British Airways France

Contents 1. Activities * History * Information * Organization * Flights between France and England

2. Finance * SWOT analysis * Financial analysis * Merger and Joint-venture * World crisis and reactions * The fight against low cost airlines in France * Invests * Marketing

3. Ethics * Disability assistance and firing * Tackling climate change impacts

History
Before 1974, there were two companies in UK: the British Overseas Airways Corporation and the British European Airways Corporation which shared the civil aviation market. In 1974, the government formed the British airways to control the activities of the two companies.
In 1976, with Air France, British Airways inaugurates the first supersonic trip with the Concorde on a London-Bahrain trip. The first trip to USA has gone to Washington in 1977. The last route was done in 2003 because of a crash in Paris in 2000.
In 1981, the company was privatized and floated in 1987 on the London Stock Exchange.
Since 1984, an intense fight between BA and Virgin Atlantic Airways concluded on a £610,000 penalty for BA due to a dirty campaign against Virgin Atlantic.
In September 1998, with American Airlines, Cathay Pacific Airways and Qantas, British Airways created OneWorld, an alliance between those airlines.
In January 2008, BA open a new subsidiary, OpenSkies, a 100% business class airline between London or Paris and New York or Washington.
In 2010, BA concluded its merger with Iberia.

Information
British Airways use to only have Boeing planes but now the airline decided to have the same part of Airbus and Boeing planes. The company has about 250 planes.
British Airways transport about 33 million passengers on 155 destinations. In France, British Airways transport 1 million passengers.
In France British Airways represent 3% of the aerial traffic and 50% of the Paris-London Trip.
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