British Airways is one of the world’s longest
established airlines and has always been regarded as an industry-leader.
Last year, more than 38 million people chose to fly with British Airways.
British Airways’ worldwide route network covers some 216 destinations in
94 countries (including franchises, subsidiaries and oneworld partners).
The British Airways Group employs more than 50,000 people in around 100
countries worldwide.
British Airways two main operating bases are London’s two main airports,
Heathrow (the world’s biggest international airport) and Gatwick.
British Airways has a fleet of 312 aircraft with an average age of seven
and a half years. The fleet includes 100 wide bodied longhaul aircraft (57
Boeing 747-400s and 43 Boeing 777s).
British Airways takes great pride in delivering the highest levels of
innovative customer service. In January 2000, it unveiled £600 million worth of
new customer services and products, to be introduced during the subsequent two
years. This is the biggest investment of its kind in airline history. It
includes flat beds in the Club World longhaul business cabin, and a fourth
cabin, World Traveller Plus, for those passengers who wish to upgrade from
traditional economy on long haul flights without wishing to pay for a Club
ticket.
British Airways is one of the founding partners of the oneworld alliance,
which took off in February 1999. Fellow members now include American Airlines,
Aer Lingus, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, LanChile and Qantas and Swiss.
Besides oneworld, British Airways has one-on-one relationships with a number of
airlines. It owns a 17 per cent stake in Qantas and 9 per cent in Iberia.
British Airways also fully owns subsidiaries such as British Airways
CitiExpress.
Members of British Airways’ franchise family include British Mediterranean
Airways, GB Airways, Comair, Loganair,and Regional Air.
British Airways also "code-shares" with a number of other airlines -
including , America West, Middle East-based Emirates, SN Brussels and Poland’s
LOT.
These various "alliance" arrangements enable British Airways to offer
passengers smoother travel to more places, with any one airline unable to fly
every single route worldwide for financial and regulatory reasons. Through
oneworld and its other alliances, British Airways can offer passengers seamless
flights to some 550 destinations in more than 130 countries worldwide.
Unlike many of the world's other leading airlines, British Airways is
owned entirely by private investors, with more than a quarter of a million
shareholders. Its Chairman is Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge, with Rod Eddington
serving as Chief Executive.
British Airways traces its origins back to August 1919, when its original
predecessor airline, called Aircraft Transport and Travel, launched the world's
first daily scheduled international air service, between Hounslow Heath, on the
edge of today's London Heathrow, to Paris Le Bourget.
Since those pioneering days, it has also taken the world into the jet age - with
British-built Comets - the Autoland era, and into supersonic passenger flight.
British Airways’ corporate mission is: To be the undisputed leader in
world travel.
British Airways website is www.ba.com.
oneworld’s website is www.oneworldalliance.com
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