Airlines rethink IT priorities as recession bites

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As Computing reveals a 30 per cent IT budget cut at British Airways, Angelica Mari investigates how IT decision-makers at the main UK carriers are responding to worsening market conditions

Despite cancelling a major ERP system rollout, BA will press ahead with an SAP implementation As the airline industry undergoes perhaps its most intense period of rationalisation, the sector’s te...

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