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Monday, 05 June 2017

Times Online

• BA owner’s board ‘does not get IT’ [subscription]The owner of British Airways is facing criticism for not having enough board-level IT expertise after a computer glitch disrupted the journeys of about 75,000 passengers and cost the company an estimated £150 million.

City AM

• British Airways in talks with Capita to offload call centres in Manchester and NewcastleBritish Airways is in talks with Capita to outsource two of its call centres in Manchester and Newcastle in a bid to cut costs.
• Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary's paper profit from share options tops £40m after low-cost airline's shares soarRyanair boss Michael O’Leary is sitting on a potential €50m (£44m) paper profit following the airline’s shares soaring last week.
• Heathrow airport eyes a series of "viaducts" over the M25 as a simpler solution to its £17bn third runwayHeathrow Airport is considering plans to construct its third runway across a series of “viaducts” that would cross above the M25.

Mail Online

• BA set to lose its four-star quality rating In a new humiliation, the boss of research firm Skytrax said the UK's flagship carrier British Airways now compares unfavourably with the state-backed Russian airline.

This is Money

• Heathrow plan to build bridges to support third runway The plan, presented at an engineering conference, will see one bridge support a stretch of the two-mile runway while two thinner bridges would support taxiways for planes.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Security is top priority says airport's new bossTHE new chief executive of Leeds Bradford Airport has reassured passengers safety is paramount after the Manchester terror bombing and a bomb scare at the site itself.

Other Regional Press

• Oxford Airport evacuated after 'suspicious item' foundPOLICE evacuated Oxford Airport after the discovery of a 'suspicious item'.