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Air Canada is the flag carrier and largest airline of Canada. It was founded in 1937. It provides scheduled and charter air transport for passengers and cargo to 182 destinations globally. Air Canada is based in Montreal, Quebec but its largest hub is located at Toronto Pearson International Airport. The predecessor of Air Canada is Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) and it inaugurated its first flight on September 1, 1937. In 1964, TCA had grown to become Canada's national airline and changed its name to Air Canada. Well, it was then privatized in 1989.

British Airways is the flag carrier and largest airline in the United Kingdom-headquartered in Waterside, Harmondsworth, England. It is the second-largest in the United Kingdom when measured by passengers carried. Actually, a British Airways Board was established by the UK government in 1972. They established it to manage the two nationalized airline corporations which are British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways. On March 1974, all those companies including two smaller, regional airlines Cambrian Airways and Northeast Airlines were merged to form British Airways. After 13 years as a state company, British Airways was privatized in February 1987. It was part of a wider privatization plan by the Conservative Government.