One photograph claimed to show the interior of a 1936 commercial airplane complete with wicker chairs as passenger seats, under the British empire-era company Imperial Airways, which operated from ...

A photograph from another angle shows a 1924 Imperial Airways airplane using wicker chairs, as seen below. According to Getty Images: "Completed in 1924 as a reconnaissance flying boat, ...

Imperial Airways was a long-range airline that operated from 1924 to 1939 and mostly served British Empire routes to South Africa, India, Australia, and the Far East.

As airlines developed, some chose to pull from the "railway" terminology, and called themselves Western Canadian Airways (formed 1926) and Imperial Airways (formed 1924).

British Airways used to be known as 'the world's favourite airline', but now the slogan on its coat of arms will read 'To fly. To serve' and a TV advert will look at the airline's glorious past.

This week Imperial Airways Ltd. announced that it would reduce the time of the London-India run from four days to two-and-one-half days, the London-Australia from eleven days to nine. This means ...

Soaring through the clouds in 1925, passengers on an Imperial Airways flight traveling over Germany were treated to a brand new novelty—one of the first in-flight movies.

Imperial Airways eventually became part of what is now British Airways, and was the origin of British Airways' famous "Speedbird" logo. There are no surviving examples of the plane.

If the map is what is claims to be, that means Beck came up with the Imperial Airways design before 1935 — rather than after it — indeed in the same year he crafted his iconic version of the ...

From the military style of Imperial Airways to the 'modern jumpsuits' unveiled for 2023 (and the swinging sixties in between): How BA's uniform has evolved over more than a century of aviation history ...