British Airways has announced in Britain that it will cancel an additional 650 scheduled flights this July alone. Since the start of the pandemic, around 30,000 UK airport workers have either been made redundant or resigned, and if you add those absent on sick leave, the images of thousands of lost bags, long delays and […]
Tag: British Airways
British Airways has announced it will cancel hundreds of flights this summer
British Airways announced today that it will cancel hundreds of flights this summer as it already struggles to keep up with rising demand and staff shortages. “As the aviation sector as a whole faces the most difficult period in its history, it has unfortunately become necessary to further reduce” the number of flights, the company […]
A strike at Heathrow was decided by a British Airways workers’ union
Unions representing some British Airways workers at London’s Heathrow Airport have said they will go on strike after a vote on a pay gap with employers, a development that poses a risk of chaos for British travelers. the Bloomberg agency. GMB and Unite have announced that hundreds of BA check-in workers will go on strike […]
International Consolidated Airlines: Operating losses shrank in the first quarter
International Consolidated Airlines Group announced that it expects profitable operating results from the second quarter onwards, and will remain so for the whole year, after announcing a reduction in operating losses for the first quarter. The group of airlines, which includes British Airways and Iberia, among others, said that demand is recovering strongly and in […]
Britain: Problems for airlines continue due to the pandemic
Problems with British airlines continue today, threatening the festive season of Easter. According to Bloomberg, officials warned of queues later in the week. Both EasyJet and British Airways had more cancellations today, although airlines said the flights had been canceled in advance. According to FlightAware, British Airways canceled 7% of flights today and delayed 9%. […]
The block on flights from South Africa ‘lands’ the shares of the airlines
Airline stocks hit a record high on Friday, falling the most since the pandemic began as European countries banned flights from South Africa to slow the spread of a new worrying mutation found on the continent. The United Kingdom has already announced that it will suspend flights from South Africa and many of its neighbors […]
IAG loses 6.9 billion in 2020 due to the pandemic
IAG, the group that owns airlines such as Iberia, British Airways or Vueling, lost a total of 6,923 million in 2020 Euros due to the collapse of air traffic as a result of the pandemic. In 2019, it had obtained a profit of 1,715 million euros, according to the group this Friday. The various restrictions […]
Iberia closes the purchase of Air Europa for 500 million
Iberia has finally signed the purchase of Air Europa more than a year after the announcement of the operation. It will finally be for 500 million euros, and not for the 1,000 initially agreed, according to Europa Press, which indicates that the operation will close today. Iberia, which belongs to the IAG group (which also […]
Spain also suspends its flights and the United Kingdom is isolated due to the new strain of coronavirus
At the end of last January, when the coronavirus was spreading across China but had not yet reached Europe, British Airways decided to suspend all its flights with the Asian country. It was the first airline to take this measure, which was to last until March. By then the virus had already roamed Europe, and […]
Ban on flights to the United Kingdom: third blow to the air sector in the middle of Christmas campaign
The decision of several countries to ban flights to the United Kingdom supposes the third great blow to the tourism sector, with the airlines, again, in the front line. The coup comes in the middle of the Christmas season, which is usually the busiest time after the summer, and with the airlines already in a […]