Tag: British Airways

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  (VIDEO) Terrifying moments as British Airways plane was rocked by turbulence on approaching Gibraltar

  

  Shocking footage has emerged of the terrifying moment that a British Airways plane was buffeted by turbulence as it approached the runway in Gibraltar, forcing pilots to abort and divert to Málaga instead.

• Thursday, January 24th 2019 - 06:48 UTC

  British Airways going back to the future for its 100 years

  

  British Airways going back to the future and painting four of its aircraft in colors schemes from its past as part of its 100-year birthday this year. First aircraft, a BOAC-liveried Boeing 747, reg: G-BYGC, will arrive back at Heathrow from the paint factory on February 18 to enter the airline’s flying schedule.

• Tuesday, January 8th 2019 - 07:32 UTC

  Ryanair, UK's least liked short-haul airline for sixth year running

  

  Ryanair has won the dubious honor of the UK's least-liked short-haul airline for the sixth year running. The results from a Which survey of airline passengers ranked Ryanair at the bottom of 19 carriers flying from the UK. A Ryanair spokesperson said the airline's success was not reflected in the survey.

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 07:08 UTC

  Norwegian Air plans to break British Airways London/Rio do Janeiro “monopoly”

  

  Budget carrier Norwegian Air plans to start flights between London and Rio de Janeiro in March to break what it said was a “monopoly” enjoyed by British Airways between the two cities.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 04:39 UTC

  British Airways: Hackers access details of 380,000 passengers

  

  UK media are reporting the information includes credit card details, residential addresses and email details but the airline said the hackers had not accessed itineraries or passport details.

• Friday, June 29th 2018 - 04:25 UTC

  IAG expands low-cost long-haul airline Level with operations from Vienna

  

  British Airways' owner IAG is expanding its low-cost long-haul airline Level further by launching short-haul routes from a base in Austria. The move puts it further in competition with rivals EasyJet and Ryanair. IAG launched the Level brand more than a year ago as a low-cost rival to challenger Norwegian.

• Tuesday, June 6th 2017 - 06:54 UTC

  British Airways says “human error” led to travel chaos for 75.000 passengers

  

  The boss of British Airways' parent company says that human error caused an IT meltdown that led to travel chaos for 75,000 passengers. Willie Walsh. chief executive of IAG, said an engineer disconnected a power supply, with the major damage caused by a surge when it was reconnected. He said there would now be an independent investigation “to learn from the experience”.

• Monday, May 29th 2017 - 08:35 UTC

  British Airways disruption as it tries to overcome impact of worldwide computer system crash

  

  British Airways passengers were facing on Sunday a third day of disruption at Heathrow as the airline deals with the impact of a worldwide computer system crash. BA says it aims to operate a full long-haul schedule and a “high proportion” of short-haul services after the outage caused by a power failure.

• Thursday, January 5th 2017 - 07:38 UTC

  London-Santiago direct flights inaugurated on Wednesday

  

  The new direct flight London-Santiago de Chile inaugurated on Wednesday should help increase the number of visitors from Britain and Europe, said Chilean authorities when they received the British Airways flight at the Chilean capital airport.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 07:59 UTC

  Latam/BA/Iberia deal questioned by Brazil´s competition regulator

  

  Brazil's competition regulator Cade said on Monday that a deal between LATAM Airlines LAN.SN, British Airways and Iberia could have a negative impact on routes between Brazil and Europe. Chile-headquartered LATAM signed joint business agreements in January to deepen its ties with American Airlines Group and IAG's British Airways and Iberia, all members of the Oneworld Alliance.