Airways chief collects knighthood
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Mr Keith Granville, deputy chairman of the British Airways Board and former chairman of BOAC, received a knighthood in the Queen’s birthday honours. Sir Keith has spent his entire career with BOAC and in January, 1971, was the first member of the air line to be appointed chairman.
He was appointed deputy chairman of the British Airways Board in September last year and is currently president of the International Air Transport As
sociation, having begun his career in aviation in 1929 as a ten shillings a week trainee with BOAC’s predecessor, Imperial Airways.
Sir Keith told Pacific Jet News: “I regard this knighthood as being very much for British Airways— BO AC and BEA—for the fine work our airlines have done,” adding with a chuckle: “There are eight children in my family and now my wife finds she is married to a Knight Bachelor!”