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Latest archived mark · 2010

British Midland International

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Latest archived mark · 2008

British Airways

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What we compare	British Midland International	British Airways
Country in archive	United Kingdom	United Kingdom
Founded	1938	March 31, 1974
Founder	Roy Harben	British Airways Board
Headquarters	Castle Donington, England, United Kingdom	Harmondsworth, England, United Kingdom
Name origin	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.	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 Airport, Manchester Airport	Concorde, Boeing 747, Airbus A380
Earliest archived brand logo	1956	1974
Latest archived logo	2010	2008
Archived logo assets	7	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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