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In the latest phase of its £6.5bn investment for customers, British Airways has introduced advanced neural networks, known as artificial intelligence, to its airside operation at Heathrow Terminal 5 to help its people ensure every flight departs safely and on time. Currently, when customers disembark an aircraft, British Airways ground staff manually check and record the detai ...

British Airways and Iberia are announcing their commitment to roll out further NDC only content. The specific commitments are: To continue rolling out Additional Price Points (APP) on both airlines’ longhaul networks in the coming months. Iberia will start with APP on Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Juan from mid-December. British Airways will move the lowest shorthau ...

As part of its ongoing £6.5bn investment for customers, British Airways is trialling autonomous, emissions-free baggage vehicles at its home at Heathrow, to help the airline further improve punctuality and depart every flight on time. British Airways currently operates up to 800 flights a day to and from Heathrow, transporting around 75,000 bags back and forth between its bagg ...

From January 2020, British Airways will become the first UK airline to offset carbon emissions on all its flights within the UK. All customers flying within the UK next year on flights operated by British Airways will have the carbon emissions from their flights offset by the airline and invested in carbon reduction projects around the world. These quality assured projects wil ...

British Airways has announced the launch of flights between London Gatwick and Antalya, Turkey. The summer route, which will operate on an Airbus A320 and run six times a week, commences on 30 April 2020 and is available to book from today. The Antalya announcement comes as the airline adjusts its Gatwick schedule for Summer 2020. Adam Carson, British Airways Managing Directo ...

It’s nearly time for our prestigious top client trip, an annual event where we whisk some of our VIP customers away to a fabulous British Airways destination for a luxury reward experience. This year we’re headed to Toronto on 29 November where we’ll spend two days exploring the best activities that the city has to offer. We’ll be flying in the new Club Suite within Club World ...

British Airways customers are set to gain access to even more benefits when flying between London and Asia thanks to a new codeshare agreement with oneworld partner Malaysia Airlines. The new code will be added to 14 destinations the airline serves in Malaysia, including Langkawi, Penang and Kota Kinabalu, and nine cities in Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, New Zealand and Viet ...

British Airways commenced the first North American longhaul service of its new A350 aircraft from Toronto today, following extensive trials and the launch of its first longhaul service to Dubai last month. The new aircraft features Club Suite, British Airways latest generation business class seat, which offers customers direct-aisle access, doors for greater privacy and luxuri ...

Following the success of British Airways longhaul 'Additional Price Points' currently available on Boston and Dubai routes, the airline is rolling out further direct routes where travel partners can benefit from more competitive fares. The additional price points are available via the Flights system on selected World Traveller and Club World classes. Destinations and routes in ...

British Airways has celebrated its 100,000 aircraft pushback using the airline’s fully electric remote-controlled Mototok devices, which have been used to swiftly manoeuvre the airline’s 140-strong shorthaul fleet out to the runway for take-off for the last two years. British Airways is the first and only airline to use the eco-friendly, emissions-free Mototok tugs, which repl ...