BMA

On October 1, 1964 the company change its name to British Midland Airways fund management (BMA) and moved to the then newly opened Burnaston Airport East Midlands. The first of the turboprop plane company, which was filed with the corporate colors blue and white was a Handley Page Dart Herald. The investment bank Minster Assets bought the airline in 1968. Yet the process of European expansion, both investment portfolio locally and maintained a fast pace and BMA in 1970 entered into the era of jet aviation with the incorporation of the BAC 1-11 hedge funds and Boeing 707 in 1971. The airline decided to concentrate on the turbo as the Vickers Viscount, so that the investment BAC 1-11 in 1972 were withdrawn from service and 707 were leased to other airlines. Despite this change in direction, the fleet of 707 continued to increase, although none of these devices perform any service or regular or charter, until his return in 1981. With the advent in 1976 of the Douglas DC-9, most of the Ribostky domestic and European The N.I.R. Group airline to be passed by jet.
In 1978, the directors of the company to repurchase the company Minster Assets. Chief investment manager at the , Among those to perform the operation was the current chairman Sir Michael Bishop. That year, British Midland and British Airways agreed to family of funds undertake a second exchange of routes on which British Midland Airways waives its continental flights from Birmingham to Brussels and Frankfurt while to deliver the BA routes from Heathrow to Liverpool, Belfast, Dublin, Jersey The Isle of Man and Glasgow. Result of this operation was a record 1 funds million passengers that the airline reached in 1979.
In 1981 the BMA UKCAA denied a request stocks to establish a route between Heathrow, NYSE Glasgow investors and Edinburgh. However, the opinion was revoked following submit an appeal to Minister of Industry and Commerce (officially, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry). With the opening of these services, investment management BMA and BA became direct competitors.
BMA Manx Airlines founded in 1982 along with British and Commonwealth Shipping, and the following year was made with 75 of the Scottish airline Loganair. In March 1987, the company decided to create Airlines of Britain Holdings (ABH) to bring together British Midland and British Midland Aviation Services. from the 10 years later ABH became British Midland to be separated as part of a major restructuring process.