British Airways apre San Jose (CA) e New Orleans


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press release ufficiale:


Yes, British Airways Knows The Way To San José

Sun-drenched Silicon Valley is to get a direct service to Heathrow when British Airways starts offering non-stop flights to San José in Summer 2016.
Fares to San José start from £599 return, during British Airways’ ‘Big British Take Off’.
San José is the world’s software power-house and home to household hi-tech giants such as Adobe, Apple, Cisco, eBay, Google and Intel, as well as thousands of tech start-up companies and world-famous Stanford University in nearby Palo Alto.
British Airways will offer daily flights on the only service between Europe and San José, to the airline’s fourth Californian destination, after Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, on its brand new 787-9 Dreamliner, which features its very latest First cabin.
Customers can already fly daily to Los Angeles and San Francisco in comfort and style on British Airways’ super-jumbo, the A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft.
Stephen Humphreys, British Airways, head of global sales, said: “There’s no better place to fly the world’s most advanced passenger aircraft than to the world’s home of hi-tech and innovation, San José.
“Our new daily service will offer fantastic direct flights between Silicon Valley and London, with onward connections to scores of destinations around the globe on our extensive world-wide network.
“We’re sure this new service will prove just the business for Californian-based companies looking to expand into Europe and will strengthen London’s strong commercial ties with the West Coast. It also offers a brilliant starting point for visitors to nearby Carmel and Monterey on the rugged central coast along highway one, and easy access to the unrivalled splendour of Yosemite National Park.”
Sam Liccardo, mayor of San Jose, said: “San José and Silicon Valley tech companies have committed to Mineta San José International as being their airport of choice, and have expressed strong support for a direct flight to London for several years.
"British Airways’ announcement to launch services between San José and London Heathrow will be well received by both business and leisure travellers in our region.”
Kim Becker, Mineta San José International Airport’s director of aviation, said: “London is the number one requested international destination from Mineta San José International Airport, and we're so pleased to share the news today that we have delivered this service to Silicon Valley businesses and residents.
“We warmly welcome British Airways and the innovative Boeing 787-900 Dreamliner to San José, and know our mutual customers will also enjoy SJC's convenience, on-time performance, and technologically-advanced facilities and services."
The new British Airways daily service starts on May 4, 2016. The BA279 will touch down in San José
for the first time, just after 6pm in the evening, after a 10 hour 50 minute flight from Heathrow.
The airline’s 787-9 Dreamliner will offer eight seats in its new First cabin, 42 seats in Club World, 39 in World Traveller Plus and another 127 for those seated in World Traveller.
Return flights in First start from £3,675, from £2,900 in Club World, £899 in World Traveller Plus and £599 in World Traveller, including all taxes and charges.
The British Airways 787-9 Dreamliner, which will make its first commercial flight from Heathrow to Delhi in October, will be the most technologically advanced aircraft in British Airways' fleet.
Lower pressurisation means the internal cabin air is less dry leaving customers feeling more refreshed with less jet lag and the aircraft's smooth ride technology reduces the effect of turbulence.
Soothing mood lighting in every cabin gradually adjusts to reflect the time of day, while customers can gaze out of the biggest electronically dimmable windows in the sky, giving each of them a view of the horizon from every seat.
At 20ft longer than the 787-8 (of which there are eight in the airline’s fleet), the 787-9 makes room for British Airways’ brand new First cabin.
It offers eight exclusive seats (compared to the 14 seats* available on other British Airways long-haul aircraft) giving even more privacy to customers.
Redesigned to put comfort at the heart of the experience, each First suite is gently lit with ambient lighting and offers customers extra storage space, including room for shoes, handbags and personal items, a personal suiter for jackets and coats accessible from the seat, and a discreet charging point area next to their armrest.
The seat and in-flight entertainment console has also been updated with a new smartphone-like handset, from which customers can simultaneously watch one item, such as the moving map, while also watching a film, on the new fixed 23inch widescreen.
With a total of 42 787s destined to join British Airways, the aircraft is to become the mainstay of the airline's long-haul fleet.

http://www.britishairways.com/en-gb...827111134&articleType=LatestNews#.VeXS3y5dVe8
 
Re: British Airways apre San Jose (California)

In merito all'apertura del volo iniziato ieri qualche ulteriore dato sul potenziale indotto, incentivi dati a BA e del beneficio sul territorio:

San Jose city officials said that the partnership with BA was part of their efforts to get more passengers to the city. San Jose's economy is expected to get a boost of $100m (£69m,€87.42m) annually in the form of shopping, hotel rooms, airport concessions and parking fees. Mayor of San José, Sam Liccardo said, "We're told the market potential for this route is 900,000 passengers." The additional earnings would help the Californian city, which underwent a $1.3bn modernisation process in 2010, pay its outstanding loans.

British Airways already has flights connecting three other cities in the state of California. Hence, to get it to start operations to San Jose, airport officials reportedly provided the airline with massive incentives. Kim Becker, director of aviation at the Mineta San Jose International Airport said, it had waived off many fees such as landing fees, gate fees and ticket centre fees for two years.

The San José Mayor added, "London is the number one requested international destination from Mineta San José International Airport, and we're pleased to now offer it to business and leisure travelers in our region. British Airways' new service is the first of four international flights we will inaugurate in the next few weeks, reflecting the growing importance of the Silicon Valley region globally."

Carl Guardino, CEO at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a non-profit advocacy group in California said that 481 Silicon Valley companies had a presence in the UK while, 118 British companies had a presence in the Silicon Valley. "Time is treasure. We can't afford to waste time as executives stuck in traffic going to another airport with direct flights. Our companies, whether large or small, are global from day one", Guardino added.
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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/british-airways-launches-nonstop-flight-san-jose-london-1558397
 
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Fonte: Economist

Little by little, British Airways is chipping away at its good name


BACK in the 1990s, British Airways, the nation’s flag-carrier, proclaimed itself to be “the world’s favourite airline” in a long-running and hugely successful advertising campaign. Watching its iconic TV commercials from sofas across the country, many Brits—a pint-sized, starry-eyed Gulliver among them—swelled with pride at what was, at the time, a genuinely treasured national asset. Were British Airways to run the same campaign today, it would probably stir a mixture of derision abroad and embarrassment at home.

Rising competition is partly to blame. In recent decades the Persian Gulf carriers have dethroned BA as the standard-bearers for long-haul service, while a new breed of low-cost carriers has attacked its short-haul dominance. Yet the loss of prestige in distant lands and market share close to home has not hit the airline’s finances. To the contrary, British Airways rakes in the cash. It posted a £2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) net profit last year; equivalent to nearly half of all takings in the European airline market. Three factors have driven this success: slot restrictions at London Heathrow Airport, which suppress competition at BA’s home base; a merger-and-acquisition strategy under the flag of its holding company, International Airlines Group (IAG), which now also owns Iberia, Vueling and Aer Lingus; and a relentless dilution of BA’s once-superior customer service and on-board product.

It was the global financial crisis that put BA on its new, thriftier flightpath. Willie Walsh, the airline’s former chief executive, who now steers IAG, claimed in 2009 that BA was in a “fight for survival” amid structural changes to the airline industry. As well as confronting trade unions, he removed free meals from short-haul flights; reduced free baggage allowances while simultaneously increasing excess weight charges; and imposed a fee for seat reservations. At the time, the airline insisted it had “no plans” to limit basic fares to carry-on luggage. They soon made them. It introduced “hand-baggage only” fares on some short-haul routes in 2013, imposing a surcharge for checked bags.


Despite notching up five consecutive years in the black, BA is getting even stingier. Its latest measure, like the previous ones, has enraged a British tabloid press hungry for holiday-season scandal. Without formally announcing any changes, the airline last month stopped providing two meals to Economy passengers on flights under eight-and-a-half hours. In lieu of a complimentary sandwich six hours after their first meal, travellers on the London to New York route are now presented with one—and only one, according to embarrassed cabin crew—fun-sized chocolate bar. Passengers who spoke to the Sun about the policy described it as “a joke”, “insulting” and “outrageous”. The Sun is oft-suspected of embellishing quotes, but Gulliver doubts that its reporters had much difficulty sourcing bona fide remarks in this case.

Worse still, according to Head for Points, the travel blog that first leaked the story, BA is now making a “monthly announcement” to staff about successive waves of cutbacks. For July, the blog disclosed that bottled water, pretzels, cheese and biscuits will also be removed from Economy cabins, while amuse-bouche will be taken off the menu in First class (quelle horreur!). For August, it cited cabin-crew reports that tuck boxes—trolleys filled with free snacks on long-haul flights—will be removed from Economy, while Club passengers will no longer receive a choice of their starter. Next month, the airline will reportedly stop providing free newspapers at the gate for inbound short-haul flights to London.

Taken in isolation, these measures are tolerable if not popular. But BA should be careful; reputations are more difficult to win back than to lose. The man nominally in charge of these decaying service standards is Alex Cruz, the former boss of Vueling. Few doubt, however, that Mr Walsh, who earned the nickname “Slasher Walsh” for his penchant for cost-cutting, still pulls the strings. When Keith Williams was promoted from CFO to CEO at the airline, as Mr Walsh took up the reins at the parent company, he joked that he had moved from “the second most important job at BA to the second most important job at BA”. If Mr Cruz wants to avoid the same effacement, he should listen to the angry backlash against these policies and stop denigrating a once-proud British brand.
 
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BGW ha detto:
Without formally announcing any changes, the airline last month stopped providing two meals to Economy passengers on flights under eight-and-a-half hours. In lieu of a complimentary sandwich six hours after their first meal, travellers on the London to New York route are now presented with one—and only one, according to embarrassed cabin crew—fun-sized chocolate bar. Passengers who spoke to the Sun about the policy described it as “a joke”, “insulting” and “outrageous”.
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Con questo oltraggio BA si è giocata decenni di fedeltà di insigni forumisti..... Londonfog ci sei????
 
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Confermo, volando spesso su SFO con BA il servizio continua a peggiorare pian piano.

Per non parlare delle modifiche ridicole all'Executive Club...
 
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Confermo anche io, in world traveller ho volato il 6 agosto da LHR a JFK e oltre al classico pasto a tre portate dopo il decollo, lo snack prima dell'atterraggio consisteva in una barretta di cioccolato o un paio di biscotti. Nel ritorno, il 14 agosto da YUL e LHR ci hanno servito cena a tre portate e per colazione una scelta tra muffin e barretta di cereali. Ben lontani dalla colazione servitami lo scorso anno di ritorno da SFO che consisteva in omlette, yogurt, muffin e barretta.
Leggevo anche che prima di introdurre queste modifiche, stavano valutando l'ipotesi di introdurre il servizio bar a pagamento sui voli a corto raggio, per fortuna ci hanno ripensato, dato che sulle tratte LIN-LHR e ritorno ho continuato a ricevere sandwich e muffin con bevande a volontà.
 
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paolo15 ha detto:
Leggevo anche che prima di introdurre queste modifiche, stavano valutando l'ipotesi di introdurre il servizio bar a pagamento sui voli a corto raggio, per fortuna ci hanno ripensato, dato che sulle tratte LIN-LHR e ritorno ho continuato a ricevere sandwich e muffin con bevande a volontà.
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In realtà non ci hanno ripensato, l'ipotesi è ancora in piedi solo che non si sa ancora quando verrà implementata.
 
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L'open bar in economy sui voli LR c'è ancora?
 
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Bender ha detto:
L'open bar in economy sui voli LR c'è ancora?
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Sì, io l'ho trovato sia sul volo diurno che notturno, però ormai è limitato solo alle bevande, mentre fino ad un anno fa c'erano snack in abbondanza. Se non altro, oltre a trovare bevande a volontà nel galley, il cabin crew passava spesso a distribuire acqua e succhi in cabina.
 
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aa/vv?? ha detto:
Con questo oltraggio BA si è giocata decenni di fedeltà di insigni forumisti..... Londonfog ci sei????
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La verità è che la maggior parte dei passeggeri vuole mangiare due volte sui voli intercontinentali! Come biasimarli?
Quella frittatina con salsiccia economy-style, e pomodorino a 200 gradi o talvolta freddo marmato.... fa parte dell'esperienza di viaggio, è oltraggioso che anche BA si arrenda su queste icone della barbon class. :sconfortato:

http://www.lacuochinasopraffina.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/flightfood-e1295112268521.jpg (fonte: lacuochinasopraffina)
 
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aa/vv?? ha detto:
Con questo oltraggio BA si è giocata decenni di fedeltà di insigni forumisti..... Londonfog ci sei????
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Personalmente non ho mai preso la colazione al rientro dagli Stati Uniti, preferivo dormire di piu'. Il discorso e' diverso all'andata.
BA sta perdendo colpi in molte cose, pero' le alternative nei voli che mi interessano non sono molto meglio. AA ha un sedile di J migliore ma tutto sommato fra lounge e servizio a bordo alla fine BA vince a fotofinish.

Il discorso diventa diverso se facessi solo scalo a LHR con coincidenze 'tirate', in questo caso visto quello che danno in Eurotraveller capisco che qualche passeggero tenti di addentare il sedile davanti :)

Se volete vedere il futuro, guardate le compagnie americane sui nazionali dove anche in F non e' che diano un granche' perfino nei voli lunghi
 
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londonfog ha detto:
Personalmente non ho mai preso la colazione al rientro dagli Stati Uniti, preferivo dormire di piu'. Il discorso e' diverso all'andata.
BA sta perdendo colpi in molte cose, pero' le alternative nei voli che mi interessano non sono molto meglio. AA ha un sedile di J migliore ma tutto sommato fra lounge e servizio a bordo alla fine BA vince a fotofinish.

Il discorso diventa diverso se facessi solo scalo a LHR con coincidenze 'tirate', in questo caso visto quello che danno in Eurotraveller capisco che qualche passeggero tenti di addentare il sedile davanti :)

Se volete vedere il futuro, guardate le compagnie americane sui nazionali dove anche in F non e' che diano un granche' perfino nei voli lunghi
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per il futuro, non guardare ad Ovest ma a Sud-Est
 
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Mi sembra un'ottima apertura, sperando che sia così possibile raggiungere SF a prezzi più bassi.
Il taglio della colazione in economy è veramente triste.
 
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Metto qui: BA apre New Orleans (possiamo aggiornare il titolo? Grazie )

British Airways resumes New Orleans service from March 2017

British Airways today (20OCT16) announced planned service resumption to New Orleans, a destination served by BA between May 1981 and October 1982 (3 weekly London Gatwick – New Orleans – Mexico City with L1011 Tristar, according to OAG). From 27MAR17, the oneWorld member will be operating London Heathrow – New Orleans route 4 times a week, on board Boeing 787-8 aircraft.

Reservation for this route opens today.

BA225 LHR1540 – 1940MSY 788 x247
BA224 MSY2120 – 1200+1LHR 788 x247

airlineroute
 
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E' il primo volo diretto dall' europa a New orleans e penso sia anche il primo volo di lungo raggio da MSY.

Ho perso il conto di quante destinazioni opera BA negli USA penso siano oltre una ventina
 
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Aprono con la macchina e gli slot di chengdu, che chiude a gennaio
 
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