British Airways has announced that it will buy l’Avion, a struggling French business airline, for 68 million euros ($107.3 million). L’Avion has recently been operating flights between New York’s JFK airport and Paris Orly, and will become part of its new OpenSkies unit. The airline was founded by pilot Frantz Yvelin and Marc Rochet, a [...]
As has been already announced, British Airways will move about a quarter of its flights from Terminal 4 to the new Terminal 5 on June 5. The changes will affect eight long-haul destinations such as New York and Phoenix in the U.S, Abuja and Lagos, Nigeria; Bangalore, India; Beijing; Cairo, Egypt; and Cape Town, South [...]
British Airways is experiencing serious problems with its automated baggage system in London Heathrow’s new Terminal 5. Thousand of suitcases are being sent to Milan warehouse simply because BA can’t manage to provide a screening service to at least 20,000 bags that missed flights from Terminal 5. The Times reports that luggage belonging to domestic [...]