{"id":314457,"date":"2025-11-24T01:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/airline\/meditations-on-a-coaster\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:07:14","slug":"meditations-on-a-coaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=314457","title":{"rendered":"MEDITATIONS ON A COASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>November 22, 2025<\/h4>\n<p>You\u2019re in a hotel room in London. There\u2019s a coaster on the desk in the design of a Union Jack (or half of one, at any rate).  <\/p>\n<p> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/askthepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Coaster-Union-Jack-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23122\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Very British, very typical. But you see something else. You cover part of the flag with your hand, revealing a different design. <\/p>\n<p>Then you cover it a slightly different way, revealing yet a third design. Like this\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/askthepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Coasters-Union-Jacks-Collage-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23123\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What you\u2019ve created are the 1970s-era logos of British European Airways (BEA) and British Airways. <\/p>\n<p>BEA was a mainstay U.K. carrier that flew throughout Europe. Its \u201cspeedjack\u201d logo was a segmented Union Jack. In 1974 BEA merged with B.O.A.C to form British Airways. The first tail livery worn by British Airways also was a segmented Union Jack, a version of which is still used today. They looked like this\u2026<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 20px auto 35px; text-align: center; clear: both;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/askthepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BEA-and-BA-Collage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23120\" \/> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The fact you noticed this with hardly a glance makes you both pleased and uneasy. <\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, you take pride in a level of knowledge that some might call encyclopedic. On the other hand, you suspect there are better things for your mind to concern itself with. Your talents of perception, you worry, are badly off-balance, hijacked by frivolous aviation esoterica. Take it easy, man. Sometimes a Union Jack is just a Union Jack.  <\/p>\n<p>So it goes when you\u2019re an air travel nerd. You can\u2019t help yourself. The world is always more interesting when something, anything, relates back to airlines or planes. 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