The logo, but not the callsign, was retired in 1984, but made a return as part of the retro BOAC livery on a BA Boeing 747. As I write, it has just landed at Heathrow from Miami as Speedbird 208 ...

LONDON -- British Airways began lining the fuel tanks of its Concorde jets with the same type of rubber used in bulletproof vests on Tuesday, in a move aimed at making the plane safe to resume ...

BOAC was, itself, formed in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways. So, while BA in its current form dates from 1974, the airline claims to have a history stretching back to ...

Concorde was grounded after an Air France Concorde crashed in Paris last July killing more than 100 people. BA, which, with Air France operates the world's fleet of Concordes, ...

British Airways plans to resume Concorde passenger flights in September, it was revealed today. Air France intends to follow suit a month later, an Anglo-French Concorde working group said after ...

Estimates are that BA receives between £150m and £200m from Concorde flights, less than 2% of the £8.9bn in turnover it has each year. But even if BA can withstand the blow dealt by the loss of its ...

British Airways has been flooded with inquiries from enthusiasts who want to buy bits of Concorde when the supersonic plane is withdrawn from service this autumn, it has announced. The airline ...

Sir Richard Branson is to ask the Government to investigate the circumstances in which British Airways took control of Concorde in the early 1980s, amid suspicion it gave false information to ...

British Airways has insisted two earlier Concorde incidents reported on by accident investigators had no bearing on July's crash of the supersonic plane in which 113 people died ...

BA has been talking with Air France, Concorde manufacturers, crash investigators and government officials from Britain and France to review a series of safety modifications.

Lady Thatcher famously draped a handkerchief over a model plane with the world colours logo, declaring it "awful". The union colours were retained on BA's flagship, Concorde, and it was later ...