British Airways Group
1974 Formation of British Airways Group incorporating BOAC and BEA which were then dissolved.
1976 The world’s first passenger supersonic services were inaugurated simultaneously by British Airways to Bahrain and Air France to Rio de Janeiro via Dakar. Concorde flights to Washington Dulles started later that year, but problems with noise levels delayed operations to New York.
2011 British Airways and Iberia merged, creating the International Airlines Group.