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International Airlines Group, the parent of British Airways, took full control of Spanish low-cost airline Vueling this week. See the Bloomberg story here. The cost was €123m to take IAG’s stake to 91%. There are some interesting nuances here. Unlike Iberia, which is bleeding cash like [...]
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If you didn’t take part this time, don’t worry as I will be re-running this feature in the Summer. Feel free to expand on or critique my [...]
Vueling is an airline you may not have heard of. It is a semi-low-cost carrier partly owned by Iberia, operating across Europe. British Airways, as we know, does not operate any flights from outside London. However, Vueling runs a few routes from Cardiff (Alicante, Barcelona, [...]
(This is Lesson 4 in the ‘Avios Redemption University’ series, aimed at answering the eternal question – ‘What is the best Avios redemption?’. Links to the three earlier articles on upgrading with Avios, redeeming on Aer Lingus and redeeming for hotel rooms can be found here.) [...]
I have been running a few posts to show people how they can travel from the regions via Avios, using BA partner airlines. I have already looked at routes on Vueling here and here. Sun-Air of Scandinavia is a low profile BA franchise airline running [...]
Business Traveller reports that Iberia’s sister company Vueling is launching flights from Cardiff to Malaga from April 2013. This is in addition to their services to Alicante and Barcelona. There was also a Cardiff to Palma route operating in 2012, but it is reported that [...]
I have written a few posts recently about Reward Flight Saver flights, where BA or Iberia caps your ‘taxes and charges’ fee at £27 return for economy, £34 return for business or £40 for First. (Click on ‘Reward Flight Saver’ under ‘Categories’ below to see [...]
(EDIT: See also this post from September 2012 about the launch of Cardiff to Malaga) BA is often known as ‘London Airways’ to its detractors, and for good reason. For a number of years now, BA has not operated a single flight from a UK regional [...]
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