On 18 June 2021, a British Airways 787 being loaded for a cargo-only flight at London’s Heathrow Airport suffered an unintended nose gear retraction….
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British Airways
British Airways (BA/BAW) is the flag carrier of the United Kingdom. It’s part of the world’s third-largest airline group, International Airlines Group (IAG) and a founding member of the Oneworld alliance. It operates out of two main hubs, London Heathrow (LHR) and London Gatwick (LGW). The airline currently operates a fleet of 257 aircraft. Read the latest British Airways news and recent flight tracking events.
Headquarters: London, England, UK
In this video we take a look back at what it was like to fly in the Upper Deck of the British Airways 747,…
England has begun a new national lockdown this week that includes a ban on leisure travel in and out of the country. That’s terrible…
When British Airways flew its iconic 747-400 out of Heathrow for the last time earlier this month, it was really the end of an…
The pandemic has put a number of older airplanes into expedited retirement this year, pushing down the world’s average fleet age. Still, it wouldn’t…
Earlier this week British Airways flight BA269 from London to Los Angeles had a problem with its flaps and the crew decided to return to…
On this episode of AvTalk, a Pegasus Airlines 737 overruns the runway in Istanbul, traffic to China grinds to a halt, Air Italy calls…
British Airways set a new New York–London subsonic commercial aircraft speed record on 9 February with the BA112 landing in London 4 hours 56…
On this episode of AvTalk, we discuss Boeing’s MCAS software update, the continued grounding of the 737 MAX fleet, and passengers on one flight…
Earlier this morning, a WDL Aviation flight operating for British Airways mistakenly filed paperwork to Edinburgh instead of Düsseldorf and landed in the Scottish…
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