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On Sunday evening, British Airways flight 158 from Bermuda to London Heathrow airport was evacuated following an emailed bomb threat. The Boeing 777-200ER, registered G-VIIN, was preparing for a scheduled 8:50 PM departure and was already taxiing towards the runway.
Through May 7, British Airways Executive Club is offering to status match members who reside in the U.S. and Canada. Depending on your status with a U.S. or Canadian airline frequent flyer program, they will match to Silver or Gold status.
This gets you premium check-in and lounge access, plus extra baggage benefits, when flying domestically on American and Alaska as well as more benefits traveling on other oneworld airlines.
To mark 10 years of British Airways service to Austin, BA will be serving barbecue in business class and premium economy out of the Central Texas city in March and giving barbecue sauce bottles from world famous Franklin Barbecue to business class passengers. These bottles will be labeled BA-B-Q.
A British Airways manager has reportedly fled to India following allegations that he orchestrated a $3.8 million immigration fraud, leveraging the airline’s check-in systems to facilitate illegal travel and allowing passengers to claim asylum in Canada when they weren’t eligible to fly there in the first place.
The Italian government stopped a British Airways flight from Milan to London Heathrow from leaving on Monday, because it offered passengers seat cushions with too much padding.
After the country’s aviation authority performed a surprise inspection on the BA flight at Milan’s Linate airport, they discovered that seats near the overwing exists of the Airbus A320neo had the wrong seat cushions. They were too thick.
British Airways announced on social media on Thursday that Laurent-Perrier Grand Siecle champagne will no longer be available in its first class cabins or in its first class Concorde Room lounge at London Heathrow airport. “LPGS” is perhaps the most premium element of the otherwise surprisingly pedestrian British Airways first class experience.
They refuse to show a Jewish sitcom and thinks that this isn’t ‘taking sides in the conflict,’ indeed perhaps the most objectionable thing is British Airways not wanting to take sides against Hamas, terrorism, and the mission to cleanse Jews ‘from the river to the sea’ (and, indeed, beyond).
The last segment of our trip was a flight home from London Heathrow to Austin on British Airways in business class. They use an Airbus A350 on the route, with no first class but with the airline’s Club Suites – essentially a bespoke version of the current American Airlines seat with doors added. It is a very good but not great seat.
This was the flight I already told one story off of: being refused water as a predeparture beverage, with the crewmember snapping that I already had a bottle at my seat.
Days after Virgin Atlantic announced that they’re increasing the price of awards on their U.S. partner for traveling within the U.S. and across the world – except for travel between the U.S. and Europe – British Airways has gone ahead and imposed its own unannounced devaluation for travel on American Airlines and Alaska Airlines.
British Airways retracted their guidance requiring female cabin crew to wear white bras to go with the new sheer blouse included with their uniform after union objections. This follows similar past controversies over uniform-related ‘sexualization’ and contrasts with extreme practices at airlines like Malindo Air and Kuwait Airways, where female applicants were asked to disrobe during interviews.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
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