Ben Clatworthy
Transport and Travel Correspondent at The Times
Travel Contributor at Times Radio
Transport and Travel Correspondent, @TheTimes 👨🏻💻 Also on @TimesRadio 📻
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3 days ago |
thetimes.com | Ben Clatworthy
There’s no extra legroom — but you do get a divider so there’s no fighting over the armrest — and you don’t even get the smug satisfaction of turning left on short-haul single-aisle planes. Yet at British Airways (BA) business-class short-haul is going gangbusters. Sean Doyle, the airline’s chief executive, said the premium cabin had “defied our best expectations”. Sean Doyle, chief executive of British AirwaysHe said: “After the global financial crisis in 2008, people were saying it wouldn’t work.
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4 days ago |
thetimes.com | Ben Clatworthy
The way bosses at Heathrow dealt with the fire shutdown of the airport reveals just how arrogant they are, the former boss of British Airways has said. Willie Walsh, now director general of the airline trade body International Air Transport Association (Iata), said he was staggered by the response to the incident in March. He said executives at Europe’s busiest airport “don’t see any failure on their part” and make no effort to communicate with passengers in times of disruption.
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4 days ago |
thetimes.com | Ben Clatworthy
Economy class on planes is stuck in the 1990s and has suffered from years of underinvestment, the president of Emirates airline has said. Sir Tim Clark said airlines had been too focused on business and first class while neglecting other passengers. Speaking at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) conference in Delhi, he said: “Could we make the economy seats a lot more comfortable with more features, functionality and products?
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5 days ago |
thetimes.com | Ben Clatworthy
Flights will be quicker and passengers will face fewer delays under plans for the biggest overhaul of UK airspace since its creation. Ministers will announce the creation of an Airspace Design Service to redraw the routes planes must take when flying in an attempt to make it more efficient and reduce the number of air traffic control delays carriers face.
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5 days ago |
thetimes.com | Ben Clatworthy
Executives at Heathrow were “caught short and floundering around” when the airport was shut down for almost 20 hours in March due to a massive power cut. The chiefs of Emirates and Virgin Atlantic hit out at the handling of the crisis by Europe’s busiest airport. Last week it emerged that the airport’s chief executive was asleep at home when the decision to shut Heathrow was taken, and colleagues could not reach him because his phone was on silent.
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