Archive for the ‘BA’ Category

Choppy Seas

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Yesterday British Airways announced ,"lucrative premium traffic fell further in February, but, due to capacity cuts, proportionately it filled more seats."  Nice try BA.  The press release carried more details, "BA's premium traffic dropped 20.2% on the year, with non-premium traffic off 5.5%. Premium traffic in January fell 13.7% year-on-year. ...

Refueling Customs

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Missed this from last week but BA announced that passengers no its new service from London City Airport to JFK would be able to clear customs on the ground in Ireland as the plane refuels.   The competitive advantage of this route is efficiency and saving the customer time from commuting ...

BA Babies

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

The OTR has an update via Airliners on the status of Openskies.  In sum, they are slowing growth and centralizing business operations in France.  As stated before on this blog, I think Openskies has the right product and product mix.  However, the state of the economy is devastating and things must ...

BA’s Customs Coup

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Way back in February BA announced it would begin flying London City Airport to New York City with 2 A318s.  Speculation arose about how they would stretch the aircraft on the westbound leg and soon it came out that there would be a refueling stop in Ireland.  Would Guests accept ...

BA Microsite: T5 is Working (This Time)

Friday, August 8th, 2008

So British Airways has a neat little micro-website out promoting its new terminal 5. It has a daily update on the average check-in time and a generic story about some customer's success story at T5. I appreciate British Airways understanding what it has to do to sway customers. ...