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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 ...

British Airways has today unveiled the latest in its lounge developments, re-opening the newly refurbished lounge in Geneva as part of its £6.5 billion investment for customers. The lounge has undergone significant refurbishment and follows a new design concept for the airline which debuted in 2018. The lounge has been carefully curated to give guests a warm welcome and offer ...

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 ...