British Airways said on Thursday that it will resume flight operations to Pakistan from the UK next month.
The airline, which was the world's biggest operator of the 747-400 model, had already planned to ground its fleet of 31 of the iconic wide-bodied jets in 2024
BA had been planning to retire the aircraft in 2024 but with passenger numbers decimated this year and forecasts that it will be years before they recover
The UK nationals were happy with their government who took an initiative to evacuate their stranded citizens
Pre-tax profits were hit by an exceptional charge of 1.3 billion euros due to overhedging of its fuel and foreign currency needs for the rest of 2020
While more than half of UK companies are expected to apply for government grants to pay furloughed employees, critics say they expect too much of the cash to go where it's not needed.
The number of confirmed infections rose by over 25,000 in a day.
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The 2002-2003 SARS outbreak, 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak and the 2016 Zika outbreak were not pandemics since they did not impact as many people as Coronavirus despite spreading in more than one country
That set a new speed record for subsonic or slower than the speed of sound commercial aircraft to fly between the two cities, according to Flightradar24, which tracks global flights
The airline said it remains willing to return to talks with the British Airline Pilots Association
The strike is the latest setback for British Airways, which in August suffered its third major computer failure in little more than two years
The British Airways indicated that the strike would cost the airline up to GBP 40 million a day
In September 2008, British Airways suspended all its flights to Pakistan because of security fears after a blast outside the Marriott Hotel that claimed more than 40 lives
British Airways has launched an urgent investigation into the data breach which involved 380,000 bank cards
The thefts occurred during a data breach that affected bookings made on the airline's website between August 21 and September 5, parent International Airlines Group
Indian passenger, identified as AP Pathak, complained that he and his family were discriminated against on racial lines
Heathrow-bound flight subsequently went through a check, took off 4 hrs later
Some 75,000 passengers were affected by the computer system outage over a holiday weekend
Reports say British Airways could face a bill of at least £100 million pounds due to disruption