Category:British European Airways
British European Airways (BEA), formally British European Airways Corporation, was a British airline which existed from 1946 until 1974. BEA operated to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from airports around the United Kingdom. The airline was also the largest UK domestic operator, serving major British cities, including London, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast, as well as remote areas of the British Isles such as the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. From 1946 until 1974, BEA operated a network of internal German routes between West Berlin and West Germany as well.
Formed as the British European Airways division of British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) on 1 January 1946, BEA became a crown corporation in its own right on 1 August 1946. Operations commenced from Croydon and Northolt airports, with DH.89A Dragon Rapides and Douglas DC-3s. Having established its main operating base at Northolt, BEA operated its first service from Heathrow in April 1950; by late-1954, all Northolt operations had moved to Heathrow, which remained the airline's main operating base until the merger with BOAC in 1974. During 1952, BEA carried its one-millionth passenger, and by the early 1960s it had become the Western world's fifth-biggest passenger-carrying airline and the biggest outside the United States.
In 1950, BEA operated the world's first turbine-powered commercial air service with Vickers' Viscount 630 prototype, from London to Paris. The airline entered the jet age in 1960 with de Havilland's DH.106 Comet 4B. On 1 April 1964, it became the first to operate the DH.121 Trident; on 10 June 1965, a BEA Trident 1C performed the world's first automatic landing during a scheduled commercial air service. For most of its existence, BEA was headquartered at BEAline House in Ruislip, London Borough of Hillingdon. BEA ceased to exist as a legal entity on 1 April 1974 when the merger with BOAC to form British Airways (BA) took effect.
This page contains all films, TV series, and video games that feature aircraft of British European Airways.
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This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pages in category "British European Airways"
The following 179 pages are in this category, out of 179 total.
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- L'aveu
- La Belgique dans le ciel
- La decima vittima
- La mala ordina
- La muerte llama a las 10
- La proie pour l'ombre
- La société du spectacle
- Lange Beine - lange Finger
- Le silencieux
- Le voyage à Biarritz
- Les ailes de France: La Caravelle
- Letiště nepřijímá
- Letter to Brezhnev
- Life in the Orkneys
- London Airport - Heathrow 1940s to 1970s
- London Airport - Heathrow in the 1950s & 60s
- London Airport - Heathrow in the 1960s & 70s
- Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
- Look at Life: City of the Air
- Look at Life: Controlled Landing
- Look at Life: Flying to Work
- Look at Life: New Roads for Old
- Los ángeles del volante
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- Man in a Suitcase
- Man of the Moment (1955)
- Mayday - Season Thirteen
- Mazel Tov ou le mariage
- Meine Schwiegersöhne und ich
- Mister Dynamit - Morgen küßt euch der Tod
- Mister Jerico
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Motion History: Project Utopia - British Airways' £60m Mistake
- Muchachas en vacaciones
- Murderer's Row
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- Tatort
- The Adventurer
- The Angel
- The Baron (TV Series)
- The Beatles Anthology
- The Big Freeze of 1963 Remembered
- The Champions
- The Clue of the Missing Ape
- The Courier (2020)
- The Crown
- The Damned (1963)
- The Embezzler
- The Executioner
- The High Bright Sun
- The Lavender Hill Mob
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
- The Looking Glass War
- The Man Between
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- The Man Without a Body
- The Motorway File
- The Naked Edge
- The Persuaders!
- The Protectors
- The Sandbaggers
- The Secret Partner
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- The Spy with a Cold Nose
- The Statue
- The Story of Aviation
- The Tamarind Seed
- The Wrong Arm of the Law
- Thirty Million Letters
- Tim Frazer
- Time Without Pity
- Today in Britain
- Tweenies