title: Ross Stainton
text: # Ross Stainton
  
  Sir John Ross Stainton CBE (27 May 1914 - 5 December 2011) was a British businessman, and a former chief executive of British Airways and BOAC in the 1970s.
  
  ## Early life
  
  He attended independent school in Worcestershire.
  
  ## Career
  
  ### Imperial Airways
  
  He joined Imperial Airways in 1933.
  
  ### Royal Air Force
  
  He served in the Royal Air Force from 1940.
  
  ### BOAC
  
  He joined BOAC.
  
  ### British Airways
  
  BOAC became British Airways in 1974.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  He married in 1933; his wife died in 2001. He had three daughters. He was awarded the CBE in the 1971 Birthday Honours. He was knighted in the 1981 New Year Honours. He lived in Camberley, off the B311.
  
  