Thanksgiving travel is financially stressful to those who are flying to celebrate the holiday with family and friends. With surcharges, baggage fees and even a fee for seat reservation, the price of a ticket is just the beginning when it comes to paying the price for holiday travel. However, there are ways to avoid some of these these fees.

Thanksgiving is just weeks away and if you're traveling by plane and don't have a ticket yet, prepare yourself. There are going to be more fees, including an airline surcharge for traveling on the busiest days surrounding the upcoming holidays -- including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's. High fares plus added airline surcharges are all adding up to expensive travel for many this holiday season.

The Unite union will announced the result of their strike action ballot on December 14 which could mean the earliest day for a strike by British Airways workers could be December 21. A strike at this time will cause chaos for holiday travelers. Nearly 14,000 British Airways cabin crew could walk out on strike just 4 days before Christmas.

British Airways wants you to have more control over your seating options when you book a flight with them. However, it's going to cost you. Starting October 7, British Airways will charge passengers who choose a specific seat in advance.

British Airways has increased its percentage ownership of Iberia, the Spanish airline, up to 13.15% from the 10% it already owned.

British Airways Plc predicts the fall of its profit margin in the coming fiscal year because of record fuel costs and a slowing economy.

Inbound British Airways passenger jet lands short of runway at London's Heathrow Airport. BA flight 38 from Beijing, China, touched down several hundred meters short of the airport's south runway, close to a perimeter road, with its emergency chutes deployed.

Britain's largest air carrier - British Airways - has placed its biggest aircraft order in nearly a decade. For VOA, Tom Rivers in London says it spells good news for both European and U.S. manufacturers.

The US District Court for the District of Columbia has approved the August 1st plea agreement between British Airways and the Department of Justice (DoJ) on fines of $300 million for infringements of competition law in the company's longhaul passenger and cargo businesses.

British Airways PLC and Korean Air Lines Co. LTD. agree to plead guilty and pay criminal fines totaling $600 million for fixing prices on passenger and cargo flights.

In May 2007, passenger capacity, measured in Available Seat Kilometres at British Airways, was 0.1 per cent below May 2006. Traffic, measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres, was lower by 2.1 per cent. This resulted in a passenger load factor down 1.5 points versus last year, to 73.3 per cent.

BMED, the independent franchise partner of British Airways, operating flights between Yerevan and London Heathrow, was awarded the Outstanding Service Award at the 25th Anniversary of the OAG Airline of the Year Awards, the world's premier airline accolades, in recognition of the efforts of its Beirut staff for efforts above and beyond the call of duty during the Lebanon war last year.