BIA and Air Anglia
Both these airlines at one time had common ownership, i.e. the British and Commonwealth Shipping Group. Would I be right in thinking the two airlines split the UK down the middle as far as operations were concerned and was this a deliberate act of their owners ? To illustrate, LBA was an Air Anglia base and operated flights to Norwich and Edinburgh. BIA, however was a common sight 'out west', for example at Glasgow, Exeter, Manchester and the Isle of Man. BIA used to link LBA with IOM during the mid-seventies but that was all, apart from the odd training visit during early 1979.