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Stinky smell forces British Airways jet to have emergency landing! (TheSpoof.com - Spoof News)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:22:45 GMT

Belgrade, Serbia - It started out as an ordinary afternoon British Airway's flight with kids, tourists, and business people on their way for a fun filled visit to London. But, right after takeoff something didn't smell right. In fact, the sme...

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British Airways Discounts (Discount code, coupon, voucher UK)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:47:00 GMT

British Airways ' Sale is now on with savings on flights, hotels, car rental and holidays . For example, St. Lucia holidays for 7 nights from £599 per person (at the time of publication). Book by 15 July 2008 for an extra £20 off long haul flights. No discount voucher code needed.

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British Airways buys French carrier (asap news)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:00:49 GMT

British Airways will purchase the all-business class French airline, L’Avion, and merge it with its new subsidiary carrier, OpenSkies, which was just launched two weeks ago. OpenSkies operates daily service between Paris’s Orly Airport and New York’s JFK, using slots that the carrier acquired from L’Avion. L’Avion flies twice daily between Orly and New York’s [...]

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British Airways and Virgin Atlantic passengers to claim millions (The Telegraph)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:41:58 GMT

Passengers who flew across the Atlantic between August 2004 and March 2006 with British Airways (BA) and Virgin Atlantic are entitled to a refund as part of a £100 million settlement pending in California.

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Overcharged British Airways and Virgin Atlantic passengers to claim compensation (Times Online)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:57:03 GMT

The US courts will tomorrow invite millions of Britons who flew with British Airways and Virgin Atlantic between August 2004 and March 2006 to share more than £70 million.

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European Stocks Fall, Led by Banks, B&B; British Airways Drops - Bloomberg (Www.OSIR.org.in) (www.OSIR.org.in)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:30:13 GMT

July 4 (Bloomberg) — European stocks fell, heading for a fifth weekly decline, on concern banks will post more writedowns and near-record oil prices will curb earnings at airlines. Banco Santander SA led financial firms lower after Goldman Sachs Source: www.bloomberg.com Hilary Benn faces farmer’s anger over aborted badger cull - Daily TelegraphEnvironment Secretary [...]

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British Airways warns of fare rises (The Telegraph)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:18:53 GMT

Slowing consumer demand is making for a "difficult" UK market, British Airways said, as it disclosed that its planes flew 3.8 percentage points less full last month compared with June 2007.

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Cost-hit British Airways flies with quarter of seats empty (Times Online)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:01 GMT

British Airways flights are taking off with almost a quarter of their seats empty after higher air fares and a slowing economy led to 87,000 fewer passengers using the British flag-carrier last month.

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American, British Airways, Iberia circle in on alliance (Market Watch)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:41:00 GMT

AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, British Airways and Spain's Iberia are reportedly closing in on a transatlantic profit-sharing venture that could emerge as the next major restructuring of the struggling airline industry.

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UPDATE 2-British Airways hit by higher fares, UK slowdown (Reuters UK)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:47:07 GMT

LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - British Airways said on Thursday its traffic fell 3.7 percent in June, as a hike to ticket prices and the UK economic slowdown put passengers off travelling on both business and economy flights.

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ID cards: aviation industry a political pawn say airline bosses (Colin Ross News Stories)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:17:00 GMT

Earlier this week the Chief Executives of British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, BMI and easyjet wrote to the Government accusing them of using their industry as a political pawn in the national identity card debate by forcing aviation workers to join the scheme next year.

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Donald’s Advices naomi (StyleCritics)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:42:24 GMT

Property tycoon Donald Trump has urged troubled pal NAOMI CAMPBELL to undergo anger management therapy following her recent air rage conviction. The supermodel was fined and sentenced to 200 hours' community service after assaulting two police officers on board a British Airways flight at London's Heathrow Airport in April (08). It's the latest in a long [...]

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BA heads for trouble as decrease in sales accelerates (asap news)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:00:04 GMT

British Airways has confirmed that its deterioration in sales has continued to accelerate in June, causing further turmoil in the beleaguered airline industry. The carrier announced that the 0.7% drop in traffic for May had deepened to a fall of 3.7% for June, and that its highly-profitable business class segment fell by 3.1%. Worsening [...]

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BA chief says "passengers love T5 now" (Reuters UK)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:08:24 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - It might come as surprise to many of its passengers but British Airways has made an encouraging start to life in its new home at Terminal 5, the airline's chief executive Willie Walsh said on Friday.

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Virgin rips 3 airlines' proposed alliance (Chicago Tribune)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

American nearing pact with potential partners LONDON — An alliance between British Airways PLC, American Airlines and Iberia SA should be blocked, competitor Virgin Atlantic Ltd. said Thursday, amid reports the trio are close to applying for U.S. antitrust immunity to form a trans-Atlantic joint venture.

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Links Fourth of July (naked capitalism)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:51:00 GMT

Acidifying oceans add urgency to CO2 cuts PhysOrg. We've posted about this before, and are encouraged that this issue is getting more attention. Laptop Losses Total 12,000 Per Week at US Airports Dark Reading Cost-hit British Airways flies with quarter of seats empty Times Online Inexperience May Feed the Bubbles Floyd Norris, New York Times Can the NYT Talk About the Economics of Copyright?...

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BA and American in US talks over transatlantic link (Financial Time)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:00:00 GMT

The chief executives of British Airways and American Airlines, Willie Walsh and Gerard Arpey, are due to meet the US transportation secretary later this month to...

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BA blames economy for fall in passenger numbers (Scotsman.com)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

BRITISH Airways last night admitted the consumer environment was "difficult" after a drop in passenger numbers.

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BA and American to hold US talks over link (Financial Time)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:02:00 GMT

The chief executives of British Airways and American Airlines, Willie Walsh and Gerard Arpey, are due to meet the US transportation secretary later this month to prepare the ground for much closer transatlantic co-operation between the two

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Virgin seeks to block BA, American tie-up (Business Times Asiaone)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:00:00 GMT

(LONDON) British Airways Plc's plan to form an alliance with American Airlines and Spain's Iberia would create a 'mega-power' on trans-Atlantic routes and should be blocked, competitor Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd said.

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