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British Airways Passengers Catch A Flight To Dusseldorf, Instead They Land In Edinburgh

British Airways Passengers Catch A Flight To Dusseldorf, Instead They Land In Edinburgh

Passengers on board British Airways flight number BA3271 left London with their destination set firmly on Dusseldorf in Germany. However, there was confusion when the aircraft landed with the announcement, “Welcome to Edinburgh.” According to News.com.au, the announcement wasn’t a mistake by the announcer, either. The aircraft actually touched down in Edinburgh, some 528 miles […]

5y ago

Man Sues British Airways, Claims He Was Injured Being Forced To Sit Next To Obese Passenger

Man Sues British Airways, Claims He Was Injured Being Forced To Sit Next To Obese Passenger

A man has recently come forward to sue British Airways for being seated next to an obese passenger on a flight more than two years ago. According to the man, the seating arrangement left him injured. According to a report by USA Today, the man — identified as Stephen Prosser — said that he was […]

6y ago

Irish Aviation Authority Investigating UFO Spotted By British Airways Pilot

Irish Aviation Authority Investigating UFO Spotted By British Airways Pilot

Shannon air traffic control in Ireland received a strange call at 6:47 a.m. local time Friday morning. It was a British Airways pilot…and he was looking at a UFO. The pilot saw something “moving so fast,” and asked if there were military exercises being conducted in the area, according to the BBC. The pilot was […]

6y ago

British Airways Data Hack: Cyberattack Steals Bank Card Details Of 380,000 Airline Customers

British Airways Data Hack: Cyberattack Steals Bank Card Details Of 380,000 Airline Customers

British Airways has revealed that personal and financial details of its customers who made bookings between Aug. 21 and Sept. 5 have been stolen. The airline said that the data breach compromised the bank cards of 380,000 customers. Passengers’ travel and passport details, however, were not affected by the nearly two-week long hack. British Airways […]

6y ago

Airlines Are Extending Flight Times To Avoid Paying Compensation For Delays, Report Finds

Airlines Are Extending Flight Times To Avoid Paying Compensation For Delays, Report Finds

According to a recent report by Which? Travel, plane journeys are taking longer than they did a decade ago despite more advanced and improved technology, reports The Guardian. Airlines have been accused of padding their schedules as a way of misleading passengers to believe they are arriving on time. The extended flight times, usually of […]

6y ago

Bed Bugs Plague British Columbia Woman On British Airways Flight, Experts Say Not Surprised

Bed Bugs Plague British Columbia Woman On British Airways Flight, Experts Say Not Surprised

Flying can be stressful enough for passengers, but for British Columbia native, Heather Szilagyi, her 7-year-old daughter, and fiance, Eric Neilson, a trip on a British Airways flight to London on October 10 added a whole other level of anxiety and worry. Heather and her family were seated and buckled in when they noticed what […]

7y ago

Passenger Forced To Sit In Someone Else’s Urine Or ‘Wee’ On Flight, Claims Unhappy Flyer

Passenger Forced To Sit In Someone Else’s Urine Or ‘Wee’ On Flight, Claims Unhappy Flyer

An 11-hour flight wasn’t a pleasant journey for a British man who went to take his seat on board a British Airways’ flight and noticed it was wet. At first, the passenger thought it was water but the smell indicated it couldn’t be anything else but urine, the passenger told reporters. Andrew Wilkinson, 39, of […]

7y ago

British Airways Pulls Out All The Stops In Star-Studded Safety Video For A Great Cause

British Airways Pulls Out All The Stops In Star-Studded Safety Video For A Great Cause

Airline safety videos are often ignored by flight passengers who want nothing more than to go straight to sleep or watch the featured movies available onscreen as soon as they reach their designated seats. Because of this, airlines have tried to find ways to draw their passengers’ attention to the aircraft’s safety videos by coming […]

7y ago

British Airways Aims To Resume Flights After ‘Catastrophic’ IT Failure, Warns Of Delays

British Airways Aims To Resume Flights After ‘Catastrophic’ IT Failure, Warns Of Delays

British Airways’ massive IT failure has caused unprecedented disruption for the airline which could last for several days, according to experts. British Airways is planning to have a “near normal schedule,” but warns of delays. On Saturday, May 27, British Airways suffered a major IT outage causing widespread confusion in addition to delays and queues […]

7y ago

British Airways Cancels All London Flights After Worldwide IT Failure Causes Global Delays

British Airways Cancels All London Flights After Worldwide IT Failure Causes Global Delays

British Airways suffered a major IT outage on Saturday, May 27, causing widespread confusion in addition to delays and queues for passengers around the world. The airline has canceled all its flights leaving from London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports before 6 p.m. local time, according to NBC News. Outside of London, British Airways passengers were […]

7y ago

Sharm el-Sheikh Flights Suspended by British Airways Indefinitely

Sharm el-Sheikh Flights Suspended by British Airways Indefinitely

Security concerns suspend all Sharm el-Sheikh flights by British Airways indefinitely. Following the downing of Airbus 321, resulting in the death of 224 individuals, in October 2015, British Airways has suspended flights for Sharm el-Sheikh. The Russian operated airline, Metrojet, crashed after an attack claimed by the Islamic State militant group. Originally, British Airways had […]

8y ago

British Airways Airbus A380 Lands With Square Tire, Aviation Experts Baffled

British Airways Airbus A380 Lands With Square Tire, Aviation Experts Baffled

Aviation experts have been left baffled after a British Airways Airbus A380 landed with a square-shaped tire. According to CNN, the plane was a Hong Kong-London flight that landed at London Heathrow on May 5. The incident was first reported on The Aviation Herald, a publication that exclusively reports incidents related to passenger planes. According […]

8y ago

Plane Hit By Drone In U.K. — Officials Now Worrying About ‘Life-Threatening’ Drone Risk

Plane Hit By Drone In U.K. — Officials Now Worrying About ‘Life-Threatening’ Drone Risk

After a drone hit a British Airways flight just before landing Sunday at Heathrow airport, Scotland Yard has mobilized to track down the suspect behind the controls, and lawmakers are calling for more stringent rules over hobby drones. Authorities believe this is the first incident of its kind, although there have been plenty of near-misses […]

8y ago

Drone Hits Plane At Heathrow Airport

Drone Hits Plane At Heathrow Airport

A suspected drone hit a plane on arrival from Geneva to Heathrow airport in the U.K. The British Airways flight was hit by an object, believed to be a drone, as it was approaching Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport around 12:50 p.m., according to the Evening Standard. Thankfully, the pilot of flight BA727 was able […]

8y ago

Sachin Tendulkar Fans Troll British Airways After Airlines’ Twitter Account Asks For The Cricketing Legend’s Full Name

Sachin Tendulkar Fans Troll British Airways After Airlines’ Twitter Account Asks For The Cricketing Legend’s Full Name

The official Twitter account of British Airlines has done something that has invoked the wrath of over 1.2 billion Indians. Earlier today, cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar, the most popular sportsperson in the country who was flying British Airways, tweeted about the a not-so-pleasant experience he had with the airline. It all started with a tweet […]

9y ago

Pilot Chris Henkey Was Days From Retiring When Fire Engulfed Plane — Flight Was His Last

Pilot Chris Henkey Was Days From Retiring When Fire Engulfed Plane — Flight Was His Last

In 42 years of flying, pilot Chris Henkey never experienced an emergency like the sudden blaze that ripped through his Boeing 777 just before takeoff in Las Vegas this week. And now, Henkey swears he’ll never fly again, the pilot told NBC News. British Airways Flight 2276 from Las Vegas to London was the second […]

9y ago

Las Vegas Plane Fire: 27 Injured As British Airways Jet Catches Fire Heading Into Takeoff

Las Vegas Plane Fire: 27 Injured As British Airways Jet Catches Fire Heading Into Takeoff

A Las Vegas plane fire on Tuesday left 27 people injured, and the National Transportation Safety Board has started an inquiry into the incident. The British Airways jet was departing McCarran Airport in Nevada and heading to London when the fire occurred. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Las Vegas plane fire happened when […]

9y ago

Wearing Oxygen Masks: Pilots Forced To Make Emergency Landing

Wearing Oxygen Masks: Pilots Forced To Make Emergency Landing

While wearing oxygen masks, pilots were forced to make an emergency landing. As the United Press International (UPI) reports, a British Airways flight had to make an emergency landing at the London Heathrow airport after the pilots of the plane became starved for oxygen. The incident took place on March 6 after the pilots aboard […]

9y ago

Stowaway Plummets to His Death, A Second Survives — Were They Desperate Emigrants?

Stowaway Plummets to His Death, A Second Survives — Were They Desperate Emigrants?

A British Airways flight flew from Johannesburg, South Africa to London — a trip of 8,000 miles – carrying two desperate travelers on Thursday. One stowaway was found unconscious in the plane’s undercarriage, the other fell 1,400 feet from the sky onto a London office building. Reports indicate the stowaway who survived was found at […]

9y ago

Cyber-Attacks Wiping Out Entire Accounts — Slack, GitHub And British Airways Hit

Cyber-Attacks Wiping Out Entire Accounts — Slack, GitHub And British Airways Hit

Cyber-attacks seem to be becoming more and more frequent, with major companies like Target and Anthem suffering massive security breaches within the past few years and thousands of nude photos being leaked online. This week has brought another frightening story of a cyber-attack, this time affecting British Airways, the chat service Slack and the web […]

9y ago

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