Quoting f4f3a (Reply 12): It's funny looking at the old photos of the airline northeast in the us and the northeast uk airline
They both had very similar livery yet I believe they were entirely separate. Perhaps the uk one was a bit of a copy as it |
The British airline named Northeast Airlines together with Cambrian Airways were subsidiaries of British Air Services. It in turn was owned, along with Channel Islands and Scottish Airways, by BEA.
As its name suggests Northeast Airlines operated domestic and European services from NE England, primarily from
NCL. Cambrian Airways operated out of
CWL. The geographic operations of Channel Islands and Scottish Airways are self explanatory.
Apart from the BEA subsidiaries detailed above and their Mainline domestic and European flights, BEA brought two other operations to the merger with BOAC . They were BEA Helicopters (based at
LGW) and BEA's Internal German Services.
At the time of the BEA / BOAC operational merger Northeast had a fleet of four
HS Trident 1Es and six Vickers Viscount 806s. All ten aircraft were absorbed into the new
BA. In the summer of 1973 these aircraft and many of those operated by other BEA subsidiaries were the first to be painted with the titles of the embryonic British Airways.