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☆ British Airways is spending $9 billion to help make it the world's favorite airline once again after years of slumping popularity
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Pete Syme | Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewBritish Airways unveiled a host of new initiatives at a media event in London on Monday, as part of a $9 billion "transformation." The UK flag carrier was named the world's best airline by Skytrax in 2006, but its reputation has since faltered. With a new seat design, new routes, and upgrades to the Airbus A380, here's how BA is changing. British Airways is rolling out the new seat design to its Airbus A320neo and A321neo jets, used on its short-haul flights. The business-class configuration on BA's new short-haul seats.

Persons: —, Sean Doyle, Pete Syme, it's, There's, that's, Neil Chernoff, Francisco —, Chernoff Organizations: Service, British Airways, Skytrax, Business, Airbus, Delta Air Lines, Boeing, Washington Dulles, Dubai Airport, Beta Locations: London, Dallas , Los Angeles, Miami, Dubai, Johannesburg, South Africa, Boston, Washington, Singapore, London Heathrow, Malaysian, Kuala Lumpur, London Gatwick, Bangkok

☆ Some British Airways passengers could go hungry as it will stop loading flights with enough food for all flyers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

British Airlines will stop loading flights with meals for all passengers to reduce food waste. Last month the airline brought back free tea and coffee for passengers on short-haul flights. British Airways is trialing a new catering system where it won't load enough food for all passengers on a flight in a bid to tackle food waste. This included scrapping free beverages for passengers on its short-haul economy flights, the Sunday Times reported. Last month it started giving passengers free tea and coffee again on its short-haul routes.

Persons: Willie Walsh, Walsh, Alex Cruz, Sean Doyle Organizations: British Airlines, Morning, British Airways, KFC, Passengers, Former British Airways, Financial Times, Sunday Times Locations: London, Caribbean, Iberia

OAKLAND, California, May 4 (Reuters) - Impact Nano, a Massachusetts-based startup that makes specialty chemicals for the semiconductor industry and others, said on Thursday it raised $32 million in funding from investors including Intel Capital and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. And they are made in regions of political instability," said Matthew Stephens, CEO and co-founder of Impact Nano. Stephens said Impact Nano is inventing new ways to produce chemicals that chip makers use. Stephens also said Impact Nano is looking to apply for some of the CHIPS Act funding that will support the suppliers for semiconductor manufacturing. Goldman Sachs Asset Management is part of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) and Intel Capital is the investment arm of U.S. chip giant Intel Corp (INTC.O).

☆ American and British Airways just opened brand new joint luxury lounges at New York's biggest airport as they grow their partnership — see inside
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

But, to better streamline their operation, British Airways has moved into Terminal 8, and the pair are now officially "roommates," as American CEO Robert Isom put it at a press conference in November. (L-R): Iberia CEO Javier Sánchez-Prieto, British Airways CEO Sean Doyle, American Airlines CEO Robert Isom, Port Authority Executive Director Richard Cotton, Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY), and Queen Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. cut the ribbon to the new Terminal 8 at JFK on Tuesday, November 29. Taylor Rains/Insider

☆ Boeing's last 747 is rolling out of the factory after a more than 50-year production run
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

EVERETT, Wash. − Boeing 's final 747 is set to roll out of the company's cavernous factory north of Seattle as airlines' push for more fuel-efficient planes ends the more than half-century production run of the jumbo jet. "It's a very surreal time, obviously," said Kim Smith, vice president and general manager of Boeing's 747 and 767s programs out of the assembly plant here. "For the first time in well over 50 years we will not have a 747 in this facility." The lone 747, covered in a green protective coating, sits inside the company's massive assembly plant in Everett — the largest building in the world by volume, according to Boeing. The end of 747 production doesn't mean the planes will disappear entirely from the skies, since the new ones could fly for decades.

☆ O companie aeriană va proba în premieră testul COVID-19 cu rezultate în 25 de secunde
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-13 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Compania aeriană britanică British Airways (BA) va proba pentru prima oară în lume un test antigen pentru COVID-19 cu rezultate în 25 de secunde, ca parte a unei analize pentru a facilita zborurile internaţionale, informează joi compania într-un comunicat citat de EFE și agerpres.ro. În comunicat, British Airways arată că testul de salivă "Pelican COVID-19 Ultra Rapid", dezvoltat de compania canadiană de tehnologie medicală Canary Global, "poate detecta cazuri simptomatice şi asimptomatice cu SARS-CoV-2, inclusiv variantele". Testul pilot se va face pe echipajul unui avion al companiei, ale cărui rezultate vor fi comparate cu cele obţinute prin intermediul altui test de diagnosticare, pentru a-i verifica fiabilitatea. Dacă rezultatele experimentului sunt pozitive, BA speră să poată utiliza acest tip de test rapid pe unele rute care acceptă aceste "standarde de senzitivitate". Marea Britanie va relua de luni 17 mai zborurile internaţionale - interzise din ianuarie - deşi deocamdată există ceva mai mult de zece ţări exceptate de la carantină, în timp ce majoritatea pretind perioade de izolare şi teste PCR pentru COVID-19.

Persons: Sean Doyle, clienţii Organizations: British Airways, canadiană, Uniunii Europene, Canary Global

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