Articles tagged ‘British Airways’
London travel disruption
By Chris | March 28th, 2008 |
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It took years of political wrangling and £4.3 billion to build but when Heathrow Airport’s new Terminal 5 open for business on Thursday it was supposed to be the ultimate passenger experience for British Airways customers. Smooth, efficient, comfortable, with none of the hassles, delays and lost baggage that have plagued BA this last few [...]
Heathrow Terminal 5
By Chris | March 5th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
London’s main airport, Heathrow, gets a brand new terminal at the end of this month when Terminal 5 finally opens. Heathrow has a reputation as being very overcrowded with terminals that are patched up, not user friendly and definitely not designed for the passenger numbers they take.
Terminal 5 will handle all British Airways flights that [...]
Baggage problems at Heathrow’s Terminal 4
By Chris | February 20th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
Not good news if your flying from Terminal 4 at London’s Heathrow Airport today. BAA which runs the airport says Terminal 4 had a major baggage system failure yesterday, 19 February, and British Airways which is the main airline using T4 says on its website that World Traveller (economy), World Traveller Plus (premier economy) and [...]
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Refunds
By Chris | February 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Good news for any one who’s flown with British Airways or Virgin Atlantic in the last few years, you could be getting a little of your money back. Both airlines have just settled a class action case in the US where they admitted price fixing on fuel surcharges on transatlantic flights.
The settlement to the case [...]
British Airways and surfboards don’t go
By Chris | October 26th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Surfing is one of the fastest growing sports for British people, whether heading down to Cornwall and the west of England, the west of Ireland or getting on a plane and setting off for more exotic locations such as Bali, Australia or South Africa. If you’ve really picked up the surfing bug and gone and [...]
London News 09.27
By Chris | September 27th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Circle, Hammersmith & City and District Underground lines suspended over emergency braking system concerns. BBCNews
* Four asylum seekers sneak into the UK in the back of the lorry bringing in Tony Blair’s new bullet-proof BMW. DailyMail
* Millions of rail passengers paying up to 60% more than they should for tickets because call centres and [...]
London News 09.19
By Chris | September 19th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* 80% of crime in London goes unsolved. EveningStandard
* British Airways increasing flights to the US next year. Reuters
* iPhones on sale in Britain from November priced £269 ($543), £70 more than it costs in the US. Telegraph
London News 08.25
By Chris | August 25th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Porsche driver faces jail time after being clocked doing 172mph down the A420 near Oxford.(DailyMail)
* Ryanair to charge passengers £2 to check-in from next month.(Guardian)
* Playboy store to open on Oxford Street in mid-September.(Reuters)
British Airways lost baggage auction
By Chris | August 6th, 2007 | 22 Comments »
Good and bad news in the on going story of lost baggage from British Airways flights at Heathrow. The Evening Standard reports that BA have flown several 747 cargo planes to the US full of lost luggage in an effort to clear the backlog as well as using a fleet of trucks to move bags [...]
Heathrow and British Airways in the news
By Chris | August 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There are a host of bad stories at the moment surrounding both British Airways and Heathrow Airport. BA have just been fined £125million by the Office of Fair Trading after it admitted price fixing of fuel surcharges on long-haul flights, this was also a joint investigation with the US Department of Justice who are going [...]
