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.
He attended independent school in Worcestershire.
He joined Imperial Airways in 1933.
He served in the Royal Air Force from 1940.
He joined BOAC.
BOAC became British Airways in 1974.
He married in 1933;[1] 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.[2]