American Airlines Pilots attack AA-BA proposed deal with bilboards

Allied Pilots Association (American Airlines’ Pilots Association) has been vocal about their opposition to the proposed American Airlines and British Airways alliance. Recently, they have put on billboards around the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Airport to display their opposition.
The application is – “BA and AA have applied to regulators in the United States and Europe [...]

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Qantas Airways and British Airways fined $15.5 million for Price-Fixing

Qantas Airways and British Airways have agreed to pay a combined fine of $15.5 million (equivalent Australian $25 million) to “charges price-fixing charges brought
by Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission“. The price fixing charges were related to fuel surcharges applied to International Cargo shipments from 2002 to early 2006.
Qantas will pay around $12.2 million (Australian $20 [...]

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Good News Everyone: American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia sign commerical agreement

American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia announced today that they have signed “a commercial agreement to cooperate over flights between North America and Europe to help overcome soaring fuel costs”. The tie is also supposed to benefit for the open skies agreement between Europe and US.
Also, as a part of the new agreement all the [...]

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Merger Update: British Airways and Iberia Airlines in merger talks

+ Higher oil prices have driven airlines to different solutions like capacity reduction, merger related synergies, airfare increase, charging for the usual freebies, etc.
British Airways and Spain’s flag carrier Iberia (or Iberia, Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A. ) are deep in merger talks with Iberia “have taken direct/indirect 10% stake in British rival”. [...]

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Brtish Airways buys French all-business carrier Airline L’Avion

British Airways seem to be heading the all-business US – EU(or Europe) route. As a strategic deal that will bolster their OpenSkies subsidiary, it bought the two plane French Airline L’Avion that flies between Pairs (Orly) and New York (Newark) for £54m (or $107.6 million).
Facts about L’Avion -

Founded by – 31 year old French [...]

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Is Heathrow’s third runway the best solution?

British Airways (CEO Willie Wash) and BAA (CEO Colin Matthews) have called for the construction of a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport. This statement came after a business group, London’s First, has called for “drastic action to end the problems of “Heathrow hassle“”. The group has called for scrapping of some flights at peak [...]

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Continental dumps Oneworld to join Star Alliance

Continental Airlines has been in talks with American Airlines and British Airways to join their Oneworld alliance, but instead announced that it will join the Star Alliance (with United Airlines and US Airways).
Continental had to change its alliance from SkyTeam due to Delta and Northwest Merger Announcement.
From Dallas News -
Continental’s
plan to partner with United [...]

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British Airways Launched Open Skies Airlines

British Airways is launching a subsidiary called “Open Skies Airline” that will be a transatlantic luxury-service airline. The airline is taking advantage of the transatlantic “open skies” agreement(or EU-US Open Skies Agreement between European Union and United States.
The first flight starts today, Thursday June 19th 2008 from Paris’ Orly airport to New York’s JFK [...]

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