BRITISH Airways has revealed more of it's huge £7billion makeover plans. Announced earlier this year, the massive project is set to entirely overhaul the flag carrier. 4 British Airways' £7billion overhaul will make flights much easier to book Credit: Getty 4 The huge new revamp includes new seats, overhead lockers and lounges Credit: British Airways And this includes updating both the website and the app, which are often slammed for being difficult to use as well as going down .
British Airways CEO Sean Doyle compared the app changes to an "Amazon-style" system which allows passengers to book flights in just a few clicks. He told the Telegraph at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) airline summit that this upgrade was "very different" to anything else they have done, with the entire website scrapped and rebuilt from scratch. He explained: "It’s embracing technology in a way we haven’t done since the dot.
com boom and looking ahead at future proofing the business . “The website’s been around for 22 years. We were leaders in it many years ago and we’d improved it down through the years.
"But we’ve been falling behind and we need to catch up and leapfrog the rest." The new website is being tested for a number of passengers, with plans to roll it out further later in the year following positive feedback. Passengers flying from London Gatwick to Bari, Cagliari and Catania, as well as Montpellier in France and Turkey's Antalya can trial the website.
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