Virgin cabin crew ditch strikes
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Virgin Atlantic cabin crew have called off planned strikes after reaching a deal on pay, the airline says.
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Branson, chairman of Virgin Atlantic, disembarked from the inaugural flight from London, balancing on the aircraftâs wing carrying a surfboard and flanked by models in bikinis.
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Workers who refuel aircraft at Heathrow Airport have begun a 48-hour hour strike after rejecting a new pay offer, raising the threat of disruption to flights.
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A plane flying from Hong Kong to London&#39;s Heathrow airport has been diverted to Stansted following a security alert. The Virgin airlines plane landed safely at about 5.30am, following a reported bomb threat in a telephone call, officials at Stansted said.
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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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British Airways says passenger traffic in January was hit by the aborted strike threat by cabin crew.
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Virgin Group boss Richard Branson said on Friday he would aim to avoid buying fuel-thirsty four-engined airplanes in future for both economic and environmental reasons.
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Business & money: Sir Richard Branson's Virgin group left as frontrunner against in-house management team
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CABLE TV customers threatened to quit the Virgin service yesterday after a number of Sky channels were switched off in a dispute between the companies.   The blackout  which happened in the middle of a programme  came after a midnight deadline to resolve the row passed without an agreement.
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British Airways PLC and unions signed a pay deal for more than 10,000 ground staff early Saturday, averting a planned 24-hour strike next weekend which would have created travel chaos at British airports.
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Pack away those power cells Virgin Atlantic has become the third airline to restrict the use of Apple and Dell laptop batteries on its flights. Passengers who want to take their Inspirons, Lattitudes, iBooks, PowerBooks, MacBooks or MacBook Pros onto the carrier's planes are asked to remove the battery first.â¦
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Employees at Aer Lingus have until 5pm this afternoon to accept a voluntary redundancy package aimed at slashing the airline&#39;s staff numbers by a third.
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Rod Eddington, the head of British Airways, and his boardroom colleagues will work alongside terminal employees at Heathrow this weekend as the airline pulls out all the stops to cope with a chronic shortage of ground staff.
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Airline Virgin Atlantic is to make travellers remove batteries from all Dell and Apple laptops.
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LONDON  - British Airways and union leaders said Saturday they had agreed a three year pay deal for check-in staff and baggage handlers and that strike action had been suspended.
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Sir Richard Branson has told Virgin Atlantic staff to quit the airline if they want more money, as cabin crew prepare to strike next month
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A planned strike by British Airways staff that threatened to disrupt the travel plans of half a million people was halted yesterday after management and workers reached an agreement.