British Airways News

British Airways signaled business is stabilizing, eclipsing news of a worse than expected first half loss and a prediction that revenue would slump by 1 billion pounds this year.

Oneworld alliance partners American Airlines and British Airways remain adamant in their belief that calls for the two carriers to relinquish slots at London Heathrow in order to achieve transatlantic antitrust immunity with fellow alliance partner Iberia are illogical and unnecessary.

When British Airways' chief executive Willie Walsh agreed to work for nothing in July, in a show of solidarity with the 800 workers who BA say volunteered to do the same, it was obvious that the recession was hitting the airline harder than it would care to admit.

British Airways and Royal Bank of Scotland both advanced strongly on Friday, helping the broader market to mild gains, as investors reacted positively to the latest updates from the airline and the bank.

BRITISH Airways chief Willie Walsh is confident the proposed tie-ups with Spanish carrier Iberia and American Airlines will go ahead.

British Airways fell to a worse than expected first-half loss and forecast annual revenue would be G1 billion lower than last year, but said traffic volumes and yields had stabilized.

British Airways PLC on Friday reported a net loss of 208 million pounds in the six months ending in September as the global economic downturn continued to take its toll on revenues.

British Airways has reported a loss before tax of 292m for the six months to the end of September, as the recession continues to hit airlines.

Despite the risk of re-poking a hornets nest, I am going to return to British Airways again this week which I think is becoming one of the most interesting industry stories of the year.

If Willie Walsh, the chief executive of British Airways, had ever doubted the passion of the people who fly in his planes he only has to go on to the Telegraph website and see the response to my request for opinions on what BA needs to do to recover from its terrible 401m loss in the past financial year.

The threat of massive disruption to British Airways flights in the week before Christmas came a step closer today.

By William Lyons Business Correspondent WILLIE Walsh, the chief executive of British Airways, is expected to reveal that the troubled flagship carrier is heading for its second consecutive year of losses when he updates the market this week.

As the clocks go back and the airlines begin their new seasonal schedules, Simon Calder reveals where's hot and where's not EPA Winter? Already? Yes, from the point of view of the world's airlines, which recognise only two seasons: summer ends tomorrow, when the clocks go back, and the winter schedules will take effect until the clocks move forward ...

Next week another chief executive with industrial disputes on his mind will be announcing interim results.

Shortly before noon yesterday, the "ABBA Principle" kicked in. Until the present bitter dispute between BA management and cabin crew is resolved, "Anybody But British Airways" will be the refrain of passengers who cannot afford to risk disruption.

British Airways staff fighting planned cuts in cabin crew are to vote on strike action next month in a bad-tempered dispute that threatens to paralyse the heavily loss-making airline over the busy Christmas period.

Thousands of British Airways cabin crew are to be balloted for industrial action in a row over new contracts, it has been announced.

A British Airways' B777 passenger jet is welcomed with a traditional water cannon salute during the arrival of an inaugural flight for British Airways at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Sunday, Oct.

Getting to London: A showgirl appears in the engine cowling of a British Airways aircraft as part of a campaign to promote the airline's new Las Vegas flight.

An emergency meeting of British Airways cabin crew has been called to decide whether to fight plans to cut jobs, freeze pay and introduce worse wages and conditions for new staff, it was revealed.