The Name's Different, But
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The Service Is The Same
You’ve know us as BOAC for a long time now, but we and our sister corporation British European Airways have been merged and now we are all one big British Airways. Though the name and the look of aeroplanes will be different, nothing else has changed. The service will always be the same as it has been in the past— immaculate.
On April 1, 1974, BOAC and BE A officially cease to exist and our new British Airways comes into being— incidentally 50 years to the day since our predecessor, the first British gov-
ernment owned airline, Imperial Air ways—was founded, And so soon, instead of seeing the familiar blue and white aeroplanes with the gold Speedbird, you will be seeing them in the new British Air ways colours—still a blue and white fuselage but with a red-tipped tail and a stylised symbol evolved from the union flag and the Speedbird.
Some VC 10s in the new colours have already been seen in the air ports of Melbourne, Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu and Los Angeles on our trans-Pacific route.
This is what the new symbol looks like.
The horizontal and diagonal bars are in red and the triangle is blue.