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Local ticket prices have risen by at least 35% to 40% as a result of Comair’s collapse
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Unions and business rescue practitioners have until Friday afternoon to agree on a settlement and start the process of shutting the airline down
A Nigerian minister has courted ridicule after saying citizens are having pizzas delivered from London with the help of British Airways
The direct flight will boost trade and increase tourism in KwaZulu-Natal
Repeated strikes by France’s controllers are having a devastating impact on schedules and denying passengers their legal right to free movement
‘It is one of the major announcements of the year’
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Roughly one in four people is afraid of flying, but there is a cure: attend a British Airways Flying with Confidence course.
The International Air Transport Association claims bans of flights out of countries suffering the spread of the disease are unnecessary.
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British Airways launched its new A380 Airbus in style with champagne, fashion from Harrods and food catered by the Saxon.
Four airport staff members have been injured after a British Airways plane hit a building at OR Tambo International Airport just before taking off.
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/ 10 November 2010
Europe’s competition watchdog hit 11 airlines with nearly €800-million in fines on Tuesday for running a global cargo cartel.
An Angry Richard Branson has branded Britain’s airport closure a joke as volcanic ash cloud continues to cause travel chaos in Europe.
BA and Spanish flag carrier Iberia on Thursday announced a merger deal to create one of the world’s biggest airlines.
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/ 18 December 2009
British Airways won a high court battle on Thursday to prevent cabin crew staging a 12-day walkout.
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/ 17 December 2009
A London court was set to decide on Thursday whether to grant an injunction blocking a strike by British Aiways cabin crew.
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/ 14 December 2009
BA cabin crew have voted in favour of strike action in protest over pay and are set to walk out over the busy Christmas and New Year holiday season.
While Trevor Manuel may think South African businesses are cowards by not standing up to the unions, CEOs are rubbing their hands in glee.
British Airways said on Tuesday it had asked its staff to work for free as part of the company’s battle for ”survival” in tough market conditions.
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/ 9 February 2009
Comair on Monday challenged the Airports Company of South Africa’s recently announced tariff hikes of more than 18%.
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/ 23 September 2008
BA said on Tuesday it had cancelled flights to Pakistan indefinitely after a suicide truck bomb blast at a hotel in Islamabad at the weekend.
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/ 11 September 2008
Maya Fisher-French looks at how the airline is flying high in the industry.
British Airways has criticised Heathrow owner BAA for allowing US President George Bush to fly to the airport, forcing the cancellation of 69 flights.
British Airways risks further undermining its relationship with pilots on Thursday as it starts selling tickets for its transatlantic OpenSkies airline. The Paris-to-New York service will begin flying on June 19 with the threat of crippling industrial action still hanging over its owner.
South African stocks were weaker at noon on Wednesday with miners under pressure on retreating metal prices, but the session was quiet as most traders are still away on a long weekend break. At noon, the JSE’s broader all-share index was down 0,46%, with the gold and platinum mining indices down 1,47% and 1,65% respectively.
Gerhard Zandberg’s South African swimming contingent was caught up in the chaos at Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow airport in London, which caused the swimmers to miss their connection flight to Manchester. The terminal opened recently only to descend into disorder as its baggage-handling system broke down.
After nearly two weeks of baggage chaos and hundreds of cancelled flights, London Heathrow airport was hit by bad weather on Sunday, which forced British Airways (BA) to cancel 114 flights. Two runways at Heathrow were briefly closed for de-icing as snow fell in London and air-traffic control reduced the number of take-off and landing slots.
Baggage handling chaos at London Heathrow’s new Terminal Five (T5) is likely to cost British Airways up to £25-million (,7-million), analysts at Citibank said on Monday. Nearly 250 flights have been cancelled since Thursday’s troubled opening of the ,6-billion showcase terminal.
British Airways drafted in extra staff on Sunday to shift 15 000 items of baggage built up since the disastrous opening of its showcase terminal at London’s Heathrow Airport. With nearly 250 flights cancelled since Thursday’s opening of the ,6-billion Terminal Five (T5) and more cancellations due in coming days, the airline could not say when matters would return to normal.
British Airways cancelled more than a 100 flights over the weekend following a chaotic opening of its new ,6-billion terminal at London’s Heathrow airport. It said it had cut 66 short-haul and European flights on Saturday and would cancel 37 more on Sunday after Terminal Five’s (T5) grand opening on Thursday descended into chaos.
British Airways cancelled a fifth of flights from its new ,6-billion terminal five (T5) at Heathrow on Friday as the chaos from its shambolic opening spilled into a second day. The airline said it was dropping the short-haul flights to ”create more capacity” as it tried to get back on top of the mess left by Thursday’s opening.
Beijing has opened a huge new ,6-billion airport terminal ahead of the expected influx of millions of visitors to this summer’s Olympics, part of a multibillion-dollar infrastructure boost for the capital. The impressive terminal’s nearly 3km-long concourse is divided into three sections and connected by a shuttle train.