British Airways says 800 workers have volunteered to work for nothing for up to a month, following its request to cut costs.
[From 800 BA workers set to work unpaid]
British Airways and Qantas have given up an attempt to merge, leaving the British carrier free to pursue a tie-up with Iberia.
The Australian and British airlines failed to agree on the most basic term of the merger: how to share ownership of the proposed combined business.
Qantas’s market valuation is higher than British Airways, implying that [...]
The first Boeing 757-200 for British Airways’ new OpenSkies division has emerged from the paint shop equipped with Aviation Partners winglets. The airline, created to take advantage of the EU/US open skies agreement that came into effect in March, is due to begin services in June flying between New York and Paris Charles de Gaulle.
British Airways are currently preparing for their 12-double decker A380’s which should arrive from April 2012.
… The A380 is a much quieter aircraft and is producing only a quarter of the noise of the Boeing 747-400.
British Airways and Korean Air both officially pleaded guilty to price-fixing charges yesterday in a US federal court, which levied a fine of $300 million against each.
The carriers previously had agreed to pay that amount in an accord with the Dept. of Justice as part of the ongoing investigation into antitrust violations by airlines around [...]
