British Airways has announced that it will do away with all free meals on its short-haul services – with the exception of breakfast – in a cost-cutting move aimed at saving the financially-strapped carrier as much as £22 million annually. From 10:00am, passengers on flights of less than two hours’ duration will find only a [...]

Sources have confirmed that some of the major airlines will prohibit passengers exhibiting swine flu symptoms from boarding flights. According to British Airways, so far they have had only a “very small number of cases” in which passengers showing symptoms of H1N1 were advised by medics not to fly. Virgin Atlantic said that passengers with [...]

In comments made earlier this week, the chairman of British Airways issued a warning that first- and business-class air travel may never fully recover – even when the economy does. Martin Broughton said that the airline industry was experiencing the worst crisis in its history and that a “permanent structural change” involving premium-class travel will [...]

www.britishairways.com Pilots at British Airways voted overwhelmingly to accept a pay cut of 2.6 per cent as part of an overall package aimed at reducing the carrier’s operating costs by £26 million. The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) announced that its members voted in favour of the cut in wages and a reduction of up [...]

www.britishairways.com Over 2,000 BA employees, including cabin crew members, sent the carrier a “strong message” that they would not tolerate the company’s “assault” on their pay or working terms and conditions. In a meeting held near Heathrow Airport, the workers indicated that they were concerned they would lose their jobs if they resisted the planned [...]

www.oag.com According to figures just released, the continuing decline in airline passenger numbers has led to carriers dropping 200 routes in just this past year. The airline industry’s main data source, the Official Airline Guide (OAG), has reported that 192 of the routes into and out of the UK in June 2008 are no longer [...]

www.BritishAirways.com As leading airline British Airways battle to stay ahead of the recession and stay in the black despite plummeting ticket sales, a mass meeting of British Airways workers was held to discuss plans to cut costs by terminating thousands of jobs and freezing salaries. A total of more than 2,000 employees have decided to [...]