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![[Cunard Eagle Airways flag]](../images/g/gb$cea.gif)
image by Randy Young, 24 January 2016See also:
Thanks Miles Li for mentioning this video (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jf1MzMcDTo) as a source for old Airline
companies' flags. The video shows the flag (at 0:26) of Cunard Eagle Airways. In
March 1960, the Cunard Steamship Company,
official website: http://www.cunard.com/)
bought a 60% shareholding for £30 million of British Eagle Airways, resulting in
a change of name to Cunard Eagle Airways. In the wake of several government
anti-monopoly practices during the early 1960s, Eagle saw its opportunity to run
from an international scheduled passenger and freight carrier to transAtlantic
operations expansion.
British Eagle Airways (also British International
Airlines) was a major British independent airline that operated from 1948 until
it went into liquidation in 1968. It operated scheduled and charter services on
a domestic, international and transatlantic basis over the years.
The
parent companies of British Eagle Airways and Cunard Eagle Airways were: Eagle
Aviation Ltd (1948-1963), British Eagle International Airlines Ltd (1963-1966)
and Eagle International Airlines Ltd (1966-1968)."
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Eagle
The flag of Cunard Eagle
Airways was a crimson red horizontal flag with the "E" logo in the middle in
white, and below the name of the company in white capital letters.
Esteban Rivera, 24 January 2016