British Airways cabin crew are being offered the chance to bring to an end their fight with the airline as a new poll is sent out this week. Last year saw 22 days of industrial action which cost the airline around £150 million. This year has seen the threat of further strikes hanging over BA [...]

Passengers who have booked summer holiday flights with the nation’s flag-carrier, British Airways, may no longer have to worry about strike disruption as the airline and the union representing its cabin crew have reportedly thrashed out a deal. For the past 18 months, the threat of industrial action has tarnished BA’s reputation, resulted in 22 [...]

International Airlines Group, the company formed by the merger of British Airways and Iberia, has reported rising revenues and narrowing losses in its first set of results. The firm announced first-quarter losses of €47 million, which is down from the €273 million loss reported for the same period a year earlier. Although fuel costs have [...]

An employment tribunal has been hearing how a British Airways worker allegedly posted threats and abuse on YouTube aimed at strike-breakers. Bryan Benning reportedly threatened to poison a pilot’s food and told other strike-breakers that he was in possession of their details. BA officials claim they managed to trace Mr Benning and intercept him before [...]

British Airways and the union representing the airline’s cabin crew are set to make a fresh start in their peace negotiations before the closure of the latest ballot on strike action. Unite’s new general secretary, Len McCluskey, and BA’s new chief executive, Keith Williams, are both said to be keen to find a resolution over [...]

The union representing British Airways’ cabin crew has announced the dates of a fresh strike ballot. It will begin on 1 March and will end on 28 March. A decision on whether further industrial action is to take place will be announced shortly afterwards. The latest ballot is the fourth to be held by Unite [...]

British Airways has announced that following December’s increase in the price of its fuel surcharge, it will be introducing another. As of 8 February, all passengers travelling long-haul will have to pay at least an extra £12 for each journey sector. This means a return trip to a long-haul destination will be at least £24 [...]

British travellers trying to get out of Egypt, as civil unrest engulfs the country, are finding it difficult as airline services are disrupted and some airport staff left their posts to join with the demonstrators. Many have been forced to find somewhere to spend the night in terminal buildings as a night-time curfew imposed on [...]

British Airways passengers could face more disruption in the New Year as Unite announces the dates of its latest strike ballot. The airline’s cabin crew has been asked by its union to consider five remaining issues in the log-running dispute and have been given between 21 December and 21 January in which to do so. [...]

The threat of strike action next month by British Airways’ cabin crew seems not to have fazed the airline’s chief executive Willie Walsh as he sealed the deal for a merger with Spanish carrier Iberia. Mr Walsh said BA had in place adequate contingency plans for any industrial action and that these plans would minimise [...]