Originally Posted by Bergerie1
It became a subsidiary of British Airways, having originally been owned by BOAC to provide ground services at various staging posts across the world and, in turn, Aerad was part of IAL. Prior to that time, IAL provided. or had provided, ATS at many locations world-wide - the West Indies, Libya, West Africa, East Africa, the Far East and notably the Middle East (Bahrein, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah etc) - and also at a number of small units in the UK, then just around that time (70s and 80s) adding contracts at Liverpool, Bournemouth and Southend Airports and the Brent Field HFIS in the North Sea.
Off at a slight tangent, those were interesting and fun days, I think. A couple of names spring to mind - Graeme A and Tony J, particularly - and a plonker in HR whose name escapes me, but for whom I would have joined in the fun in the sand.