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What we compareVirgin AtlanticBA CityFlyer
Country in archiveUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom
Founded19842007
FounderRandolph Fields and Alan Hellary—
HeadquartersCrawley, West Sussex, United KingdomDidsbury, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Name originThe airline was first planned as British Atlantic Airways and was renamed Virgin Atlantic Airways soon after, when Richard Branson's Virgin brand came on board. Wikipedia does not record why the founders chose the new name beyond that change, and the Virgin name itself belongs to Branson's wider group.The sources used for this short profile do not explain the origin of the BA CityFlyer name.
HighlightsLondon Heathrow hub, Manchester hub, Boeing 787-9, Airbus A350-1000London City Airport
Earliest archived brand logo19842007
Latest archived logo20182007
Archived logo assets51

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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