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The “green machine, Kulula.com, has signed a $646 million deal for eight brand-new Boeing 737-800 airliners. Read More…
T’is the season for cheap tickets as airlines struggle on in these economically fraught times. British Airways, the latest airline to slash ticket prices, is offering return fares from Jo’burg to London for R5602, for travel between 24 – 27 December outbound and back by 31 January. If you have kids, they qualify, apparently, for a 75% discount. Pity it’s mid-winter, but you can’t have everything, now can you?
Is it April 1? No, but I had to check anyway after reading this story. Read More…
It’s not over yet for BA’s long-suffering customers as yet another strike by cabin crew looks set to come rolling down the runway. Read More…
The champagne must be flowing over at British Airways headquarters in London now that the US Department of Transportation has given the green light to British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia to operate a joint business on transatlantic flights. Read More…
Last September, return airfares between Johannesburg and Cape Town on British Airways on just about any day during the World Cup tournament were being quoted at nearly R10 000 – more than the cost of a return flight to London over the same period. Read More…
In what may turn out to be a bit of an own goal, British Airways in-house magazine LHR News apparently published a picture of an iPhone boarding pass belonging to fugitive Al Qaeda boss Osama Bin Laden – whose seat, 7C, puts him up at the comfy end of the aircraft – along with his frequent flyer number. Read More…
The UK High Court has outlawed the imminent strikes planned by BA’s cabin crew union. Read More…
The much-debated third runway at Heathrow has been shelved, and the Air Passenger Duty – a tax loathed by passengers – is to be revised, says the UK press.
The Lib-Concoalition is sure to make more than a few enemies in the aviation industry as it goes ahead with its plans – or doesn’t go ahead with them, in the case of the third runway and Heathrow and the second runways at Gatwick and Stansted. Read More…
Is Eyjafjallajokull, the roaring volcano, Iceland’s revenge on the West for all those dodgy securities they were sold back in the day when American banks were handing out mortgages to just about anyone who could sign on the dotted line (“No fixed address? No problem, sir, just make your mark here …”) Read More…
