Gulp. Captain Mike Blythe, British Airways Flight Technical and Training Manager for the Airbus A380 and A350 is sitting next to me. ‘Take a deep breath,’ he says. Why? Because I’m about to take a British Airways Airbus A350 down one of London Heathrow’s runways and take-off for the very first time. Ted prepares to … Read more
British Airways pilot forced to take ‘£40,000 pay cut’ when he was stopped from flying by coronavirus starts new job as Tesco delivery driver Peter Login has ditched Boeing 747s for a Tesco Mercedes Sprinter delivery van British Airways pilots were told to take a 50% pay cut in addition to unpaid leave He was … Read more
British Airways worker, 29, finds her £480 iPhone 8 still works TWO MONTHS after she dropped it in the Thames Thayse Bussolo-Vieira was feeding swans when iPhone 8 dropped out of pocket British Airways worker, 29, returned to same area with fiancee two months later They found £480 phone ‘sitting at bottom’ of river and … Read more
British Airways has struck a deal with its unions to suspend more than 30,000 cabin crew and ground staff in one of the airline industry’s most dramatic moves yet to survive the coronavirus pandemic. With global travel in turmoil as the virus takes hold around the world, BA’s owner, IAG, said it would also cut … Read more
British Airways is expected to announce it will suspend around 36,000 staff as it battles to survive the coronavirus crisis. The airline has reached a broad deal with the Unite union that will include the suspension of 80 per cent of BA’s cabin crew, ground staff, engineers and those working at head office. Crucially however, no staff … Read more
Relieved passengers burst into applause after a British Airways repatriation flight from Peru landed at Gatwick this morning – but thousands of Brits still stranded abroad. The flight was one of two BA flights that took off from Lima on Monday evening and arrived safely in the UK on Tuesday morning. Footage posted on social … Read more
British Airways pilots have opted to take a 50 per cent pay cut in April and May as the company fights for its survival amidst the coronavirus pandemic. BA employs 4,500 pilots who will take two weeks of unpaid leave each month. The reduction in their salary will be spread out over three months to … Read more
The UK Government is drawing up plans to buy shares in British Airways and other airlines hit by the Pandemic Crisis to keep them afloat, insiders confirmed. Talks are in place which could see the State holding equity stakes in companies on the brink of collapse as coronavirus panic damages the UK economy. Billions of … Read more
Ryanair has finished bottom of the respected Which? annual airline survey for the seventh consecutive year – with British Airways slipping further down both the long-haul and short-haul rankings. In the consumer champion’s poll, passengers have given the Irish budget carrier the lowest possible rating for boarding, seat comfort, food and drink, customer service and … Read more
London’s Heathrow Airport can seem unfathomable if you don’t use it very often. The trick to taming it? Follow the advice of the experts, right here. MailOnline Travel has asked frequent fliers from aviation sites, British Airways and American Airlines employees, etiquette expert William Hanson and Heathrow Airport’s Director of Customer Relations and Service for … Read more