Imagine you are 73-years-old who lives in South Africa and you want to visit your daughter in London. Now imagine you have a life-long fear of flying! That’s exactly the scenario faced by 73-year-old Ronnie Leach. After 72 years, Mr. Leach feared he would never conquer his fear of flying and [read more]
Former British Airways Pilot Cat Burton talks about her career in aviation and how diversity in aviation, in particular towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT), helped her fly as the person she really is. I just retired from my 45-year career as a British Airways pilot, having joined Cardiff [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) cabin crew have called a new 48hr strike after rejecting a fresh pay offer from BA Bosses. The offer which was made to the mixed fleet crew included a 6p per hour rise on flight pay that could be back dated to March 2016 however in an [read more]
The conciliation service ACAS has said both parties have accepted its invitation to negotiate a settlement in the row between British Airways (BA) and its mixed fleet cabin crew. It is understood the talks will begin on Monday however one BA cabin crew member we spoke to said “They say [read more]
A series of airline and airport strikes across the UK could cause misery for travellers wanting to get away this christmas. British Airways Cabin Crew are set to walk out for 48 hours on Christmas Day and Boxing Day in action called by the Unite union. In a second swipe [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) is to cut 66 jobs at its engineering facility at Cardiff Airport. The facility, known as British Airways Maintenance Cardiff (BAMC) was opened in 1993 and employs over 700 skilled people. It carries out maintenance on British Airways fleet of Boeing 767, 747, 777 and 787 aircraft. [read more]
British Airways (BA) has unveiled the aircraft that will fly Team GB back from the 2016 Olympics in Rio, and its got a golden nose! The Boeing 747-400 G-CIVA, which is maintained at British Airways Maintenance Cardiff (BAMC), was unveiled by BA yesterday and bears the name “victoRIOus” following a [read more]
British Airways Maintenance Cardiff (BAMC) has successfully completed the first “B” check of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The long haul maintenance facility at Cardiff Airport maintains British Airway’s (BA) long haul fleet including Boeing 747, Boeing 777, Boeing 767 and now Boeing 787 aircraft. The first 787 Dreamliner (G-ZBJA) arrived [read more]
The fire damaged British Airways 777 is coming home to Cardiff Airport this morning after leaving Victorville in the US late last night (local time). Operating as flight BA2276 to Gatwick on the 8th September 2015 it suffered what the pilot described as a “catastrophic engine failure”. The take-off was [read more]
In what must clearly be a candidate for the shortest 747 flight in history an Ex British Airways Boeing 747-400 took off from Cardiff Airport and landed at MOD St Athan. A total distance of 3.67miles as the crow flies. The ex BA bird reached the dizzying height of just [read more]
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