GB Airways

Advantages: On-line check in for some airports, good prices if you are flexible on travel times, comfortable planes, free food and drinks
Disadvantages: Flexible check-in means greater chance of mislaying luggage, inflexible in respect of changes, food a little iffy

...flight was actually operated by GB Airways as a franchise under the BA Banner. WHO ARE GB AIRWAYS? Starting life in the 1930’s as a privately owned firm, Gibraltar Airways, British European Airways (now BA) took a 49% stake in the company in the 1940s and relinquished it in 1995 when GB Airways became a BA franchise operator. With 900 employees, 13 planes, (10 Airbus 320’s and 3 Airbus 321’s), all sporting the BA Livery, they fly to 29 European ...
...chosen departure airport, which, for GB Airways will be Gatwick, Heathrow or Manchester (from Summer 2005). However, once on the site, you can book any flight through BA and associated partners. GBs full list of destinations can be found on their website. Once you know where you want to go, enter the number of travellers, (up to a maximum of 6), the type of flight, i.e. economy, club class, business etc and away you go. The website will provide ... Read review

Advantages: Prices, Lovely Staff, Full service included
Disadvantages: None

GB Airways is a franchise of British Airways. They have BA flight numbers, check-in desks, aircraft livery, service standards and membership of the Oneworld Global Airline Alliance. Just like flying on the ‘real’ BA you can earn and redeem miles and points and have all the benefits of Executive Club membership. They currently fly to 28 locations in the Mediterranean and North Africa from Heathrow and Gatwick airports. A new base in Manchester is ...
...encouraged me to apply to GB Airways and told me how much they enjoyed their jobs. Sadly I’ve just been offered a fantastic new job so I had to decline…maybe one day though when I’m sick of office work and want a new challenge! Time: The flight departed and landed on time although we had to wait 10 minutes at Malaga for the aircraft steps to be attached. We were then taken by bus to the terminal. Code sharing: As BA is part of the Oneworld Alliance ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent food and service, comfortable plane (if it works)
Disadvantages: Replacement plane not as good and late in arriving

I flew GB Airways, for the first time, on a holiday to Gibraltar booked through an online travel agent. I did not have much of a choice of who to fly with as the only other airline was Monarch and that would have cost £10 more! I found out that GB Airways fly planes on their own routes under the British Airways brand so although they are an independent operator they are backed by a larger company. The journey out from Gatwick was an early morning ...
...real change to your "typical" airline food. I cannot directly comment on the price as it was booked with hotel accommodation but that was a bargain so it cannot be that bad. Overall, I was very impressed and will fly with GB Airways again (if I get the chance). ... Read review

Advantages: Quality of British Airways!, Great on-board service!.
Disadvantages: Pretty expensive as only recognised airline company which flies to Gibraltar!

GB Airways is a company set up in Gibraltar which controls most flights between England to South Spain and North Africa. GB Airways is a franchise from British Airways so everything is of their standards. The meals where slightly poor on the morning flights but the return meals in the afternoons where a lot better than expected!. I take regualr flights between Gatwick and Gibraltar. I have never ever been late on arrival, only slight delays on take-off. ...
...into many regardless of space!. However, GB Airways is the only company with high reputation that flies to Gibraltar but so if it's quality you're looking for, GB Airlines is the one to choose. However if it's price, then Monarch Airlines offers a cheaper flight and from Luton Airport!. ... Read review

Advantages: Friendly people, cheap food, great atmosphere, hot!
Disadvantages: perhaps too touristy, and will become more so in time

...of an evening if we wished. We were able to find out anything we needed about the apartment or the surrounding area in just a quick phone call, and the owner also arranged for some food to be in the apartment ready for our arrival. Last Wednesday my boyfriend and I set off from Gatwick on a GB Airways (subsidiary of BA) flight to Paphos. We had flown with GB Airways before and to be honest, they weren’t our first choice of airline. (On a flight to Austria we had to turn around half way there because the plane hadn’t been de-iced properly and then had to sit in Gatwick for 6 hours waiting for another plane to be ready! For a 4-day holiday we didn’t really appreciate losing a day!) However, on this occasion we didn’t really have a lot of choice. Paphos Airport is relatively small, with currently only two runways (I am told that they are probably... Read review

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Advantages: Can be cheap, wide variety of destinations and routes, online booking, friendly cabin crew
Disadvantages: Can be pricey, no frills, not so good check in experience, out of town airports

...As a former easyJet Cabin Crew Member I thought that I would write a review about easyJet and try to make it as unbiased as possible! About easyJet: EasyJet PLC is a short-haul low-cost airline established in 1995 by Stelios Haji-Ioannou and has come a long way from flying solely between Luton and Glasgow with two B737's leased from another airline. Today easyJet flies to 80 destinations and has 137 planes with a further 120 A319 planes on order. EasyJet bought out rival carrier Go in 2002 and in 2007 purchased the British Airways subsidiary GB Airways. They are very successful carrying 30 million passengers a year and made a record £129 million pounds before tax in the last financial year. EasyJet is 43% owned by members of the Haji-Ioannou family though unlike on the ITV series 'Airline' Stelios is no longer the main man... Read review

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Advantages: Speak English and use the pound - worth seeing just for the Rock and dolphins
Disadvantages: Not a lot more to do

...to offer a number of cheap packages (see my review “Peanuts for Gibraltar Monkeys” <http://www.ciao.co.uk/CityVacationsReview5358512>). They arranged the flights there and back via British Airways (see my review “Fly in a Jag (as long as it doesn't break down)!” <http://www.ciao.co.uk/GBAirwaysGBLReview5347758>) from Gatwick (see my review “Tale of a very long queue” <http://www.ciao.co.uk/LondonGatwickLGWReview5347760>) and 7 nights at the Rock Hotel. We did not book a car to hire as we read it was very small. Gibraltar itself is very peculiar – it is very British in character (red post-boxes and phone-boxes) but also has an added Spanish flavour. In fact, in some ways it was so British it seemed too out of the ordinary. They have Link cash machines so you can check your account balance as well as take your pounds out (as... Read review

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