British Airways forecasts a busy Easter

British Airways anticipates carrying almost 700,000 passengers over the forthcoming Easter holiday.

The airline expects Monday 6 April to be its busiest day, with 142,000 people set to fly with it.

Sunday April 12 is expected to be the busiest for return journeys with 135,000 passengers booked to fly.

Top destinations this Easter are to the USA with New York, Miami and Los Angeles leading the way.  Other popular destinations include Tel Aviv, Boston, Hong Kong, cape Town & Dubai.

For short haul travellers, Edinburgh is the most popular, followed by Barcelona, Amsterdam, Glasgow & Rome.

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Improved performance from Qantas

Australian Airline Qantas has just announced that it has returned to profit for the first quarter of financial year 2015.  

The CEO says that the company is on track with its plans to return to consistent profitability, and that results can be seen in increasing passenger numbers, operating efficiencies and cost reductions.

The company is in the process of rationalising its aircraft fleet so that in future it has just one type of narrow body and one type of wide body jet in operation resulting in lower maintenance and related costs.

Qantas also identifies its Asian market as being one of the largest and one in which they intend to be strong.

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