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 British Mediterranean Airways was formed in 1994, under the chairmanship of Lord Alexander Hesketh. Operations began in October of that year, with five non-sop flights a week to Beirut, the capital of Lebanon from London Heathrow.

 In April 1995, Des Hetherington was appointed the Chief Executive of the airline; he was the former commercial director at Kenya Airways.

 On March 30th 1997, British Mediterranean Airways became another franchise partner of British Airways. British Airways withdrew its services to Beirut, Damascus and Amman, leaving British Mediterranean Airways to be the sole British carrier serving these routes.

The benefits to British Mediterranean of this franchise were that British Airways becomes worldwide reservation agent for British Mediterranean Airways along with British Mediterranean Airways passengers able to join British Airways Executive Club.
Another benefit was that it allowed the airlines passengers access to UK regional traffic fed into London Heathrow.

British Mediterranean Airways serves the following destinations:

Addis Ababa, Almaty, Amman, Aleppo, Alexandria, Baku, Beirut, Bishkek, Damascus, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tehran, Yerevan.

 


 


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