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Latest archived mark · 2006

BA Connect

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Latest archived mark · 2008

British Airways

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What we compare	BA Connect	British Airways
Country in archive	United Kingdom	United Kingdom
Founded	2006	March 31, 1974
Founder	—	British Airways Board
Headquarters	Manchester Airport, United Kingdom, United Kingdom	Harmondsworth, England, United Kingdom
Name origin	The sources used for this short profile do not explain the origin of the BA Connect name.	The name is descriptive. In 1972 the British Airways Board was created to manage the state-owned BOAC and BEA and two regional carriers, and in 1974 the four were merged under the single name British Airways.
Highlights	—	Concorde, Boeing 747, Airbus A380
Earliest archived brand logo	2006	1974
Latest archived logo	2006	2008
Archived logo assets	2	4

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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