According to a recent newspaper report, American Airlines, British Airways and Spain's Iberia are just about to finalize an antitrust immunity to give way to a joint venture. Citing the executives of the three airlines, the Financial Times noted that the airlines aim to reach an accord on profit and revenue sharing during this month.

American and BA are intending to argue a case with US regulators since they both feel that the competitive landscape has been changed due to the "open skies" accord. Notably, the open skies agreement came into force between the United States and the European Union in March, permitting airlines to access any US city from any location in the EU and vice versa.

The agreement assures to increase the competition between different carriers besides cutting ticket prices and eventually give way for transatlantic mergers to create the first global airlines. BA and American are also arguing that the recent wave of mergers and new alliances have invariably made many of their biggest transatlantic rivals grow stronger, which have antitrust immunity with their partners across the North Atlantic. This has been told in the paper.

In an interesting move, British Airways marks the American Revolution and the independence of 13 colonies from Britain. On account of this, the flagship carrier of the UK is offering attractively discounted business class tickets for just $1,776 by way of reflecting the exact year of the actual breaking up of the revolution in the price of the tickets.  This discounted rate applies to most of the tickets for flights that depart from the airports of any one of the 13 colonies to the United Kingdom.

It is amazing to note that normally Club World seats cost nearly double this amount when regularly purchased. This means that the revolutionary and unbelievable promotion offered by the BA is one of the most wonderful and lifetime opportunity for those wishing to enjoy the luxuries and comforts of the premium class service for the price of economy class. Over and above, the $1,776 price tag also includes round-trip airfare from a range of US cities to London, with the list including New York-JFK, Atlanta, Washington DC, Boston and Philadelphia. The promotional period comes to an end after the Fourth of July holidays on 6th July. Therefore, to take advantage of this attractive offer, passengers need to act quickly.

There is yet another attractive aspect of the same discount. For instance, those availing this offer and visiting London can also upgrade their hotel room from four to five star accommodations totally free of charge. The offer extends over a good number of establishments in London including Kensington House, the Ritz, Park Lane and Grosvenor House.

In a highly significant move, British Airways is all set to acquire the French business class carrier L'Avion paying a price of £54 million. The national carrier of the UK has planned to employ the French fleet of Boeing 757 jets on the routes operated by Open Skies, the new subsidiary of the airline. Most interestingly, these routes also include the connection between Paris Orly Airport and New York JFK.

Most notably, following the demise of rivals MAXJet, Eos and Silverjet, L'Avion happened to be the last surviving member among the executive carriers. According to an analyst, the interest of British Airlines in this fleet bodes well as the sector is in bad shape threatening to collapse.

Douglas McNeill of Blue Oar Securities said, "OpenSkies really isn't an all-business offering but it does look a bit like one and that impression is strengthened by this move. It represents a vote of confidence in the trans-Atlantic premium market, which is very important to BA. People have been concerned about the strength of demand there."

In a highly interesting move, British Airways has entered into a deal with insurance company Mondial Assistance to provide its customers the company's insurance cover during as the customers go ahead with the online booking process. As per the deal, the airline will offer a 'opt-in' step to insure as the passengers book their tickets via the portal www.ba.com to purchase their tickets online. 

Most notably, BA's bid to give a boost to its ancillary revenue coincides with a time when rocketing fuel prices are pressurizing the industry. The three-year deal will stretch itself across 18 different markets and will be the first in Bulgaria, Romania and Cyprus where services like Mondial's do not exist.

Explaining the unique features of this partnership, BA contracts manager Keith Vipan noted, "Through this partnership, we will be able to enhance the British Airways passenger experience and in addition, open up a new revenue stream revenue for the airline."

In a recent statement, British Airways has totally denied the accusations that the airline is scaling back its operations in Scotland. Earlier, some business groups have claimed that British Airlines is gradually dropping its links between Heathrow and some major Scottish airports for freeing up the slots for accommodating some long-haul services that shall prove to be lucrative then these links.

By way of proving its claim, the British Chamber of Commerce points out to the recent roll back of the "red-eye" 6am flight from Glasgow to the London hub. Most notably, this service had been highly popular among the business travelers as the time schedule proved to be highly convenient for a range of business activities at the capital.

On the other hand, the airline has totally denied the above said accusation and has said that even after the above said service was rolled back for several other important reasons, the airline is still operating not less than 100 flights in the route connecting the Scottish and the London airports every single day. 

Recently, British Airways has announced its decision to axe its earliest morning flight leaving from Glasgow Airport to Heathrow. The move follows the decision of the airline to merge the first two flights of the day departing to Heathrow into one service. The new flight is scheduled to leave at 07:05 instead of 06:00. The revised schedule will come into effect on 27th October when the 07:30 service will be cut. The second flight of the day will depart at 09:05.

The revised schedule has given way to concerns in the wider circles that the Scottish business and leisure travellers can arrive at Heathrow not before 08:30 and are likely to be delayed for a 09:00 meeting at the city centre. However, according to BA, the changes made in the schedule are part of its general review of services and assures that disruption for the passengers will be bare minimum.

The airline has decided to fly a larger 188-seater A321 aircraft as the first flight to London by way of making up some of the lost capacity. Over and above, BA will continue to offer four services to London City and five services to Gatwick. Notably, the earliest Gatwick flight departs at 06:15 and the earliest to London City departs at 07:00.

British Airways, the flag carrier of United Kingdom, has introduced an increase in the fuel surcharge imposed on travellers who fly on its premium class seats.

With the new tiered system for calculating charges, those travelling in the carrier's First Class, World Traveller Plus and Club World will be paying up to £24 more than people travelling in economy class. This is not a surprising move as almost all the airlines of the world are increasing fuel surcharge due to increased costs of fuel and it is also expected that further increase is also possible due to the fact that oil prices are expected to grow further in future.

The new system, which mirrors one newly introduced by Virgin Atlantic, marks the third time as many months that the carrier has increased its fuel surcharges in an attempt to deal with the all-time high fuel costs.

OpenSkies, the new business-class subsidiary of the UK's flag carrier British Airways, is to start operating its services from today, the 19th of June. This could prove to be a path-breaking inauguration for the aviation industry as it will open a lot of new ventures across the countries.

The carrier's inaugural flight will take place on the route from Paris Orly to New York, and according to an airline spokesperson bookings for the connection are going well and are beyond expectations.

The airline has been offering promotional ticket prices on its flights to US travellers, with premium economy seats available at just $750 one way. Taxes are not included in the offer price.

British Airways, UK's flag carrier, is close to reaching an agreement with aircraft maker Boeing to acquire up to twelve 777-300ER flying machines to offer bridging capacity after the major delivery delay to the Dreamliner's 787 it has placed an order for, reports Flight International. This is great news for passengers of BA, as they would be able to enjoy new aircrafts for many of their flights.

The carrier, which has placed an order for a total of twenty-four 787-8/9 aircrafts, was set to start taking delivery of the Rolls-Royce Trent-powered twinjets in the year 2010.

The British carrier refused to give details about when it now expects to start taking delivery of its 787 flying machines; though according to the reports by the magazine the aircraft manufacturer says that the average delay to the first delivery for its 787 clients is twenty months.

British Airways, UK's flag carrier, is planning to place an order for wide-body planes this year, although it is facing record high levels of fuel prices and lower passenger demand. This is a contrasting situation for other airlines that are downing many flights due to losses that they have to face in the wake of steep fuel price rise around the whole world.

An analyst at JP Morgan, Chris Avery, said: The delivery dates will be so far out that a recession won't matter".

Willie Walsh, Chief Executive of British Airways told Bloomberg today that the carrier is thinking about orders of Boeing's 777-300ER and the 787-10 aircraft, an extended version of Boeing's latest and much delayed composite jet.

British Airways, the flag carrier of United Kingdom, said that economic pressures on travellers might soon show a significant impact on demand for air travel services as on Wednesday it reported May traffic down by 0.7 per cent year-on-year.

The carrier, which increased ticket prices last week to deal with the higher fuel costs, said that long-haul economy travel was already down and that it remained to be understood how regular travellers would manage having less disposable earnings. It is usual in wake of oil price rise.

George Stinnes, head of investor relations at BA, said, "We have not seen a significant impact on volume so far, but clearly the pressure on people's budget is greater today than a year ago".

British Airways and Amadeus today said that they were stretching their existing association for a further 10 years, until the year 2017.

The fresh arrangement, which includes the entire IT Services association between BA and Amadeus, is the extension of the strategic agreement that began in the year 2000, planned to provide BA with a new generation technology platform for customer services management.
 
Accordingly, Amadeus, with the UK's flag carrier as a launch client, developed the 'Altea Customer Management Solution' consisting of 3 completely integrated parts: 'Altea Reservation' for distribution via BA's sales outlets, 'Altea Inventory' for international inventory management and 'Altea Departure Control' for the management of traveller check-in and flight take-off.
 
British Airways now makes use of the 'Altea Reservation and Inventory systems' which work in combination with the carrier's website ba.com and Revenue Management systems. 
 
The new deal with Amadeus gives an account of the terms under which BA would switch to the newly worked out Altea Departure Control, Customer Management system for traveller check-in.
 
BA CIO, Paul Coby, said, "I am delighted that we have been able to extend our strategic relationship with Amadeus which started in 2000. The Altea Reservation and Inventory systems have been great support for our drive to develop our sales and services to customers".
 
David Jones, Amadeus' Executive Vice President, Commercial said, "We are very pleased that British Airways has chosen to reconfirm their confidence in our solutions, both by extending their use of the installed systems and adding new ones to them.

We look forward to the full deployment of the full Altea platform for British Airways".

British Airways, one of the largest airlines in Europe, will carry out the shifting of its long-haul services from Terminal four to Terminal five in two phases.

In an announcement made on 28th May on its official website, the flag carrier of United Kingdom revealed that it had come to its decision together with BAA, the airport operator.

Some of the remaining long-haul services will be shifted on the 17th of September, including its flights to destinations such as Sao Paulo, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Philadelphia. So, passengers who are taking any of these flights, they will have to take the flights from the existing terminal only and after 17th of September, the flights will be shifted to Terminal 5.

British Airways, the flag carrier of United Kingdom, is getting ready to stop flights and reduce capacity in the near future in order to deal with the record high levels of oil prices. This is not a surprising move as lots of airlines are expected to follow suit in the similar fashion.

According to the reports of the London Telegraph, BA chief, Willie Walsh, would examine the carrier's flights on a route-by-route basis in order to find out what should be cut so that losses can be minimised.

While giving a presentation at a meeting of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Mr. Walsh indicated that the carrier could mothball a few of its older aircrafts, in a bid to save money. If BA chose this route, it will trail the example of Qantas, which reached the decision to adopt this strategy previously this year.

British Airways, the flag carrier of United Kingdom, announced an additional £60 fuel surcharges on its long-distance return flights. The biggest rise in fuel surcharge in the carrier's history comes just a month after its earlier price rise.

The rise in BA's fuel surcharge will mean an additional burden of £200 on a family of four that is already paying £672 in surcharges.

The fuel surcharge comes at a time when households are struggling with high food and fuel bills and only weeks ahead of the beginning of the holiday season. More than 5 million travellers a month will leave from UK airports and around 1.2 million of these will travel with BA.

Global credit crunch is causing problem for consumers and businesses alike, and it appears that the air travel industry is not be able to avoid some trouble in the present scenario.

As the fuel prices continue to move upward and the US economy swaying on the threshold of a recession, the year ahead seems to be a bumpy ride for airline companies.

British Airways has asserted that the present economic situation is set to make the next few months very tough for many airlines.

British Airways, one of the largest carriers in the world, has reported a growth of 45 per cent in its annual profits but said that economic pressures and rising fuel prices create difficulties for further improvement.

The company made a profit of about £883m in the year ending 31st March, which according to BA chief Willie Walsh is an outstanding performance.

Mr. Walsh said that he would not be accepting an annual bonus due to the problems in the opening of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow.

British Airways, one of the world's larges airlines, has uncovered plans to unveil a $30 m redevelopment programme to improve its ground facilities at the terminal building at New York JFK International Airport.

The redevelopment project, which is scheduled to start in the month of June this year, will cover three key areas: formation of a new premium check-in facility, with a dedicated curb side drop off for the carrier's First and Executive Club Gold travelers; construction of an improved and dedicated check-in area for BA's Club World and Executive Club Silver passengers; and the renovation of Terraces, First Class and Concorde Lounges to the latest Galleries specification.

Additionally, the redeveloped terminal building will be the first of its kind at the airport to go in for 'Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design' (LEED) certification.

Following a very long delay, British Airways-UK' flag carrier-will shift most of its remaining flight flying out of London Heathrow airport's older terminals to London Heathrow's new terminal, Terminal 5, as of 5th June, 2008.

Owing to the massive delays, abandoned flights and lost baggage concerns that affected London Heathrow's Terminal 5 soon after it opened for the public, the airport decided to stop the shifting of a number of long-haul flights to the new terminal.

As such, travellers coming from or leaving for North America continued to make use of the airport's older terminal T4.

Regardless of recurring delays, baggage missing and the lingering chaos that surrounded the opening of London Heathrow's Terminal 5 for public use, British Airways (BA) has been awarded with the recognition of Europe's 'best' airline, at the 'Business Traveller Middle East Awards'.

The event-taking place on an annual basis-held in Dubai and attended by around 400 guests: all of those who were present at the event are leading players in the international travel market.

However, the selection of British Airways as the prestigious award of the 'best European airline' was put together by the Business Traveller magazine readers.

British Airways' transatlantic subsidiary, OpenSkies, has been given permission to start operating its services on the route between Paris Orly Airport and New York JFK. This is very good news for passengers who want to fly to US from America, as they now have a signal of "go-ahead" form the authorities.

Passengers will soon be able to make bookings for the carrier's new service through travel agents and the airline's website at www.flyopenskies.com. So, you can visit the site to know more details about this deal.

The permission to 'go ahead' was granted by the US Department of Transportation officials late last week: the green light is one of the most significant moves since the 'Open Skies' agreement between EU and US came into force in the month of March.

According to a league table issued by NetCallidus, the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) company, the website of British Airways-UK's flag carrier and one of the Europe's largest airlines-is the best performing UK airline website. This is a major award for British Airways.

Virgin Atlantic, UK's second larges carrier in terms of turnover is placed at fifth position in the table prepared by the analysts at NetCallidus on the basis of a comparison of airline companies' market share by turnover to online traffic levels.

The SEO company says that BA is the chief dog both in the virtual and in the real world: it has a turnover of £8,753 m, and its website is the UK's 139th most popular website according to Alexa.

Richard Lovell, the former Carlson Wagonlit Travel European (CWT) boss, is to take up his new position as the Chairman of British Airways' Global Travel Advisory Board.

Made up of twenty-three high-status travellers across a variety of markets, the board has been created to assess the carrier's potential new introductions-products and services-and to give market feedback from the traveller's point of view. This is a new development for British Airways, as they are eager to know how the passengers of their flights are feeling about their services.

Before retiring previously in the year, Mr. Richard Lovell was serving as the President for CWT in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, Africa. He enjoyed his career with the company for 17 years.

British Airways is offering two nights stay for free at a London hotel to its customers during the summer season this year. The BA offer, however, is presently available only to passengers flying to the British capital from Pearson Airport, Toronto.

Those who want to avail the carrier's offer are asked to book their British Airways roundtrip ticket priced at just $650 (surcharges, taxes and other fees are not included in the price) and board the plane together with a family member or a friend, as all hotel accommodation in London is available on double occupancy basis.

However, the offer is also available for passengers flying alone-they will be able to enjoy accommodation only for one night. To be able to benefit from this special offer, passengers should confirm their bookings before the 13th of May. Travel date can be as late as 3rd September, 2008.

British Airways (BA) is hopeful that it can deal with an unstable year ahead by giving its first dividend since 2001 and increasing profits 45 per cent as it said the fuel costs are likely to go up GBP1 bn pounds.

BA shares which have seen a downfall of 12 per cent in the past fortnight, gained 8 per cent.

The company said it was checking its size, costs and network or routes against the conditions of financial pressures and record-high levels of fuel price. It also said that the revenue generation in this fiscal was likely to lesser than its earlier forecasts. The group, however, said the results for the fiscal ended 31st March showed it was up to the mark.

For British Airways, the current year, 2008, has been a touch year: the carrier has been named as the worst performer of all carriers in a survey conducted by the Association of European Airlines.

A new survey by many European airline companies collected information related to flight delays and lost baggage.

According to the survey, one in every thirty-six travellers on British Airways was found to be hanging on unsuccessfully at the baggage carousel: the number is the equivalent of 7 travellers losing a bag on a full Boeing 747 plane. One in forty travellers suffered loss of their luggage during the same period of the year 2007. bmi was the second worst carrier as regard to missing baggage with one in forty-five travelers suffering the loss.

Don't miss the opportunity to save on a selection of South Africa escapes including a luxury Cape Town and Winelands holiday with key2holidays.

Enjoy 5 nights going through the wonders of Cape Town. And after that, spend 2 nights in the winelands of Stellenbosch.

You will be staying at Cape Town's Winchester Mansions-a fifty-one room retreat constructed in the 1920s representing the luxury and hospitality of the past. Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and only 10 minutes away from the superb Clifton Beaches, the hotel is a calm oasis only 7 minutes from Cape Town.

Enjoy a free night with British Airways Holidays at one of more than a dozen upper-crust hotels in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia.

In the usual course of events, clients will be asked to make reservations fro a 4-night stay from a list of specially chosen properties all over the world, so be able to get a free night. While in a few cases, guest will have to book a minimum stay for 6 consecutive nights.

Some of the luxurious hotels included in the British Airways Holidays offer include the 5-star Los Angeles Beverly Hilton, the 4-star historic Hotel Astoria in Budapest, Prague's 3-star Atlantic Hotel and the 3-star Radisson Hotel in Bangkok.

Confirm your bookings by midnight tonight and enjoy discounted seats to a number of North American destinations.

British Airways is offering up to £50 discount on flights to its destinations in North America.

Discounted flights are available from 8 of the UK's major airports: London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester and Jersey.

British Airways has revealed that the fuel surcharge on its flights-long-haul and short-haul-will be going up. This is quite an expected development with the price of fuel rising to record levels and many smaller airlines feeling the heat of keeping the fares.

The carrier is increasing the fuel surcharge by as much as £30 to deal with the continuous upward move in the price of kerosene that it attributed to 'continuing high oil prices'.

With the new pricing plan, which will come into effect from the 2nd of May, travellers will have to pay a one-way surcharge of £15 on the airline's long-haul flights of more than 9 hours journey.

British Airlines has announced its decision to roll back its daily services between Manchester Airport and New York coming into effect during this October. However, the three US airlines operating their flights in the route including Continental, American Airlines and Delta have confirmed that they have no plans at present to increase the seat capacity in their carriers.

Ten days back, BA announced its decision to terminate its services in the said route on account of poor yields and lack of premium passengers. However, from the point of view of Richard Leigh, the popular analyst from RDC aviation, the principal reason for the demise of this service is just a price war.

Observing the great competition mounting in the route due to several reasons, the analyst observed, "In the last couple of years, Continental added an extra daily flight to New York from Manchester and Delta arrived with a daily JFK service using a reasonably large B767-400 aircraft. Airlines had to lower prices to stimulate demand and steal market share. The route became pretty competitive."

British Airways (BA), the largest airline and flag carrier of the United Kingdom, will begin operating its services from the GMR Hyderabad International Airport from the 28th of October 2008.

The carrier will offer a five times a week flight: on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.

The new flight, BA 276 flight will take-off from Hyderabad at 7.15 a.m. and land at London Heathrow at 1 p.m. On its return journey, the BA 277 will leave London Heathrow at 1.30 p.m. and land at Hyderabad at 4:25 p.m. (next morning).

By way of expanding its London City Airport based route network, British Airways has decided to introduce a brand new service to Dublin in addition to increasing the frequency of services on some of the existing routes. Commencing on the 1st of June, the airline will operate three flights to Dublin everyday. The one-way ticket in the route is priced from £55, inclusive of all taxes and charges. Notably, the introduction of this new service will put an end to the monopoly that Air France CityJet has enjoyed in the route for quite long. Air France City Jet is currently offering six flights a day in this route.

Peter Simpson, managing director of BA CityFlyer, the wholly owned subsidiary of British Airways observed, "We have added to our previously business-based schedule a number of new routes that will hopefully attract leisure passengers who want to fly direct from the Docklands. Dublin is an important new route, linking two financial capitals, and we are delighted to be able to offer a three-a-day service in direct response to passenger demand."

At present, British Airways is operating more than 400 flights a week in the European and domestic destinations from its Dockland hub. Some of the notable destinations offered by the airline from this hub include Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Madrid, Glasgow, Frankfurt, Nice, Warsaw and Zurich. The present move is also likely to make Dublin the most preferred stop off for the all business class flights operated in the London-City New York route.

In a significant move, British Airways has decided to introduce a brand new service connecting London City Airport and Dublin effective in its summer timetable. In addition, the airline will also increase the number of services on some of its routes.

The announcement made by the airline has also noted that there will be flight services between Docklands airport and the Irish capital starting from the 1st of June. There will be three flights departing per day on this schedule. In addition, the airline will also operate an additional service to Nice from London City airport with flights offered daily. This service will come into effect from this September. Over and above, the airlines will also offer services connecting London City airport and Edinburgh.

Peter Simpson, the managing director of BA CityFlyer, BA's subsidiary airline, which offers these said services remarked, "Dublin is an important new route, linking two financial capitals, and we are delighted to be able to offer a three-a-day service in direct response to passenger demand."

Travellers will get a chance in an offer from British Airways Holidays to save as much as 60 percent, when in future they will be parking their car at an airport in the United Kingdom. Luton Airport provides the largest savings (that is, 60 percent) for vehicles choosing to park there; whereas, car parking at the Manchester International Airport expects savings as much as 52 percent which is lower to the first one. Presently, parking at Birmingham Airparks provides to reduce only 45 percent of their savings.

British Airways Holidays provides this pact in union with HolidayExtras.co.uk, and specials are accessible at most major UK airports, inclusive at London-Gatwick, Heathrow, Stansted, Cardiff, Bristol, and Leeds/Bradford and at numerous others. The lowest price £39 (regular price as high as £101.25) is available at Luton, where car parking has the greatest savings. The daily parking is priced £4.00 per day at the Manchester Airport, a facility for those who are very much interested near the terminal building. Parking at the airport grounds can be anticipated for vehicles for a price around £12.00 near the end of April, and in early May. Cancellation of bookings is available free of charge, except for a modest charge of 99p for cancellation 24 hours prior to the claimed date. Clients of British Airways Holidays will get a solid guarantee to avail the facility at the lowest available price on airport parking throughout the UK. 

A report published in the Guardian notes that the suitcases missed during Terminal 5's opening are once again being transported back to Heathrow after a futile fortnight's trip to Italy. Earlier as the luggage handling system of Terminal 5 failed, British Airways got the baggage transported to a warehouse located near Milan Airport for sorting out.

This was done with the hope that the luggage could be forwarded to the owners through some reliable service. Under this move, the passengers were under the compelling situation to travel without their luggage on the days immediately following the opening of the new terminal. 

The said report confirms that the thousands of bags accumulated thus are now once again transported back to the UK. The reason stated was that most of their owners have completed their holidays and trips even before BA could reach them out with their bags. Quite interestingly, these bags are called as 'chasing bags' in the terminology coined by the airline industry.

British Airways has told that the company is transferring thousands of bags to Milan, Italy to manage the backlog of luggage accumulated at the airport. Not less than 19,000 pieces of baggage have got accumulated in the airport within a few days of the opening of the new terminal 5. The bags are being sent to a courier firm based in Milan to sort them out and send them to the owners.

According to the reports published in the Times Newspaper, the road route to Milan could have been quicker than by air whereas it took about 24 hours to get to Milan by Lorry and that there was no necessity for the bags to wait for screening. According to the UK press association, the airline has over 400 volunteers working on this plan dealing with the enormous loads of accumulated bags. Notably, these bags were separated from the owners due to cancelled flights during the course of six days following the opening of terminal 5.

A spokeswoman of British Airlines remarked, "Delayed bags must undergo enhanced levels of security screening. Much of this process must be done manually rather than using the automated baggage systems. Although the majority of delayed bags will be sorted and reflighted at Heathrow, we can reunite larger numbers of bags with their owners more quickly. It is quicker for bags with European mainland addresses to go to Milan for sorting and onward transport than waiting for space to appear on flights leaving Heathrow."

With European Airlines poised to enjoy fantastic benefits in the airline industry after a significant agreement came into force on 30th March, the said agreement has broken new grounds by lifting the restrictions on transatlantic travel that have been there for the past 70 years.

The Open Skies agreement recently signed enables American and European airlines to fly their services on any route between the US and Europe. The agreement means that the airlines are now free to increase the number of destinations and services operated to any of these regions.

Notably, when the restrictions were enforced for so long, only British Airways, United Airlines, American and Virgin Atlantic could offer direct flight connections between Heathrow and the US. Interestingly, the agreement was enforced