British United Air Ferries
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| Founded | 1963 | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | 2001 | ||||||
| Hubs |
Southend Lydd Ferryfield Hurn Southampton Stansted Aberdeen Sumburgh |
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| Fleet size | 23 piston airliners (9 Aviation Traders Carvair, 14 Bristol Superfreighter (as of September 1967)) |
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| Destinations |
Channel Islands, Continental Europe |
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| Parent company | Air Holdings (1967—1971) T.D. Keegan (1971—1972) Transmeridian Air Cargo (1972—1977) T.D. Keegan (1977—1983) Jadepoint (1983—1988) Mostjet (1989—1993) [British] World Aviation Group (1994—2001) |
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| Headquarters |
Central London (1963—1967) London Southend Airport (1967—2001) |
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| Key people | Sir Miles Wyatt, F. A. Laker, Max Stuart-Shaw, Graham Kentsley, R.L. Cumming, A.F. Nickalls, D.J. Platt, T.D. Keegan, A.L. MacLeod, D. Willis, R. Pesskin, N. Skinner, A. Weiner, I.M. Herman, R. Pinnington, R. Sturman, N. Hansford, M.J. Sessions |
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British United Air Ferries (BUAF) was a wholly private, British independentcar and passenger ferry airline based in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. It specialised in cross-Channel ferry flights carrying cars and their owners between its numerous bases in Southern England, the Channel Islands and Continental Europe. All-passenger and all-cargo flights were operated as well. Following several identity and ownership changes, it went out of business in 2001.
BUAF came into being on 1 January 1963 as a result of the merger of Channel Air Bridge and Silver City Airways. The newly formed airline was a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Holdings, which in turn was a subsidiary of British & Commonwealth (B&C). This ownership structure made BUAF a sister airline of British United Airways (BUA), at the time Britain's biggest independent airline and the country's leading independent scheduled operator.
BUAF operated scheduled and non-scheduled vehicle ferry, passenger and freight services. This included scheduled routes from Southend, Lydd Ferryfield and Hurn to ten points in the Channel Islands and Continental Europe. Aviation Traders Carvairs operated what the airline called "deeper penetration" routes to Basle, Geneva and Strasbourg.
Bristol Superfreighters plied the routes to Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, Le Touquet, Calais, Ostend and Rotterdam.
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