Articles tagged “british airways”

The use of seat-back entertainment units and no Wi-Fi is a bit of a throwback, but it's good to have a hospitality expert designing the experience for a change.

It's not a bad idea for press to get all these people together and not a bad idea either to let the work uninterrupted for 11 hours.

A British Airways Airbus had to make an emergency landing at Heathrow, and the disruption spiraled, forcing nearly 200 flight cancellations. UK travelers on bank holiday saw their plans in jeopardy.

Airlines are the among the first to be financially impacted when news of an outbreak starts to spread, but they’re also on the front lines of global travel and responsible for monitoring potentially ill passengers.

British Airways' leadership doesn't seem to know exactly where it wants to go or how it intends to get there, but it's certainly happy to forge ahead in the hopes it'll figure it out along the way.

Cutting the losses incurred by one Spanish carrier by buying another would appear to be a flawed strategy, but Barcelona-based Vueling has remained profitable throughout the economic downturn.

Just one carrier can make a significant impact on struggling tourism economies and this case highlights how reliant destinations are on attracting and keeping global routes.

Political trend? Passengers prefer sitting on the right side of the aircraft. But, only by a small margin.

Walsh has been spending time with heads of the Middle East’s thriving airlines and he's leaning toward their strategy of investments over alliances. His musings are theoretical now with EU regulations limiting action.