Heathrow at its busiest thanks to new markets April 11, 2012 MORE THAN 70m people travelled through Heathrow in the last year, the airport’s busiest ever, according to figures from owner BAA out yesterday. Traffic at Britain’s busiest airport was up six per cent in the year to March, which BAA credited to the soaring popularity of its routes to newer markets such as China. Its [...]
Iberia cancels 150 flights as strikes begin April 9, 2012 PILOT STRIKES at British Airways’ Spanish sister Iberia grounded 150 flights across Europe yesterday, in the first phase of industrial action that could cause travel misery during the peak summer season. Staff walked out yesterday in the first of 30 one-day strikes to protest against the start-up of low-cost carrier Iberia Express, owned by International [...]
OLYMPIC MEDIA BUZZ LONDON 2012 PARTNERS April 9, 2012 IN ASSOCIATION with Repskan.com, City A.M. is measuring the relative Olympic media buzz around the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games partners, week by week. The leaderboard, right, reflects their ranking over the past week, in this case from Wednesday 28 March to Wednesday 4 April. British Airways has had a bumper Olympic news week, [...]
Willie Walsh’s bonus cut after Iberia troubles April 4, 2012 WILLIE Walsh picked up a £1.155m pay package for last year but missed out on £1.35m of bonus payments after International Airlines Group (IAG) failed to hit some performance targets. The group chief executive received a base salary of £825,000 and a £302,000 bonus, according to the annual report of the owner of British Airways [...]
UK’s over-taxed public is running out of patience April 1, 2012 EXORBITANT: that is the only way to describe the cripplingly high levels of Air Passenger Duty (APD) now facing everybody flying from the UK. The era of cheap flights which had done so much to make international travel accessible to the vast majority of the public is coming to a sorry end: the tax on [...]
Honeymooning for one in the Maldives April 1, 2012 GOING on holiday alone is one thing. Going on holiday alone to the world’s foremost couples’ destination is rather another. I wasn’t off to backpack around the villages of the Himalayas or go down and out in Bangkok and Hanoi, bumping into new people and places every five minutes. No: I set off on a [...]
IAG close to winning approval to buy Bmi March 29, 2012 BRITISH Airways owner IAG is set to be given the go-ahead by the EU to buy German group Lufthansa’s British airline Bmi after offering to give up additional airport slots, a person familiar with the matter said yesterday. IAG has reached a deal worth £172.5m to buy its smaller rival and had initially proposed to [...]
Struggling to choose a luxury car? Then ask the dealer for a holiday March 29, 2012 BUYERS of luxury cars are faced with more choice than ever before. To differentiate themselves, the car companies have started offering something extra to entice would-be customers. Most of the big luxury car marques offer driving trips to their customers, giving them the chance to tour a variety of stunning locations in their new car. [...]
BA offers more BMI concessions March 28, 2012 EU regulators are assessing extra concessions offered by British Airways owner IAG to gain approval for its bid to buy Lufthansa’s BMI, after initial proposals fell short, the EU’s antitrust chief said yesterday. IAG wants to buy BMI to boost its share of runway slots at Heathrow. EU competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said IAG submitted [...]
BRITISH AIRWAYS PLANS CITY TO VENICE ROUTE March 27, 2012 BRITISH Airways has added new routes from London City airport, with flights to Venice starting in September and more journeys to Frankfurt beginning this month. The carrier will also put on more flights to and from Glasgow, starting in September. BA will have 14 planes serving City airport once the new routes are introduced.