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British Airways has today announced it is refreshing its First and Club lounges at Chicago O’Hare Airport, as well as revealing more details on its lounge improvements at Edinburgh and Berlin, all part of the airline’s £6.5bn investment plan for customers. Due to be completed in Spring 2020, customers travelling through Chicago in the First or Club lounges will receive a perso ...

From 1 January 2020, British Airways will begin offsetting carbon emissions on all its flights within the UK, as part of the airline's commitment to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Customers flying within the UK on flights operated by British Airways will have the carbon emissions from their flights offset by the airline and invested in the highest quality, verifi ...

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In the latest stage of British Airways investment in airport automation, the airline has announced that from 2020 it will trial AI-powered autonomous robots at its home at Heathrow Terminal 5 to help some of the 90,000 customers who travel through the terminal each day navigate through the airport, freeing up the airlines’ award-winning airport hosts to help customers with more ...

Flights to the Basque region of Spain are set to take off next summer when British Airways launches a new route to San Sebastián. It’s the first time flights to the resort town in the Bay of Biscay will operate from London City Airport with British Airways twice-weekly service through the peak summer months from July to September. The airline will serve five Spanish destinatio ...

British Airways will soon become the first airline to offer a year round direct flight from the UK to Portland, Oregon. From 1 June 2020, the airline will launch a five-per-week service to the city from Heathrow Terminal 5. The new route will take the number of US destinations the airline flies to from London up to 27, and the number of daily flights offered by British Airways ...

British Airways has signed a joint business agreement with China Southern Airlines, for travel from 2 January 2020. Seats are available for sale from today. The agreement will benefit customers of both airlines by opening more destinations between the UK and China, with a greater choice of flights and enhanced frequent flyer benefits. It will allow the airlines to cooperate on ...

British Airways is warming up for the great Christmas getaway, with more than one million customers flying with the airline over the festive period. The most popular longhaul destinations are New York, Los Angeles, Johannesburg and Cape Town and this year’s busiest shorthaul route is Paris, with many travellers opting to celebrate Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve in the French ...

British Airways has made a multi-million pound investment in its catering on flights from London Gatwick, with reimagined and improved food across its short and longhaul cabins. Now available on all flights, the catering brings in new menus featuring new dishes and recipes as part of the airline’s £6.5bn investment for customers. The new food has a focus on provenance with the ...

British Airways has been named Airline of the Year at one of the aviation industry’s most prestigious award ceremonies. CAPA’s annual Global Aviation Awards for Excellence was held in Malta on 5 December 2019. CAPA - Centre for Aviation is one of the world’s most trusted sources of market intelligence for the aviation and travel industry. Judges awarded British Airways the h ...