British Airways (BA/BAW) has confirmed that is retiring the Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet with immediate effect. The airline was the world’s largest operator of the type and has operated the Boeing 747-100, -200 and -400 variants. In a communication to staff British Airways said: “With much regret, we are proposing, [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) has reportedly come to a deal with the pilots that will see 300 job permanent job losses and another 300 will be placed in a “talent pool” to be rehired when needed. Tabloid newspaper ‘The Sun’ has reported the deal but the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) has signalled the possible end of its Boeing 747-400 operations as it cancels all further training and recency on the type. The airline is the worlds largest operator of the Boeing 747-400 but with the fleet being modernised with incoming aircraft such as the Airbus A350, Boeing [read more]
The Unite Union, which represents the majority of British Airways Staff are planning a vote of no confidence in British Airways CEO Alex Cruz. The moves comes after he said the Transport Select Commitee’s report on the aviation sector as fuelled by “rumours and emotions” rather than fact and that [read more]
A report by the House of Commons Transport Select Committee has branded British Airways as a ‘national disgrace’ over its plans to fire all 42,000 employees and rehire 30,000 of them under new contracts with lower pay. The report which was published today recognises that the industry has been badly [read more]
According to a letter seen by us, British Airways (BA/BAW) is offering Voluntarily Redundancy to Cabin Crew on older, more expensive contacts. Currently, British Airways has cabin crew on three different contracts Worldwide, Eurofleet and Mixed Fleet. Recent entrants to the company went on to Mixed Fleet which has a [read more]
A statement from British Airways’ (BA/BAW) parent International Airlines Group (IAG) has said that together with Ryanair (FR/RYR) and Easyjet (U2/EZY) the group is seeking a judicial review of the governments controversial 14-day quarantine scheme. Under the scheme, anyone arriving into the UK, that isn’t from an exempted country, is [read more]
The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA), one of the few unions actually engaged in talks with British Airways, has said that those talks are “hanging by a thread” after the airline issued notices of redundancy to all 4,300 pilots. The action by British Airways confirms its plans to “Fire and [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) declined to send a representative to a meeting between to the UK’s Home Secretary and key commercial aviation partners to discuss the Governments plans to quarantine passengers arriving into the UK. BA’s biggest competitor Virgin Atlantic and Low-cost carrier Easyjet were among the representatives to attend the [read more]
In a statement to Parliament about the Aviation Industry, the Transport Minister has hit out at airlines such as British Airways who are misusing the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) to pay staff wages but also threatening them with redundancy. Transport Minister Kelly Tolhurst made the statement on behalf of [read more]
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