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Latest archived mark · 2008

British Airways

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Latest archived mark · 2010

British Midland International

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What we compare	British Airways	British Midland International
Country in archive	United Kingdom	United Kingdom
Founded	March 31, 1974	1938
Founder	British Airways Board	Roy Harben
Headquarters	Harmondsworth, England, United Kingdom	Castle Donington, England, United Kingdom
Name origin	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.	The airline took the name British Midland Airways on 1 October 1964, when it moved from Burnaston to East Midlands Airport. The name points to its English Midlands base. It was shortened to BMI after the 2001 rebrand.
Highlights	Concorde, Boeing 747, Airbus A380	London Heathrow Airport, Manchester Airport
Earliest archived brand logo	1974	1956
Latest archived logo	2008	2010
Archived logo assets	4	7

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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