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Adam Smith Institute Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Amidst considerable brouhaha, the market reacted positively to BA’s long-delayed merger with Spain’s Iberia, on an effective 56%/44% basis. Not surprisingly, opposition to the merger has arisen, both from Virgin, who still recall BA’s role in the grounding of Laker Airways, and from the loquacious Michael O’Leary of Ryanair. BA itself has many other challenges on its plate,...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
CONCORDE may have to leave Heathrow, its spiritual home, because British Airways is struggling to find space to put it on display.
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TravelDailyNews.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
British Airways is adding an additional flight to Shanghai this December, taking the number of services from five to six flights a week as of December 4, 2009. The decision has been taken due
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Transactions by British Airways and Cable and Wireless have left questions over which assets are available to repair the huge deficits that schemes of both employers now carry
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London City (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Law360, New York (November 19, 2009) -- A group of passengers who say they were injured when a British Airways flight crashed outside of London ...
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ClickPress (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
British Airways is adding an additional flight to its Shanghai route this December, following increased customer demand on the popular route over the past year
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) emergn, a specialized consultancy enabling lean and agile principles across the value chain, today announced a series of successful projects with British Airways that have laid the foundation for the airline giant's corporate-wide adoption of lean and agile project management principles. Following project engagements to implement methods for faster, higher-quality web site...
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India Press Release (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
UK's largest international airline makes Progress Software part of its programme to transform passenger and airport systems
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Occupational Pensioners’ Alliance (OPA), which represents members of pension schemes, has called on British Airways to appoint an independent chairman to its board of trustees.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
SOUTH NORWALK, Conn., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the world's leading long-haul airlines, has responded to the European Commission's Statement of Objections about British Airways and American Airlines' plans to effectively merge. Virgin Atlantic has previously told regulators in Europe and the U.S. that BA/AA would be a monster monopoly and should not be allowed to go ahead....
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The Cranky Flier (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Has there been a stranger courtship than that between British Airways and Iberia? The airlines, which have been talking for years, have finally agreed to merge, sort of. I mean, it’ll get there eventually. I believe talks began in 1784 when King George III, still sad about losing that whole American Revolutionary War thing, [...]
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EPR Network Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Released on: November 17, 2009, 6:33 am Author: British Airways Industry: Travel British Airways is adding an additional flight to Shanghai this December, taking the number of services from five to six flights a week as of December 4, 2009. The decision has been taken due to increased customer demand on the popular route over the past year. BA’s regional general [...]
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
CHICAGO, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Over 220 Chicago-area business owners and entrepreneurs will fly to London and points beyond today, courtesy of British Airways, as part of the airline's "Face-to-Face" campaign. The campaign, which was launched in July of this year, underscores the importance of in-person meetings for revitalizing business. The airline solicited stories from U.S. businesses...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The budget carrier's hike in bag charges paid off – even Sir Stelios approved To see inflation in action, look at easyJet's checked-in bag charges. These were introduced in September 2008 at £5 a bag. That soon became £8, then £9. The airline's plan was to soften the impact of rising fuel costs and it has worked. easyJet's revenue per seat rose 11% in the year to September,...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hoover’s, Inc. (www.hoovers.com) today announced a free Webinar to help attendees close the year strong: Sales, Prospects, and Clients: Getting Back To Face-To-Face. Presented by Nancy Solomon, author of Impact!: What Every Woman Needs to Know to Go From Invisible to Invincible (Wiley, Nov. 2009), and sponsored by British Airways, this event will give you an inside...
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Carter Stewart | 10/03/2009
When American Airlines (AA) and British Airways (BA) filed for antitrust immunity in 2002 there was little hope that an agreement could be reached with the US and EU Regulatory authorities. New entrants into the EU-US market were prohibited, and AA and BA were opposing businesses nearing an effective monopoly hold on daily departures between Heathrow and the US. In 2007, the first phase of the new