With the record high cost of fuel and slowing demand, the aviation industry continues to face challenges, and consolidation may be the best option to steering steadily through the turbulence. It has come to no surprise that British Airways has announced that they have been talking with Iberia, a Spanish airline, about a merger. The merger would enable the carriers to cut expenses greatly and could even spark a consolidation wave in the airline sector. Both British Airways and Iberia are also still having merger talks about a transatlantic deal with American Airlines.
Willie Walsh, the Chief Executive [...]

With the price increases in airfare across the aviation industry, many passengers have become frustrated. Trying to appeal to their passengers, British Airways has announced a sale on their seats for flights to 27 destinations. According to their announcement, passengers who are booking their tickets well in advance can get a huge discount if they don’t mind going by some restrictions. What is interesting about this offer, is that it is aimed at Americans who are planning a holiday to Europe or the United Kingdom, even though the US dollar is low in valued compared to the British pound and [...]

British Airways and Rolls-Royce have announced that they are starting a program of scientific tests to research the possibility for using an alternative to fuel for the industry of aviation. The studies will aim at identifying alternatives that are practical compared to the kerosene that the industry is using currently, which has potential to reduce the carbon footprints of planes. British Airways and Rolls-Royce will begin a tender process together by inviting suppliers the opportunity to offer alternative samples of fuel to be tested with a Rolls-Royce RB211 engine, which is used in the Boeing 747 of British Airways. The [...]

There are 30 flights that are planned for transfer from Terminal 4 to Terminal 5 at British Airways’ Heathrow Airport. This will be the second move in a series that was started on June 5th, and this new one is scheduled to start on September 17th. This next phase in the series after that will relocate 12 more routes to Terminal 5, which is set to take place at the end of October. There was a joint statement from the British Airport Authority and the Airway that said the aim of the relocations is to avoid the paralysis that occurred [...]

British Airways has slowly started the transition of moving their flights into the brand new Terminal 5 building located at Heathrow Airport. Flights are starting to arrive from destinations in Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States.
BA was hoping to have already completed the transition of moving their long haul operation but massive delays and luggage problems forced them to push back the transition date.
Because of the huge delays a lot of Corporate Executives at BA have been dismissed and intense pressure from investors are ordering that Chief Executive Willie Walsh quit. Willie Walsh did not accept his annual [...]

British Airways is deeply affected by the massive economic downturn and have seen a massive drop of their business class seat sales over the last month. BA announced that during the month of May their traffic numbers for business class dropped 0.9% with economy class falling close behind at 0.6%.
Oil prices are largely blamed for the huge drop in ticket sales as well as the May mayhem in which BA’s launch in Terminal 5 had a brutal beginning with huge delays and lost luggage.
BA has also said that despite the unfortunate decrease in customers they have seen a increase of [...]

There was a warning about the economic pressures on passengers by British Airways, and this pressure may now have an impact significantly on the demand for flights soon. It has been reported that the traffic in May has decreased 0.7% year-on-year Wednesday. British Airways has stated that long-haul economy travel was weak already and that it will only be a matter of time before we start seeing how the regular flyers are going to cope with having an income that is less disposable.
As airlines enjoyed the share price rally of a falling oil price, the downbeat outlook came. It was [...]