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BA Holidays Stops Package Deals in COVID-19 Muckup

2021-01-09 by Argophilia Travel News

British Airways

British Airways Holidays has now canceled trips for the coming weeks after an effort to sell package deals despite the national lockdown. Some clients were apparently taking advantage of business flights to take leisure trips. According to the reports, BA Holidays has already removed deals for sale, and the airline is letting booked customers know […]

Tags: BA Holidays, BBC, British Airways, business travel, COVID flights, flight cancellations, package travel, pandemic travel, UK travelers

British Residents of Spain Banned From Boarding British Airways Flight

2021-01-04 by Argophilia Travel News

BA A 318

British residents of Spain were allegedly denied boarding by British Airways staff at Heathrow on their return home. Passengers claim even negative COVID proof and required documents did not sway flight personnel.

Tags: airline news, airlines, British Airways, British citizens, British fliers, Spain, Spain travelers

British Airways Adds Kos Flights for Summer 2019

2018-09-24 by Delia Gavrilescu

A BA cabin crew member welcomes fliers

British Airways has announced the launch of a new route from London Gatwick to the popular Greek island of Kos for summer 2019, with flights set to begin in May.

Tags: Adam Carson, Athens, British Airways, Kalamata, Kefallonia, kos, Kos flights, Mykonos, Rhodes, Santorini, Skiathos, Thessaloniki, World Traveller, Zakynthos

British Airways enters value Crete flights arena

2014-11-13 by Delia Gavrilescu

A BA cabin crew member welcomes fliers

British Airways has just announced an all new Gatwick to Heraklion route for Summer 2015. What was a destination dominated by Aegean Air, has already seen budget carrier Ryanair encroach with flights to Chania. No it appears Brits will have even more choice where airfares and departures are concerned.

Tags: Aegean Air, British Airways, Crete flights, Heraklion flights

EU Sanctions On Russia Provoke Airline Economics War

2014-08-06 by Phil Butler

Vladimir Putin at State Council Presidium meeting on developing social protection system for senior citizens. - Via The Kremlin

This morning business daily Vedomosti has reported, Russia may begin restricting European airlines from flying over Siberia on Asian routes. The move, if enacted, would imposed crippling costs on some European carriers. To make matters worse, the underlying business infrastructure of all countries will certainly be negatively affected.

Tags: airline costs, airlines, Asia flights, British Airways, EU sanctions, Lufthansa, Russia sanctions, Vladimir Putn

British Airways Tags Forward3D for Global Paid Search

2014-04-22 by Delia Gavrilescu

Forward3D landing page

British Airways has selected Forward3D as their paid search partner after the latter won a marketing pitch.

Tags: airlines, British Airways, Forward3D, paid search, ppc, search

British Airways Flight Lands Safely in Close Call

2013-05-24 by Delia Gavrilescu

BA A 318

London’s Heatrow closed both runways earlier today when a plan in route from Oslo had to make an emergency landing.

Tags: airline emergency, airline mishaps, British Airways, Heathrow, London travel

easyJet + British Airways Secure London to Moscow Flights

2012-10-28 by Mike Wheatley

easyJet and British Airways have just landed the right to operate flights to Russian capital Moscow, at the expense of Virgin Atlantic whose bid to secure what is one of Europe’s most flight routes was rejected.

Tags: BA, bmi, British Airways, EasyJet, London to Moscow, Moscow flights, Virgin Atlantic

British Airways Introduces TripSeeker, Flight Search Tool

2011-04-08 by Tavis J. Hampton

TripSeeker British Airways

British Airways has released the latest version of TripSeeker (formerly WorldExplorer), its new flight search tool.  With it travelers can search for the best flights and destinations all from ba.com. The new tool is completely Flash-based (sorry iPad users), and has an interactive interface allowing you to click anywhere on the world map where BA […]

Tags: activities, air fares, British Airways, destination guide, flight search tool, Google Maps, travel class, TripSeeker, WorldExplorer

US Airways Sabre Deal Calms Travel War Waters

2011-03-01 by Phil Butler

Cartoon travel help Bing

In airline travel news, US Airways just announced the signing of a multi year contract for full content distribution and merchandising with Sabre Travel Network. This latest news, pertinent to the ongoing wars between the various online agents and service providers, is at least a positive sign for global distribution players.

Tags: add ons, Air New Zealand, airline tickets, airline travel, Amadeus, ancillary services, BIng, British Airways, Delta-Northwest, GDS, Google Travel, Greg Webb, Microsoft, online travel, OTA's, Porter Airlines, Qantas, Sabre GDS, Sabre holdings, United Airlines, US Airways, Virgin America, WestJet, world airlines




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