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Latest archived mark · 2018

Virgin Atlantic

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British Airways

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What we compare	Virgin Atlantic	British Airways
Country in archive	United Kingdom	United Kingdom
Founded	1984	March 31, 1974
Founder	Randolph Fields and Alan Hellary	British Airways Board
Headquarters	Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom	Harmondsworth, England, United Kingdom
Name origin	The 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 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	London Heathrow hub, Manchester hub, Boeing 787-9, Airbus A350-1000	Concorde, Boeing 747, Airbus A380
Earliest archived brand logo	1984	1974
Latest archived logo	2018	2008
Archived logo assets	5	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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