Gatwick future under threat as Virgin Atlantic ends operations and axes 3,000 jobs By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:55 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 22:55 BST, 5 May 2020 Gatwick Airport is facing a crisis after Virgin Atlantic ended its operations there. The airline is axing 3,000 jobs and will now … Read more
British Airways plans to cut the jobs of a quarter of its pilots and could abandon Gatwick Airport altogether in a bid for post-coronavirus survival, it was revealed today. The news was revealed in a memo, written by the head of BA’s Gatwick operation and seen by BBC News. This comes as it was revealed … 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 grounds ALL flights to and from Gatwick due to coronavirus – hours after easyJet took its entire fleet out of service By Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter For Mailonline Published: 07:10 BST, 31 March 2020 | Updated: 07:11 BST, 31 March 2020 British Airways today axed all its flights to and from Gatwick Airport … Read more
‘Get the police!’: Terrified passengers scatter as brawling yobs throw punches and insults in Gatwick airport arrivals hall before onlookers step in to separate them Two groups of men clashed at Gatwick’s north terminal at 7.50pm on Tuesday One witness said other passengers ‘were running off in terror, thinking the worst’ Members of the public … Read more