An employee for Virgin Atlantic has stepped down after reports said she was leaking celebrities’ flight information. Media said at the weekend that Sir Richard Branson’s carrier has launched an urgent internal investigation after the woman resigned from the carrier after she had been accused of giving famous’ fliers information to individuals from Big Picture, [...]

Airline passengers flying into the UK over the Easter weekend are being warned that they could face long delays making their way through immigration. The problem is being caused by a shortage in the number of immigration officers. The Home Secretary has been warned by airlines that airports such as Heathrow could well become gridlocked. [...]

Following a decision to allow International Airlines Group to purchase ailing bmi from Lufthansa, British Airways is to use some of the 42 Heathrow landing and take-off slots gained in the deal to expand its presence in Asia. The European Commission gave the green light to the takeover on Friday. The deal was finalised after [...]

International Airlines Group has expressed an interest in investing in Asian carrier Japan Airlines when it relists later this year on the Tokyo stock exchange. The airline was forced to de-list in 2010 after filing for bankruptcy protection. However, an initial public offering is expected to raise as much as ¥1 trillion. IAG chief executive [...]

Top UK carriers have joined forces to ask officials to prevent “travel chaos” at London airports during the Olympics. The four biggest airlines in the United Kingdom – Virgin Atlantic, BMI, easyJet and British Airways – said in a letter issued to the government on Saturday that if extra steps are not taken to counteract [...]

Transport Secretary Justine Greening is expected to publish a white-paper on aviation in the UK in the days following the Budget. However, many in the airline industry are expecting the Coalition’s document to be no more than yet another call for evidence. Although there is mounting support from airlines and industry bosses for a third [...]

BMI owner Lufthansa has promised British Airways that Virgin Atlantic’s gripes won’t tarnish the sale of BMI to the UK flag carrier. The pledge came this week via the Deutsche Lufthansa AG (LHA) chief executive Christoph Franz, who said that he expects that the sale of loss-making BMI to BA’s parent firm, IAG, would clear [...]

A number of the country’s leading airlines have come together to ask the government to scrap its plans to hike Air Passenger Duty in April as a way of preserving jobs and aiding economic recovery. The tax is due to go up by eight per cent at the beginning of next month. The chief executives [...]

Virgin entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is calling on the European Commission to block the sale of BMI to International Airlines Group (IAG). Officials from Virgin Atlantic say the acquisition will give IAG, the parent firm of British Airways and Iberia, monopoly control over precious landing slots at Heathrow airport. Branson said in a statement that [...]

A panel of judges in Nigeria have scrapped hefty fines recently imposed on British Airways in Virgin Atlantic. The country’s Civil Aviation Authority had accused the two carriers of colluding to inflate airfare rates for flights between the UK and Nigeria, noting that the price of flights was higher than those seen between the UK [...]