{"id":172079,"date":"2025-02-02T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/bea-route-network-1950-history\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T23:30:14","slug":"what-was-british-european-airways-route-network-like-in-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=172079","title":{"rendered":"What Was British European Airways&#8217; Route Network Like In 1950?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British European Airways (BEA) was an airline that existed between 1946 and 1974, when the airline merged with the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) to form the modern             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ba-icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>British Airways<\/a><\/span> that serves as the United Kingdom&#8217;s flag carrier today. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/cambrian-airways-northeast-airlines-british-airways-predecessors-history\/\" >While initially established as a BOAC subdivision on January 1st, 1946<\/a>, the carrier would be given complete autonomy as a crown corporation on August 1st, 1946. British European Airways served destinations across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, and also operated several domestic routes within the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BEA route network was more complex than you might expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,11524,13240,1608,12620],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-bea","category-commercial-aviation","category-european-aviaton","category-uk-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172080,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172079\/revisions\/172080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}