A page on the Facebook website, allegedly authored by London Gatwick ground staff has attacked the airline’s passengers and also described the new £4.3 billion Heathrow Terminal 5 as a debacle. The distaste expressed by the staff for British Airways customers is similar to that found on a similar page on the social networking site  Continue Reading »

Airports in countries across the globe have initiated expansion projects over the past decade that have included constructing new runways and terminals geared toward handling increased passenger and freight traffic that seemed destined to continue growing. Many of the development projects have been completed, or are nearing completion, and industry experts are saying that the  Continue Reading »

The new Aerion Supersonic Jet is said to have a top speed of mach 1.6, and its promoters are asserting that it will transform the conduct of international business. Its designers admit that the aircraft doesn’t have the same style or grace of the Concorde, however. It is anticipated that test flights will be run  Continue Reading »

Virgin Atlantic and British Airways have both announced that they are reducing the fuel surcharges levied on airfares. One day after Virgin announced that it would be reducing surcharges, BA followed suit with reductions of the same amounts. Neither of the carriers, however, has lowered surcharges levied on first class fares. BA World Traveller passengers  Continue Reading »

Emergency services were in place as a British Airways Boeing 757, filled with fumes, and with 137 passengers on board, landed at Heathrow Airport shortly after 8:00am on Monday. No one on board was taken ill or hurt during the incident and passengers disembarked normally after the plane landed, which had departed the Nice, France  Continue Reading »

When he was 22 years old, Brian Barnett won a seat on the first transatlantic passenger jet flight. His instructions were to get a passport and a smallpox vaccination and to pack a bag. One day later he was on board a BOAC Comet headed for New York’s Idlewild Airport and, along with 40 other  Continue Reading »

British Airways is feeling increased pressure to incorporate fuel surcharges back into its published air fares. The airline’s general manager for UK and global corporate sales, Richard Tams, said to agents attending the Advantage Travel Conference that as fuel prices rose the issue was “occupying our minds.” He explained the two reasons for not making  Continue Reading »

On Friday, air passengers in the UK faced further delays as a result of Thursday’s computer failure at the main air traffic control centre in Britain. British Airways was forced to cancel a number of its domestic and short-haul flights to Europe from Heathrow Airport on Friday morning as a result of airspace in southeast  Continue Reading »

Thousand of Britons are finding their holiday plans in jeopardy after British Airways halted flights to Islamabad, Pakistan following the devastating suicide bomb attack on a major hotel in the city last week. Eid is the biggest holiday on the annual Muslim calendar, and marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. It is  Continue Reading »

British Airways is talking about charging its passengers to carry golf clubs, skis and other sports equipment, following the example of some no-frills carriers. The airline’s chief executive, Willie Walsh, said that the carrier was considering this option, in remarks he made at a meeting of budget airlines in London earlier this week. Ryanair currently  Continue Reading »

Airlines are increasingly being criticized for failing to reduce fuel surcharges that they introduced during the oil price surge earlier this year, even though there has been a steady drop in the price of oil, according to a report in The Telegraph. Over the summer, many carriers introduced or increased fuel charges in response to  Continue Reading »

Iberia will suspend all air service between Madrid and Gibraltar at the end of this week, the airline announced, citing economic reasons. The discontinuations of flights by Iberia will mean that the British territory will no longer have an air link with Spain. “The last flight will be on September 28,” said a spokeswoman for  Continue Reading »