All British Airways articles – Page 3
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NewsBritish Airways expands at Gatwick with new Euroflyer routes
British Airways’ London Gatwick-based BA Euroflyer operation is adding four new destinations this year on which it will compete with EasyJet, including flights to Montpellier in France.
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Airline BusinessHow far through recovery are European airlines?
A carrier-by-carrier guide to the progress European airlines continued to make in their recovery from the Covid-19 crisis during the past year and a look at how much further they have to go in 2023.
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NewsBA sees no place in network for sub-70-seat zero-emission aircraft
British Airways is unlikely to invest in zero-emission aircraft with fewer than 70 seats in order to prove their viability, preferring to wait until a solution is found for narrowbody-sized jets, according to the carrier’s sustainability chief.
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NewsBA starts transferring jets to Euroflyer as new Gatwick carrier secures AOC
British Airways has started transferring aircraft to its new BA Euroflyer division after securing an air operator’s certificate for the carrier, set up to conduct short-haul operations from London Gatwick.
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NewsBritish Airways to start Cincinnati flights in 2023
British Airways plans to launch flights from London Heathrow to Cincinnati (Ohio) next summer, part of its ongoing US expansion.
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Airline BusinessHow airline transatlantic capacity has returned, a year since US borders reopened
The reopening of few markets from Covid border restrictions was so eagerly awaited and hard campaigned for as routes across the transatlantic.
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NewsGreater consideration of risks might have averted BA 787 nose-gear collapse
UK investigators believe a British Airways Boeing 787-8 nose-gear retraction accident at London Heathrow might have been prevented if health and safety risks in an airworthiness directive had been given greater attention by the operator. The accident occurred when a nose-gear locking pin was inserted in the wrong location on ...
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Airline BusinessVueling heads IAG carrier capacity and profits return
Spanish low-cost carrier Vueling is leading the pace in restoring capacity and profit returns among IAG carriers as the group sees all but British Airways and Level operating at or above 2019 ASKs in the first quarter of next year.
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NewsIAG sees full-year operating profit of €1.1bn after confirming strong third quarter
European airline group IAG expects to post an operating profit of €1.1 billion ($1.1 billion) before exceptionals for the full-year after confirming a strong third quarter in which all of its carriers were back in the black.
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NewsIAG confirms order for 37 more A320neos after shareholder approval
British Airways and Iberia parent IAG has confirmed an order for 37 A320neo aircraft, after its shareholders approved the purchase on 26 October. The order was announced in late July and followed agreements earlier in the year for 22 A320neo-family jets, meaning IAG has now made firm commitments for 59 ...
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NewsIAG reports ‘better than expected’ third-quarter trading
British Airways and Iberia owner IAG says trading during the third quarter was better than expected, driven by revenue strength on the passenger side of the business.
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Airline BusinessEuropean airline summer fades with clouds still on supply and demand horizon
After a summer in which travel demand was everything European carriers could have dreamt of, accompanied by nightmare operational challenges, attention is turning to what extent both trends might reappear next year
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Airline BusinessAirline partnership activity intensifies
In January, we posed the question: ‘If 2022 is not the year for new airline partnerships, when will be?’ It seemed logical that the Covid-19 crisis would prompt wounded carriers to see greater value in shoring up their market positions and/or expanding networks via closer relationships with other operators. And ...
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NewsBA and Qatar Airways significantly expand scope of joint business
British Airways and Qatar Airways have announced the expansion of their joint business to include dozens of countries from their respective networks. The 26 September announcement marks the realisation of a plan first announced in December last year and expands an existing joint business covering connections between Doha and London. ...
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NewsRyanair upgrades full-year traffic forecast after BA’s winter cuts
Ryanair has upgraded its full-year traffic forecast to 166.5 passengers, from 165 million, as it announced extra capacity on its UK services for the coming winter season.
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NewsAer Lingus and British Airways sign for sustainable fuel at San Francisco
IAG carriers British Airways and Aer Lingus will both benefit from a sustainable aviation fuel agreement covering their operations to San Francisco. The airlines have reached a deal with Californian renewable fuels firm Aemetis which involves its delivering 78,400t – around 26 million gallons – of fuel to the carriers ...
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NewsBA A350-1000 struck tail during go-around after prolonged float
UK investigators have determined that a British Airways Airbus A350-1000 suffered a tail-strike during a go-around at London Heathrow when its first officer initially applied full nose-up pitch input after the twinjet briefly touched down. The aircraft, inbound from Dubai on 2 January, had been arriving to runway 27L with ...
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NewsIAG takes 20% stake in Air Europa
British Airways and Iberia owner IAG has converted a loan to the parent company of Air Europa into a 20% stake in the airline.
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NewsBritish Airways temporarily limits Heathrow short-haul ticket sales
British Airways is limiting sales of tickets for its short-haul flights from London Heathrow Airport for at least one week, citing an earlier request from the hub to restrict new bookings. Heathrow announced in mid-July that it would cap daily departing passenger numbers for the summer peak season at 100,000, ...
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NewsReferencing lag still hampering Heathrow personnel ramp-up
IAG chief Luis Gallego hopes the operational situation at London Heathrow will improve by the end of the year, but stresses that multiple parties need to co-operate to increase resilience at the hub. Speaking during IAG’s second-quarter briefing, Gallego said that punctuality figures show there are still days where “we ...