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British Airways celebrates its centenary in 2019. The airline itself will no doubt be planning a lot of events to mark the occasion.
The official date of BA’s 100th anniversary is not until 25 August 2019. However, Channel 5 is well ahead of the game as it will take a look at the history of BA in a two part series “British Airways: 100 Years in the Sky”.
The first episode airs at 21:00 on Tuesday 1 May 2018 and will be available to watch on demand at My5 after broadcast.
The programme is produced by Title Role Productions whose related credits include World’s Wildest Flights.
There’s actually not much that has been released in terms of pre-broadcast publicity, beyond “The first passengers sat in wicker chairs with no toilets.” Also, it is not known whether BA has co-operated with the production, which would influence how much archive material has been available. Researchers were looking for contributors online earlier this year, which suggests the production turnaround is quite quick.
Postscript
Having just watched the first episode, Title Role has done a very creditable job at covering a very broad subject. There’s a lot of high quality archive footage and a good range of informed contributors including journalists, social and cultural historians and former staff of BA and its predecessor airlines.
I used to fly from LHR to CCU in the early 1980’s on your Tristar aircraft (BA144/145) .In addition to the excellent hospitality we received as kids flying out to see our parents I was impressed with the internal livery which depicted the history of flight. I have always regretted not taking a photo of this. Would it be possible to send me an image of this as it would mean so much to me. Many thanks for your help.