Thousands of British Airways workers look set to lose their jobs as its owners IAG announced redundancies on Tuesday afternoon. Airline companies have been struggling to run as the coronavirus lockdown grounds planes around the world. BA had already started struggling after it furloughed more than half of its 45,000 workers. In a statement, IAG said: … Read more
Thousands of British Airways workers look set to lose their jobs as its owners IAG announce redundancies on Tuesday afternoon. Airline companies have been struggling to run as the coronavirus lockdown grounds planes around the world. BA had already started struggling after it furloughed more than half of its 45,000 workers. In a statement, IAG said: … Read more
British Airways Airbus crashes into an Emirates jet as it pulls out from the gate at Dubai airport A six-month-old Airbus A350 crashed into an Emirates jet on a Dubai runway The plane, which had no passengers, was on its way back to Heathrow airport Images from the collision show crumpled metal on the Boeing’s … Read more
British Airways cabin crew boss dies of coronavirus in a hospital bed alongside recovering Boris Johnson Ian Johnson, a cabin service director in his 50s, was in St Thomas’ Hospital ICU He was on a ventilator for ten days before he tragically passed away yesterday Mr Johnson is thought to be the first BA staff member … Read more
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 out of work due to coronavirus is ‘back in the cockpit’ as he 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 praised … 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
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