Senior British Airways cabin crew are facing a staggering 55 per cent pay cut with salaries slashed to £24,000 in yet another blow to the airline industry. Airline bosses wrote to employees outlining the new salaries after sacking 12,000 staff and ripping up contracts, The Sun reported. One employee slammed the cost-cutting measure and said: … Read more
Almost 50,000 British Airways customers are still owed refunds despite the airline suspending most flights in March, it was revealed today. Willie Walsh, boss of its Spanish parent company, has also revealed that 921,000 tickets for 2.1million flights were refunded in cash – but 346,000 customers accepted a credit voucher for a future flight. But there are … Read more
From claiming refunds for Airbnb and British Airways bookings to quarantine rules when travelling to Europe: The Holiday Guru solves travel queries By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 16:54 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 16:56 BST, 14 May 2020 The Holiday Guru is always on call to answer your questions. This week, the issues tackled … 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
The differences in price between British Airways’ classes are big – leaping up in hundreds then thousands of pounds – but what exactly does each fare jump get you? Four travel experts decided to find out and reviewed all four classes on a single BA Boeing 777 flight between London Heathrow and Abu Dhabi in … Read more
British Airways has asked all staff to sign new ‘zero hour’ contracts that would allow the airline to lay them off without negotiations, it has been reported. The beleaguered carrier has already announced plans to send up to 12,000 workers ‘to the dole’ owing to the coronavirus crisis, and warned it may end operations at … Read more
British Airways has asked all staff to sign new ‘zero hour’ contracts that would allow the airline to lay them off without negotiations, it has been reported. The beleaguered carrier has already announced plans to send 12,000 workers ‘to the dole’ owing to the coronavirus crisis, and warned it may end operations at Gatwick, London … Read more
Can I postpone my flights to Kenya due to the coronavirus? And what about a refund on travel insurance? The Holiday Guru solves traveller queries By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 10:47 BST, 2 May 2020 | Updated: 11:30 BST, 2 May 2020 The Holiday Guru is always on call to answer your questions. This week … Read more
British Airways owner IAG secures £900m loan from Spanish government – but it can’t be used to help stricken UK airline which is cutting 12,000 jobs amid coronavirus crisis International Airlines Group has received a £900m loan from the Spanish govt IAG is the parent company of British Airways which is loosing 12,000 jobs The … Read more
FTSE 100 opens down 2.2% by 144 to 5757 points as data shows slump in UK housing market – after government put brakes on lockdown easing and Trump threatened $1trillion tariffs on China The FTSE 100 of Britain’s biggest firms opened down by 144 or 2.2 per cent Newly released figures show house prices were … Read more