BA chief signs on for Heathrow duty over holiday weekend
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British Airways chief executive Rod Eddington and other senior management will help out the ground staff at London's Heathrow airport during the upcoming busy holiday weekend, after days of staff shortages and delays, the company said.
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British Airways says it is rewarding ground staff with cheap flights after a chaotic week of cancelled flights.
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ENIOR British Airways executives face the sack after the staff shortage fiasco that crippled the airline&#39;s operations at Heathrow last week and threatens to do the same this bank holiday weekend.
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Airport operator BAA is set to cut jobs with one report saying as many as 2,000 staff will be made redundant.
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Â· Critical six weeks over summer holiday periodÂ· Airports braced for record 20m holidaymakers
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Brian Barwick last night accepted the chief executive&#39;s position at the Football Association following a final round of interviews earlier in the day.
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LONDON -- The head of British Airways and top managers helped with passenger check-in Saturday as the airline sought recover from a week of chaos that stranded thousands of passengers.
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British Airways said Friday it has stopped taking bookings for the three-day weekend at the end of August because of a threatened strike over pay by check-in staff and baggage handlers.
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Meetings are due in an effort to avert weekend strikes planned at Heathrow and Gatwick Airports.
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Britain&#39;s biggest airport operator BAA posted a 16 percent jump in first-half earnings on Tuesday, meeting expectations as cheap airfares and stronger economies drove up passenger numbers.
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Rod Eddington, the chief executive of British Airways, and 11 of his fellow directors will be working at Heathrow airport over the Bank Holiday weekend as part of a desperate
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More than 10,000 British Airways staff will be balloted by their unions this week over a last-ditch pay deal that has lifted the threat of bank holiday travel chaos at Heathrow.
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BA chief executive Rod Eddington and 11 other directors are visiting Heathrow this weekend to boost morale at the crisis-hit airline.
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London - A 48-hour strike by aircraft refuellers at London Heathrow airport got under way on Friday, with baggage handlers at Gatwick airport also preparing to walk out, threatening a weekend of travel disruptions.
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Washington, DC - The head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today encouraged air travelers to become partners over the holiday season in ensuring security and minimizing passenger wait-times at screening checkpoints.
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British Airways Plc, Europe&#39;s second- largest airline, said a flight from Berlin to London Heathrow airport was diverted to Amsterdam and landed safely following a bomb threat.
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British Airways&#39; (BA) chief executive Rod Eddington has admitted that the company &quot;got it wrong&quot; after staff shortages led to three days of travel chaos for passengers.