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Is British Airways owned by the government?

British Airways is the flag carrier of the United Kingdom. Despite that nationalistic sounding tag, British Airways is not a state-owned airline, although it once was. British Airways was privatised in the late 1980s and nowadays is wholly owned by IAG, an Anglo-Spanish airline consortium.



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Top British Airways Competitors (Updated in 2023)
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