british airways

Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP Gavin Newlands is bringing forward an emergency bill to the House of Commons which, if passed, will prevent companies from dismissing staff and rehiring them on contracts with worse terms. The Employment (Dismissal and Re-employment) Bill is in response to companies like British Airways who [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]

A group of British airlines have launched a legal challenge against the UK Governments quarantine rules that come into force today. British Airways, Ryanair and Easyjet have sent a joint pre-action protocol letter saying that the rules are “disproportionate and unfair”. From today all passengers arriving into the UK will [read more]

British Airways (BA/BAW) Chief Executive Alex Cruz has called the campaigns by Unite and the GMB Unions against BA’s plan to fire all of its workforce as ‘Bizarre’. He made the statement in a letter to staff in which he said the two biggest unions had refused to attend talks [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]

Pressure is growing on British Airways (BA/BAW) as the BA Betrayal campaign gets support from well known faces across social media. The campaign set up by Unite aims to bring public attention to the planned blanket dismissal of all British Airways staff and the re-employment of some onto new contracts [read more]

As we start to see the easing of restrictions into the new normal we look at which UK airlines have said they plan to start flying again and when. A number of airlines have recently issued updates on their plans and here is what we know so far. British Airways [read more]