British Airways postpones resumption of flights.Byline: Mohammed Rasooldeen RIYADH: British Airways British Airways in full British Airways PLC International passenger airline based in London. In 1936 British Airways Ltd. was founded through the merger of three smaller airlines. (BA) has postponed the resumption RESUMPTION. To reassume; to promise again; as, the resumption of payment of specie by the banks is general. It also signifies to take things back; as the government has resumed the possession of all the lands which have not been paid for according to the requisitions of the law, and the of its flights to the Kingdom from March 29 to May 31. The airline announced in November last year that it was resuming flights to Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. and introduced promotional fares.
According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a statement issued yesterday, the United Kingdom's flagship carrier revealed that the process of setting up two new stations in the country has taken longer than originally envisaged. "Saudi Arabia is an important market for British Airways and we are keen to ensure the service we offer our customers meets the high levels we know they expect," the statement said. All customers booked to travel between March 30 and May 31 on BA's Riyadh and Jeddah services will be offered full refunds or the chance to rebook re·book v. re·booked, re·book·ing, re·books v.tr. 1. To book again. 2. To change a booking for (a performance or reservation). v.intr. once services commence. The airline will fly five times a week from both Riyadh and Jeddah to Heathrow Terminal 5. BA will be flying to Riyadh a Boeing 777 and to Jeddah a Boeing 767. The airline suspended its services to Saudi Arabia in March 2005 due to poor commercial performance on the route. At the time, the airline was operating seven flights a week to the Kingdom - four to Jeddah and three to Riyadh. It was one of the oldest airlines operating to Saudi cities and had been flying to the Kingdom since 1930. Announcing the re-launch of the flights to the Kingdom in November, Robert Boyle, British Airways' commercial director, said, "Resuming these flights makes commercial sense. The oil market is increasingly important globally and inward investment Inward investment is the injection of money from an external source into a region, in order to purchase capital goods for a branch of a corporation to locate or develop its presence in the region. into Saudi Arabia has risen considerably in the last couple of years. We can start these flights now because the aviation market between Britain and Saudi Arabia has recently been liberalized." Copyright: Arab News 2009 All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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