British Airways Christmas strike threat looms

The Unite union said Monday it will announce the results of a planned ballot of British Airways PLC cabin crew for strike action in mid-December, raising the prospect of a walkout over the busy Christmas period.

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Qantas, BA fined for cargo price fixing

Qantas Airways and British Airways were fined by an Australian court Thursday for their involvement in a price-fixing cartel in the global air freight industry, a national competition watchdog said.

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BA shares soar 15 pct, despite $77 million 1H loss

British Airways PLC on Friday reported a first-half net loss of 49 million pounds ($77 million), as record high oil prices and a global economic slowdown hit the airline's bottom line.

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UK report says ice caused hard landing at Heathrow

Ice in fuel lines probably caused a British Airways jet to lose power and make a jarring emergency landing in London in January, investigators said Thursday.

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BA closes in on deal with American

British Airways PLC, which is already in talks with Spain's Iberia SA over a combination, said Monday it hopes to seal an alliance with its U.S. partner American Airlines within weeks.

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BA and Iberia in combination talks

British Airways PLC and Spain's Iberia SA said Tuesday they are in talks over a potential all-share combination.

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Community college student Kristen Grand dreams of transferring to Cal State Long Beach so she can earn a bachelor's degree in social work and become an adoption caseworker.

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PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) Working Committee member Gul Mina Bilal Ahmad says at least eight more girls' colleges will be established in Malakand Division, while the damaged educational institutions will be re-built with the financial assistance of different donor age …

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Business class passengers famously draw envious glances from the herd in economy by turning left when they enter a plane, but it is the first class ticket holders who are the most pampered.

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British Airways Launches 'London for Free'

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Passengers of airline British Airways (BA) lose more bags and suffer more delays than any other large European airline, according to a confidential report seen by The Times.

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British Airways and Spain's Iberia on Tuesday announced they were in merger talks as the airline industry seeks to consolidate to compensate for rising oil costs that have been hitting both their top- and bottom-lines.

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BA's passenger numbers are down 3.7% in June. For June 2008 BA carried 2.91 million passengers, this is 87,000 less than June last year. BA's business class also fell sharply with passenger numbers down 3.1%.

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British Airways (BA) has increased fuel surcharges for travellers in its premium classes. This is the first time BA has introduced different surcharges for different classes.

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BA are increasing fuel surcharges only a month after their last increase. The last increase was reported in 'In the News' on 30 April 2008. Fuel surcharges for short haul flights are rising from £26 return to £32 return and long haul from £158 to £218.

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Ladbrokes chief Chris Bell has had a personal spat with British Airways (haven't we all).

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The Chief Executive of Ladbrokes, Chris Bell, is preventing all his 14,000 staff to fly with British Airways (BA). This follows a dispute with BA as the airline tried to prevent his 14 year old daughter and a friend from boarding a flight from Barbados.

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Further chaos occurred at Heathrow Terminal 5 yesterday as 144 British Airways (BA) flights were cancelled. Ongoing problems with the baggage handling system caused 12 flights to be cancelled, the remaining were caused by snow as the runways and planes had to be de-iced.

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The much-ballyhooed opening of Heathrow's £4 billion Terminal 5 has been a debacle. British Airways has canceled 208 flights since Thursday, and has "stranded" between 15,000 and 20,000 bags.

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The British Airways (BA) pilot strike threat (reported 'In the News' 22 February 2008) over the Easter holiday has been called off. The strike would have affected over 100,000 BA passengers traveling over the holiday.

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Airports operator BAA faced strong criticism from three of its biggest airline customers, British Airways, easyJet and American Airlines, during questioning by MPs yesterday on BAA's lax service standards.

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British Airways (BA) has pulled out of plans to increase its stake in Iberia, signalling it no longer wishes to takeover the Spanish airline.

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Price increases for airline passengers will not cover the increased cost in security BAA claimed today.

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This order is a mixed bag for both Boeing and Airbus. It hits Boeing hard by seeing Airbus get more A380 sales and thus stymie the 747-8 again, but similarly it also marks a very bad beating for the A350-XWB against Boeing's seemingly unstoppable 787.

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British Airways has placed an order for 36 new aircraft - the largest the airline has made since 1998. BA will buy 12 Airbus A380 superjumbos and 24 Boeing 787s, to be delivered between 2010 and 2014, an order which has a list price of $8.2bn (£4.1bn).

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It was previously going to be an all or nothing deal for either Boeing or Airbus, but it now seems as if BA is willing to split the order and pay the price in terms of dis-economies of scale for the sake of flexibility.

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As BA ponders whether to buy the Airbus A380 or Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental, its decision could have far-reaching consequences for other airlines

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Dear President Crow: cc: Vice President/ Dean CLAS David A. Young:

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British Airways was today hit with its second lost luggage fiasco in a fortnight as another 6,000 bags were stuck at Heathrow.

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The British Airways replacement order is being hard fought over. Interestingly, there does seem to be some perception that it is a test of the A380 vs. the 747-8.

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