14 Facts About Air UK

The following year, Air UK shifted its headquarters to London Stansted Airport.

Air UK was a full member of the International Air Transport Association for most of its existence.

Air UK operated the following aircraft types at one point or another during its 19-year existence:.

Air UK was the name of the new airline resulting from the merger of BIA and Air Anglia.

At the time of its inception, Air UK was the largest regional airline in the UK and the country's third-largest scheduled carrier.

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At the time of its creation, Air UK was sometimes referred to as the unofficial "Third Force" among the main contemporary scheduled airlines in the UK.

Air UK was the first and, at the time, only scheduled airline in the UK to fly from all three main London airports.

Management hoped that these business realignments – including cutting the company's workforce in half over a two-year period — would reverse heavy losses Air UK had incurred during its first two years of operation, thereby stabilising the company and positioning it for future growth.

That year saw Air UK joining forces with British Midland to form Manx Airlines, a new, jointly owned regional subsidiary based on the Isle of Man.

In 1987, Air UK placed its first order for BAe's new 146 regional jetliner.

In 1987, Air UK established Air UK Leisure as its new charter subsidiary in association with charter brokerage firm Viking International.

In 1993, Air UK Leisure entered the long-haul leisure market through the acquisition of a pair of Boeing 767 300 ER series widebodied aircraft.

Air UK Leisure was sold to Unijet, which in turn became part of the First Choice group.

Air UK's move to the new Norman Foster-designed terminal in early 1991 provided the impetus for the launch of several new, year-round scheduled routes linking Stansted with important business destinations including Belfast, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Inverness, Madrid, Milan Linate, Munich and Zurich.