Looks At Effect Of Merger

Unite seeks protections for workers

LONDON (August 1, 2009) - Unite, the UK's biggest trade union, which represents more than 75,000 workers in the aviation industry and some 25,000 within British Airways (BA) and Iberia, today took ...

BA-Iberia Merger

British Airways to merge with Iberia

British Airways ended months of speculation by announcing it was to merge with long-term Spanish partner Iberia.

French Airline L'Avion To Be Integrated With New Transatlantic Subsidiary OpenSkies

British Airways completes purchase of L'Avion

PARIS and NEW YORK - British Airways today announced that it has completed the purchase of French airline L'Avion, which will be integrated with British Airways' new subsidiary OpenSkies.

Airline alliances

Virgin Atlantic objects to airline alliances

Virgin Atlantic has reacted to reports that British Airways may be seeking an alliance with American Airlines and Iberia.

OpenSkies And L'Avion To Join Forces

British Airways announces agreement to acquire French airline L'Avion

British Airways today announced an agreement to acquire French airline L'Avion and integrate the company with its new subsidiary OpenSkies, buying the French carrier for 54 million pounds (68 ...

Naomi Campbell Vs. British Airways - Better Match Yet To Be Found

Naomi Campbell: Airline called me 'golliwog supermodel'

LONDON - Naomi Campbell accused British Airways of racism just hours after pleading guilty to charges of assaulting a police officer following an "air rage" incident at Heathrow airport.

IT Agreement Extended To 2017

British Airways and Amadeus renew technology agreement

British Airways and Amadeus today announced they were extending their existing relationship for another 10 years until 2017.

British Airways - The "Legacy" Keeps Building Up

It's easy to be snotty with an airline so haughty that it regards its own customers as an inconvenience

Oh, those wretched "disruptive" passengers!

BA and Virgin Atlantic To Pay

$210M settlement in airline price fixing is approved

SAN FRANCISCO — An agreement by two British-based airlines to pay roughly $210 million to settle a massive price-fixing lawsuit met with tentative approval from a federal judge on Friday.

Grenada Aviation

American Airlines returns to Grenada after a 10-year break

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada (eTN) – Grenadian Tourism Minister Claris Modeste-Curwen has confirmed that the “government and American Airlines has signed an agreement resulting in the airline ...

Heathrow Airport

Chaos continues at London's new Terminal 5

LONDON (eTN) - British Airways is reeling in embarrassment at the chaotic launch of its new London home, Heathrow Terminal 5. Two weeks after the opening of the state-of-the-art terminal, systems ...

BA Pilots' Union Calls For Change In Management Style

British Airways pilots: BA is a "laughing stock"

LONDON - The union representing British Airways PLC pilots added its voice to criticism of the airline on Monday, claiming the carrier's brand has become a "laughing stock" over woes at Heathrow's ...

British Airways

BA flights canceled at Heathrow, airline seeks help with misplaced luggage

LONDON - British Airways canceled more flights at its new terminal at Heathrow Airport on Wednesday and sought help from Milan, Italy, in returning misplaced luggage to its customers.

«We ...

UK

British Airways pilots protest plan to start new airline

British Airways Plc pilots today demonstrated at the carrier's London headquarters against the company's plans to start a new airline.

OpenSkies

BA's OpenSkies reveals details of business class cabin

OpenSkies, BA’s airline within an airline, has revealed further details of its new business class offering, including a photo of the seats.

The airline is to call the business class ...

British Airways

Talks to avert Easter BA strike

Crucial talks aimed at averting a strike by British Airways pilots are due to begin, with the Easter travel plans of tens of thousands of families resting on a breakthrough in a row over jobs and ...

Isreal Aviation

Israeli airlines face yet more cut-price competition

TEL AVIV, Israel (eTN) - Until a couple of years ago it seemed as though no one was going to break the stranglehold of British Airways and El Al on the London to Tel Aviv route. The national ...

BA Strike Averted

British Airways pilots back off on strike

British Airways pilots on Thursday stepped back from a strike authorization less than a day after giving it overwhelming approval.
During a meeting between union officials and airline ...

OpenSkies Reveals First Route And Plans For Expansion

BA's new airline to fly direct Paris-JFK from June

OpenSkies, the new airline launched by British Airways to operate direct services from Europe to the US, intends to launch its first services on the route between Paris and New York JFK. ...

British Airways

BA to be named official airline of London 2012 Olympics

LONDON - British Airways PLC will be unveiled as the official airline of the London 2012 Olympics next week in a deal worth some 50 mln stg, reported Marketing magazine.

Latin America

Tourism this week in Latin America

ARGENTINA
Tourist arrival grew by 15 percent in 2007
The arrival of foreign tourists grew by 15 percent last year, reaching the amount of 2.2 million visitors. Most tourists to visit ...

British Airways

BA pilots to vote on strike over offshoot launch

British Airways pilots will vote on whether to walk out over the airline's plans to launch a subsidiary business, it was announced today.

The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) said ...

BA

British Airways bets on a boutique airline offshoot

British Airways announced plans last week to join the new boutique premium-class airline game across the Atlantic. But it is not bringing a lot of money to the table.

British Airways

British Airways pilots use Heathrow crash as weapon in dispute

The pilots’ union will use the narrowly averted disaster last Thursday to appeal today to British Airways to abandon what it claims could be a weakening of safety standards at a new sister ...

Close Call for BA

BA crash at Heathrow

LONDON (eTN) - A British Airways jet made an emergency landing short of the runway at London Heathrow. The Boeing 777 was making its approach on a flight from Beijing with 136 passengers and 16 ...

It's runway or else for Willie Walsh, BA and...UK?

Airline boss stakes hard line on the new runway

A British Airways chief has warned the company could pull out of Britain altogether if plans for a third runway at Heathrow are blocked.

BA's chief executive Willie Walsh was taking a hard ...

BA vs. Air France

New BA airline takes on Air France with Paris-New York flights

British Airways is launching a new airline in a direct attack on the home turf of Air France, offering flights from Paris and Brussels to New York.

British Airways

BA named Best Airline at WTA2007

(TVLW) - The World Traveller Awards (WTA) this year named British Airways as the World’s Leading Airline at the Global ceremony which took place earlier in the month.

Hosted this year in ...

Kenya Election

With no fear on election run-ups, tourism in Kenya is stable

NAIROBI, Kenya (eTN) - Kenya retains its fame as the leading East African tourist destination in spite of election tensions once feared to scare away tourists.

The heightened political ...