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Staff and fuel costs are too high as passengers fly “Anyone But BA”

06.11.09

The ABBA effect and why British Airways is ailing ... more

Steely Neelie’s got it badly wrong on RBS punishment

05.11.09

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Massive hike in air fares as BA charges for seat selection

25.09.09

British Airways passengers will have to pay to choose their seats before they travel in a move that will add Ł160 to a long-haul holiday for a family of four... more

British Airways climbs steeply as Goldman Sachs says get aboard

17.09.09

Stand by for take off at British Airways was the advice Goldman Sachs gave to clients as it added the shares to its influential Conviction Buy list... more

Airline to auction superjumbo tickets for charity

03.08.09

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WORLD: Air France jet dived vertically into the sea without warning

02.07.09

Air France flight 447 plunged nose-first straight into the Atlantic at high speed, accident investigators disclosed... more

Terrorist suspects were on doomed Air France plane

10.06.09

Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on board the Air France flight which crashed and killed 228, it has emerged... more

Air France fits speed sensors after crash

09.06.09

Air France is equipping all its flights using long-haul Airbus jets with new speed sensors after last week's disaster over the Atlantic, it was announced ... more

Air France disaster: 15 more bodies recovered from ocean

08.06.09

Searchers have found 15 more bodies from a crashed Air France jet and retrieved a large amount of debris from the plane that plunged into the Atlantic in the worst air disaster since 2001... more

Debris in Atlantic was not from Air France crash jet

05.06.09

Debris recovered in the Atlantic does not come from the missing Air France flight, it has emerged... more

Debris in Atlantic was not from Air France crash jet

05.06.09

Debris recovered in the Atlantic does not come from the missing Air France flight, it has emerged... more

'Needle in haystack' search starts at Atlantic jet crash zone

04.06.09

The first Brazilian navy ships arrived in the Atlantic Ocean zone where 228 people are believed to have died in the Air France disaster... more

FIRST PICTURE: 11-year-old British jet crash boy

03.06.09

This is the 11-year-old British boy who was on the Air France flight that vanished over the Atlantic Ocean... more

BREAKING NEWS: Air France had bomb threat before disaster

03.06.09

A bomb threat was received by Air France four days before one of its aircraft vanished over the Atlantic, it has been revealed... more

FIRST PICTURE: 11-year-old British boy in jet crash

03.06.09

This is the 11-year-old British boy who was on the Air France flight that vanished over the Atlantic Ocean... more

A mystery with only one clue: a catastrophic electrical failure

02.06.09

Investigators were today struggling to explain the disappearance of the Air France flight as mystery over the causes of the crash continued... more

Searchers find plane wreckage

02.06.09

Plane seats believed to belong to the missing Air France jet were found by investigators scouring the Atlantic... more

11-year-old schoolboy among five Britons on doomed jet

02.06.09

Relatives tell of grief for passengers lost in disaster over Atlantic... more

LATEST: ‘228 killed’ as jet plunges into sea

01.06.09

A passenger jet with 228 people on board crashed into the Atlantic 200 miles from land today after a suspected lightning strike at 35,000 feet... more

France goes on strike amid fears for jobs

29.01.09

A mass one-day walkout by public and private sector employees was expected to paralyse much of France... more

BA returns to fray at City Airport with 11 jets

22.12.08

British Airways takes the dogfight over East London to new levels after announcing the Ł240 million acquisition of 11 new state-of-the-art jets for City Airport... more

Gruelling trip for Britons stranded in Thailand

04.12.08

Two hundred Britons have set off from Bangkok to board the first British Airways rescue flight from Thailand... more

BA in a bid to merge with Qantas as air crisis grows

02.12.08

Aviation: British Airways reveals audacious plans for a merger with the Australian airline Qantas... more

Ryanair gets new Aer Lingus bid off ground

01.12.08

Aviation: Plans for a pan-European Irish airline to take on British Airways, Lufthansa and Air France were unveiled as Ryanair relaunched its takeover bid for Aer Lingus... more

Alitalia in a final push for its rescue

29.09.08

Aviation: Italian national carrier Alitalia has set to work to persuade the two remaining hold-out unions to agree to a government-brokered rescue plan... more

Terrorists seized on plane

26.09.08

German police commandos stormed a passenger jet at Cologne airport and seized two Islamic fanatics they believed were plotting a terrorist outrage... more

London to Paris by rail in two hours

10.09.08

London to Paris train times are to be slashed to under two hours as major airlines look to compete with Eurostar... more

How the credit crunch saved Sarah from herself

31.07.08

As Sarah Skelding's situation demonstrates, the problem of the housing crisis is not the difficulty in getting mortgage finance, but the fact that houses are grossly over-priced... more

Aviation faces brutal choices

30.07.08

Rising fuel bills are transforming airline economics and pushing the industry towards mergers, but the proposed deal between British Airways and Iberia might not be all plain sailing... more