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2004 In Aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 2004: Events January * 2 January – Several British Airways flights from London Heathrow Airport to Washington D.C. and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are cancelled due to security fears. * 3 January – Flash Airlines Flight 604, a chartered Boeing 737-3Q8, crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard. * 13 January – An Uzbekistan Airways plane crashes in Uzbekistan's capital of Tashkent, killing all 37 aboard. February * Thai AirAsia begins flight operations, offering domestic airline service in Thailand. * The Spanish airline Vueling is founded. It will begin flight operations in July. * The Belgium-based airline BelgiumExel is founded and begins flight operations. * 10 February – Kish Air Flight 7170, the Fokker 50 ''EP-LCA'', crashes into the Persian Gulf while on final approach to a landing at Sharjah International Airport in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, killing 43 of the 46 people on board and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Airways
British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in London, England, near its main hub at Heathrow Airport. The airline is the second largest UK-based carrier, based on fleet size and passengers carried, behind easyJet. In January 2011 BA merged with Iberia, creating the International Airlines Group (IAG), a holding company registered in Madrid, Spain. IAG is the world's third-largest airline group in terms of annual revenue and the second-largest in Europe. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and in the FTSE 100 Index. British Airways is the first passenger airline to have generated more than US$1 billion on a single air route in a year (from 1 April 2017, to 31 March 2018, on the New York-JFK - London-Heathrow route). BA was created in 1974 after a British Airways Board was established by the British government to manage the two nationalised airline corporations, British Overseas Airways Corporation and British Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
