Difference between revisions of "Category:British United Air Ferries"

'''British United Air Ferries (BUAF)''' was a wholly private, British independent car and passenger ferry airline based in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. It specialised in cross-Channel ferry flights carrying cars and their owners between its numerous bases in Southern England, the Channel Islands and Continental Europe. All-passenger and all-cargo flights were operated as well. Following several identity and ownership changes, it went out of business in 2001. '''BUAF''' was created in 1963 as a result of the merger of Channel Air Bridge and [[ :Category: Silver City Airways| Silver City Airways]]. The newly formed airline was a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Holdings, which in turn was a subsidiary of British & Commonwealth (B&C). This ownership structure made '''BUAF''' a sister airline of British United Airways (BUA), at the time Britain's biggest independent airline and the country's leading independent scheduled operator. As a consequence of B&C's reorganisation of the BUA group of companies during 1967-68, '''BUAF''' changed its name to [[:Category: British Air Ferries|-BAF-British Air Ferries]] in September 1967.