British Airways to acquire Boeing’s Gatwick MRO hangar facility

British Airways has announced it is to acquire the Boeing (BA) hangar facility and MRO business at Gatwick in a move that will secure jobs at the site and expand BA’s presence at this key airport. It will ultimately benefit BA customers by bringing additional skills, expertise and facilities into the business which will help to support the BA operation. This transaction sees the airline create a new wholly-owned engineering subsidiary called British Airways Engineering Gatwick, BAEG, which will join BA’s existing engineering operations in South Wales, BAEW, and Glasgow, BAMG. The colleagues employed by Boeing who work at the facility will, subject to an employee information and consultation process, be transferred to the new subsidiary in Q2 of this year.