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British Airways is celebrating its centenary year in style with the launch of its own English sparkling wine. Customers will be able to enjoy the bubbles from the award-winning Hattingley Valley from 1 July 2019 and raise a toast to the airline’s milestone birthday. British Airways team of wine experts worked with Hattingley Valley’s talented crew of wine makers to create a 20 ...

Former RAF pilot Frank Dell, 96, can today be found making his way through the hallways of his Bupa care home in Sydney. In his younger years, he was flying high over Germany in World War II, even carrying Royals, before joining British Airways as a commercial pilot. Now, 45 years after his retirement, the airline has worked closely with Bupa to make one of his wishes come tru ...

British Airways has today landed in to Islamabad as it began its first service between the UK and Pakistan in ten years. Crowds greeted the aircraft in Islamabad as both the Union Flag and Pakistan’s national flag were waved from the cockpit roof hatch. British Airways has officially opened an office in Islamabad for the airline’s local dedicated team, which is testament to th ...

To mark British Airways centenary this year, the airline has opened its archive collection to the public for the first time to share never-before-seen memories of key moments from its 100-year history. The British Airways Centenary Archive Collection explores moments from the very first international flight with its predecessor airline, Aircraft Transport and Travel Limited (A ...

Her Majesty The Queen visited British Airways headquarters at Waterside, Heathrow as part of the airline’s centenary celebrations. While at Waterside The Queen was introduced to colleagues in heritage uniforms from across the airline’s history and she visited British Airways museum, The Speedbird Centre, where she was shown artefacts and memorabilia relating to her many histor ...

British Airways is beginning flights between London and Islamabad next week. The final touches are coming together for the airline’s return ahead of the first flight on Sunday 2 June 2019. The three-per-week service is operated on a three-class Boeing 787 Dreamliner with World Traveller (longhaul economy), World Traveller Plus (longhaul premium economy) and Club World (longhau ...

Following an intensive training course, the first 84 British Airways apprentices on the UK’s biggest ever Cabin Crew Apprenticeship Scheme have started flying on the airline’s largest route network in more than a decade, including new routes to Osaka in Japan and Pittsburgh in the USA. British Airways is recruiting 2,000 cabin crew this year who will all be trained at the airl ...

IAG have announced the Distribution Technology Charge (DTC) will increase for companies making bookings via a non-NDC channel on 31 May 2019. The DTC charge will increase from £9.00 to £10.50 per passenger per sector and applies to bookings ticketed on or after 31 May 2019 made directly via a GDS. Lime’s NDC booking portal provides exemption This charge will continue to have ...

To celebrate the choice of additional daily flights between Inverness (INV) and London Heathrow (LHR) British Airways are offering an unmissable opportunity for you to win a pair of World Traveller return tickets to New York. Entering is simple, all you need to do is make a booking with Lime between 1 April and 31 May 2019 on British Airways flights to/from INV-LHR and log your ...

At the start of Mental Health Week, British Airways has signed the Time to Change employer pledge, with mental health ambassador Gok Wan praising the airline for joining the conversation about the crucial need to offer emotional and psychological support in the work place. British Airways has made the commitment to support the mental health and well-being of its 45,000 employe ...