Four years later, British European Airways (BEA) took a 25% minority stake in Jersey Airlines and made it an "associate".

In 1960, Jersey Airlines ordered four state-of-the-art Handley Page Dart Herald 200 series turboprops.

The same year, Jersey Airlines became part of the British United Airways (BUA) group of companies.

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] During the summer of 1948, Welshman Maldwyn L. Thomas was working for a car rental company in St. Helier, Jersey, and arranged ad hoc charters for day trippers to be flown from London's Croydon Airport to Dinard in Brittany, France.

Due to the growing popularity of these trips, in November of that year, he decided to form a company to offer such charter flights on a regular basis.

[nb 2][3][5][7] By winter 1956, Jersey Airlines' scheduled route network included Croydon, Bournemouth, Exeter, Manchester, and Southampton in England, Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey from the Channel Islands,[nb 3] as well as Cherbourg, Dinard, Nantes, Saint-Brieuc and Paris Orly in France and Bilbao in Spain.

One of the airline's de Havilland Herons operated the first scheduled flight to arrive at the newly reconstructed airport.

Thomas, the airline's chairman and managing director, signed the contract later that year, the number of aircraft on firm order was increased to six series 200 Dart Heralds.

[5] The BUA group's takeover of Jersey Airlines in May 1962 followed BEA's disposal of its minority holding in its former regional "associate" on 31 March of that year.

[16] It also made BUA bigger than British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) in terms of scheduled passengers carried.