Fly BOACOriginal vintage travel advertising poster: Take time off travel, fly BOAC, in association with QEA (Qantas Empire Airways), SAA (South African Airways) and TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways Limited, later Air New Zealand). The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state airline created in 1940 1946 as the result of a merger, introducing the world's first passenger jets to its service in 1952 and merging again in 1971 1974 to create