Posted by jones in Worldwide Flights on October 13th, 2008 | No Comments
Channel 4 attacks British Airways
British Airways will be in the firing line in a TV documentary tonight for blaming cancelled flights on "extraordinary circumstances" to avoid paying compensation. Channel 4 Dispatches programme The Trouble with British Airways focuses on the airline’s woes following the disastrous opening...
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Posted by Naseer Ahmad in Airline News on October 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment
British Airways will increase flights to Dubai and Johannesburg services
British Airways will increase the number of flights it operates each week from Heathrow to Dubai by almost 50% from next spring. The airline will operate 20 flights a week to the emirate instead of the current 14 from 29 March 2009. The carrier is also increasing weekly services from Heathrow to Johannesburg...
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Posted by Naseer Ahmad in Airline Financial News on October 10th, 2008 | No Comments
Iberia raises stake in British Airways
Iberia has taken advantage of the steep fall in the British Airways share price to more than double its stake in BA to 7.3 per cent in the past three weeks. The Spanish flag carrier announced at the end of July it had bought an initial stake of 2.99 per cent as the two airlines disclosed they had begun...
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Posted by Naseer Ahmad in Airline Financial News on October 4th, 2008 | No Comments
Luxury Travel Declines at British Airways
British Airways said first- and business-class travel fell 8.6 percent last month as the credit crisis and economic slowdown led to job losses and tighter budgets in the City of London and Wall Street. Overall traffic declined 4.8 percent from a year earlier, the airline said. Load factor, a measure...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News on August 8th, 2008 | No Comments
British Airways to have far fewer seats for Christmas
Those looking to go on a Christmas holiday later this year had best book their tickets early in order to both secure a seat and avoid the highest prices, as the United Kingdom’s largest airlines have indicated that they would cut capacity by significant margins. In fact, there will be around 60 million...
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Posted by Travigators in Airline News, Travel, Worldwide Flights on June 21st, 2008 | No Comments
British Airways adds fuel charges to first and business class seats
British Airways has introduced increases of up to 26 per cent in fuel surcharges for its highest paying passengers, its second rise for premium flyers in just over a fortnight. Business class and first-class passengers on longer flights will pay a surcharge of up to £266 for a return ticket — up from...
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