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The British Overseas Airways Corporation came into being in 1939 as the successor to the pre-war British Airways and the legendary Imperial Airways...

Scotland's airlines have always struggled to provide services to a relatively sparse population spread over a large area, and have had to supply li...

During the post-war years, Heathrow Airport became the country’s leading aviation hub. This book examines how this was achieved, from the airport’s...

For over seventy years the name Swissair stood for all things Swiss on the airways. The ‘flying arrow’ emblem of Switzerland’s national airline rep...

Today, Heathrow is a major transportation crossroads, with thousands of flights each year conveying millions of passengers to all parts of the glob...

In 1976 a Jersey-based air taxi operator purchased two elderly Dakota aircraft for cargo charters as Air Atlantique. Thus began the saga of an airl...

The end of the Second World War not only brought peace to a war-weary population but also delivered a plethora of surplus transport aircraft, crew ...

The Gatwick story really began when two young men purchased a plot of land near Gatwick Racecourse to develop as a flying field. From these humble ...

Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age sets out to do justice to a time of glamorous, unhurried air travel, unrecognisable to most of today’s a...