Hounslow Heath, very near to what we now know as London Heathrow, to Paris. “From that first customer who flew from Hounslow Heath to Paris on 25 August 1919 in a single-engine De Havilland DH4A to the millions who choose to fly with us every year on more than 800 flights a day to 200 destinations around the globe – we thank them all.

This Sunday, 25 August 2019, marks British Airways’ 100th birthday and the airline is marking its centenary by celebrating with customers.Īlex Cruz, British Airways’ Chairman and CEO, said: “We have had a fabulous year so far marking our centenary and thanking our customers for making us the airline we are today – we wouldn’t be here without their pioneering spirits and sense of adventure.

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