Wednesday 11 November 2015

British Airways Observes Armistice Day With A 2 Minutes Silence!

British Airways joins the rest of the world to mark the Armistice Day with a 2 minutes silence at 11 am, a period during which all planes on the ground silenced their engines and all airport staff paused in their work. 

The Armistic Day which coincides with Veterans Day and Remembrance Day, is observed every year on 11th of November, at 11 am to mark the armistic signed between the World War 1 and Compiegne, France and Germany to end the hosilities on Western  Front of World War 1. 


The event took place on November 11th, 1918.



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