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British Airways is to continue to operate a limited schedule until August 2020 at the earliest.
If your flight is cancelled you are entitled to a full refund. However, you will need to call BA to obtain a refund as this cannot be done on the website.
All passengers due to travel up to 31 August 2020 have the flexibility to change their booking free of charge or exchange the value of their ticket for a voucher. This can be used as payment towards a new booking for travel up to and including 30 April 2022. More details of this policy are at ba.com
Passengers can check the status of their bookings using the Manage My Booking tool on ba.com
Here are the main changes up to the end of July. These are subject to change at short notice. Any destination not yet operating with a given start date should be intepreted on an “at the earliest” basis. Realistically, it’s not possible to have firm visibility more than two weeks’ ahead.
BA is likely to confirm plans for August from mid-July. Also note that some cancelled flights are still showing an airport websites. BA is also operating a number of cargo-only flights which may show up on some websites under their regular flight numbers.
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London Heathrow
All BA flights are operating from Terminal 5.
Due to the temporary closure of Terminals 3 and 4, BA’s Oneworld alliance and partner airlines, except for American Airlines and Iberia, have relocated to Terminal 2.
Check-in opens at the later time of 05:30. Fast Track security is closed. BA has reopened some of its Heathrow lounges from Saturday 4 July. A number of cafes and coffee shops have reopened for takeaway service only.
The food and beverage service on all flights has been reduced. Here are details of the service for all cabins.
London Heathrow – UK Domestic
BA is currently flying to Aberdeen, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester.
Flights to Inverness and Newcastle return on 16 July. BA’s new route to Newquay launches on Friday 24 July.
BA has permanently suspended Leeds Bradford.
London Heathrow – Short-Haul Europe
In July, BA reinstates a number of year-round and summer seasonal routes to mainland Europe.
Routes with at least, or near, daily flights include:
Amsterdam, Athens (from 16 July), Barcelona, Berlin Tegel, Bologna, Brussels (from 16 July), Budapest (from 16 July), Copenhagen, Dublin, Hamburg (from 16 July), Istanbul (from 16 July), Lisbon, Madrid, Milan Malpensa, Munich, Nice, Paris Charles De Gaulle, Prague (from 17 July), Rome Fiumicino, Stockholm, Toulouse (from 9 July)
Routes with less than daily flights include:
Basel (from 16 July), Billund (from 17 July), Dusseldorf (from 16 July), Geneva, Gibraltar, Gothenburg (from 9 July), Hannover (from 16 July), Krakow (from 10 July), Larnaca, Marrakech (from 16 July), Marseille, Oslo (from 9 July), Pisa, Reykjavik (from 18 July) Sofia (from 16 July), Valencia, Vienna (from 17 July), Warsaw (from 10 July), Zagreb (from 9 July), Zurich (from 10 July)
Returning summer seasonal routes include:
Corfu (from 17 July), Crete (from 16 July), Dalaman (from 17 July), Faro, Ibiza, Kalamata (from 18 July), Malaga, Mykonos (from 17 July), Olbia (from 18 July), Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Preveza (from 18 July), Pristina, Rhodes (from 18 July), Santorini (from 16 July), Split (from 9 July), Zakynthos (from 18 July)
Year-round routes not yet returning in July include:
Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Lyon, Milan Linate, Moscow Domodedovo, Stuttgart
Summer seasonal routes not yet returning in July include:
Bastia, Bodrum, Brindisi, Figari Sud-Corse Corsica, Kefalonia, Ljubljana, Pula
BA has suspended summer seasonal routes to Montpellier, Nantes, Perugia, and Podgorica until 2021.
BA has permanently suspended flights to Beirut and Moscow Sheremetyevo.
Due to local requirements, temperature checks are in place for all passengers flying to Italy. A health declaration must also be completed at check-in.
London Heathrow – Long-Haul
Long-haul routes operating with reduced frequencies are Boston, Chicago O’Hare, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Miami, New York JFK, Singapore, Tokyo Haneda and Washington Dulles.
BA plans to resume the following long-haul routes in July:
Dallas Fort Worth – Thursday 16 July
Dubai – Friday 17 July
Seattle – Thursday 23 July
Toronto – Thursday 16 July
BA has also suspended summer seasonal routes to Calgary and Charleston until 2021.
Buenos Aires has been suspended until Tuesday 1 September at the earliest.
The launch of Portland has also been postponed until Wednesday 2 September at the earliest.
Flights are being operated with Airbus A350-1000, Boeing 787, Boeing 777-200 and Boeing 777-300 aircraft. Boeing 747-400 and Airbus A380 aircraft are not operating scheduled passenger flights.
London Gatwick – Long Haul
BA currently plans to resume the following long-haul destinations at Gatwick from July:
Barbados – Saturday 18 July
Bermuda – Monday 20 July
Kingston – Monday 20 July
St Lucia – Saturday 25 July
Antigua – Saturday 1 August
Punta Cana – Sunday 2 August
Cancun – Monday 3 August
New York JFK is suspended until Sunday 25 October. Lima and Toronto will not return until summer 2021.
London Gatwick – Short-Haul
Short-haul flights will not resume at London Gatwick until September 2020 at the earliest.
BA has transferred many short-haul routes from Gatwick to Heathrow for July and August 2020 including:
Alicante, Bari (from 1 August), Bilbao (from 22 July), Bordeaux (from 1 August), Cagliari (from 23 July), Catania (from 1 August), Dubrovnik (from 16 July), Funchal (from 18 July), Genoa (from 1 August), Jersey, Kos (from 18 July), Lanzarote (from 1 August), Malta (from 3 August), Menorca (from 15 July), Naples (from 20 July), Paphos (from 18 July), Porto (from 16 July), Salzburg (from 1 August), Seville from 15 July), Tenerife (from 18 July), Thessaloniki (from 18 July) and Verona (from 17 July).
Flights on overlapping routes such as Dalaman, Faro, Ibiza, Palma and Rhodes have also transferred to Heathrow.
Some short-haul routes have not transferred to Heathrow. Flights to Gran Canaria and Milan Bergamo have been suspended until late October 2020. Flights from Gatwick to Antalya will not resume until summer 2021. Almeria has been permanently suspended.
At present, only the North Terminal at Gatwick is open. The South Terminal, where BA normally operates, is closed.
London City
BA’s service to the Isle of Man, operated by Loganair, resumed on Sunday 21 June.
BA will shortly resume a limited route network from London City. Flights to Florence, Ibiza and Palma de Mallorca resume from Friday 10 July. Flights to Dublin, Glasgow and Edinburgh resume from Monday 20 July.
BA has suspended London City – New York JFK until 1 September 2020 at the earliest.
Africa
BA’s franchise partner Comair which operates flights within Africa has suspended all flights.
It does not expect to resume flights until 1 November 2020. The airline is in a business rescue process which may have long term implications for its status as a BA franchise.
Other Airport Changes
All BA lounges outside of Heathrow Terminal 5 are closed.
Alliance & Codeshare Partners
BA’s main alliance and codeshare partners continue to operate skeleton schedules at London Heathrow.
American Airlines is currently flying from London Heathrow to Chicago O’Hare, Dallas / Fort Worth, Miami and New York JFK. It will relocate to Heathrow Terminal 5 from Tuesday 7 July.
It plans to resume flights to Boston, Charlotte, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Raleigh-Durham from late October 2020.
Finnair is flying from London Heathrow to Helsinki twice daily.
Iberia continues to fly from London Heathrow and Madrid. Iberia will resume long-haul flights from Madrid in July.
Japan Airlines continues to fly from London Heathrow and Tokyo Haneda.
Qatar Airways continues to fly from London Heathrow to Doha.