British Airways is the largest airline at London City and London Heathrow airports. It also has a presence at London Gatwick.
It is a subsidiary of International Airlines Group which also owns Aer Lingus, Iberia and Vueling who all have a presence in London.
BA is also a member of the Oneworld alliance. It operates joint businesses from London with American Airlines and Japan Airlines.
British Airways has launched a summer seasonal new route from Gatwick to Vancouver.
British Airways has launched a new route from London Gatwick to Vancouver.
BA will fly from Gatwick to Vancouver from Friday 19 May 2023. Flights will operate daily, except on Tuesdays.
This will complement BA’s existing year round service between Heathrow and Vancouver. This normally operates with an Airbus A380 during the peak season, but this has not been scheduled yet for 2023.
Continue reading “British Airways Launches Gatwick – Vancouver”Overnight bag drop is now available at both Heathrow Terminals 3 & 5, but only for flights departing before 10:00 the next day.
British Airways has, for many years, offered an overnight bag drop facility at London Gatwick and Heathrow Terminal 5.
This allows passengers to check in and drop off their bags the night before their flight. The service was reinstated post COVID-19.
There have been a few recent changes to the timings of the overnight bag drop facility and rules for checking in bags for passengers not present.
Continue reading “British Airways Overnight Bag Drop Changes”BA has suspended London City – Luxembourg from 30 October 2022.
British Airways has suspended its route from London City to Luxembourg.
The route, which only launched in March of this year, is suspended from Sunday 30 October 2022.
All flights have been taken off sale from this date.
BA will continue to serve Luxembourg from London Heathrow.
Passengers whose flights are cancelled can be rebooked on to BA services between Heathrow and Luxembourg. Alternatively, you are entitled to a full refund.
Continue reading “British Airways Suspends London City – Luxembourg”British Airways will fly to Aruba and Georgetown, Guyana in the summer of 2023.
British Airways will fly from London Gatwick to Aruba and Georgetown, Guyana in summer 2023.
BA will fly to Queen Beatrix International Airport on the island of Aruba twice weekly on Thursday & Sunday from 26 March 2023. This operates as a “tag on” to existing flights from Gatwick to Antigua.
A constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Aruba is located 18 miles north of the Paraguaná Peninsula of Venezuela.
The airline will also fly to Georgetown, Guyana twice weekly on Monday & Thursday from 27 March 2023. The service to Cheddi Jagan International Airport also operates as a “tag on” on BA’s service from Gatwick to Saint Lucia.
Continue reading “British Airways Launches Gatwick – Aruba & Georgetown”BA flights will arrive & depart from Terminal C, Orlando International Airport, from Wednesday 21 September 2022.
BA flights between London and Orlando will arrive and depart from Terminal C at Orlando International Airport from Wednesday 21 September 2022.
BA is one of ten airlines due to move into the new terminal in September.
Aer Lingus will transfer the day before on Tuesday 20 September.
Continue reading “British Airways Moves To Terminal C At Orlando Airport”BA has reinstated winter seasonal short haul routes from Gatwick to Geneva, Lyon and Salzburg.
British Airways has relaunched a number winter seasonal routes from London Gatwick airport.
BA will return to Salzburg from Monday 31 October 2022 until Saturday 25 March 2023.
The airline will also return to Geneva and Lyon from Saturday 3 December 2022 until Saturday 25 March 2023.
Existing routes to Amsterdam, Dubrovnik, Malaga, Marrakech, Nice, Tenerife and Verona are also extended into the winter season.
Continue reading “British Airways Adds Winter Seasonal Routes At Gatwick”British Airways and its parent company IAG have returned to profit for the first time since COVID-19.
BA’s parent company International Airlines Group released its half year results today, Friday 29 July 2022.
BA reported its first operating profit since COVID-19 with a profit of £54 million for the second quarter of this year. At a group level IAG made an operating profit of €293 million.
Again, BA’s recovery from COVID-19 lags that of other IAG airlines. BA’s capacity measured by Available Seat Kilometres was around 30% less than the same quarter in 2019. This compares to 13% for Iberia. Passenger revenue was also 27% less at BA, compared to 4% less for the same quarter at Iberia.
Premium leisure revenue has recovered to around 85% of 2019 levels. Premium business revenue has recovered to around 60% of 2019 levels. Again, this lags Iberia.
Continue reading “British Airways’ 2022 Half Year Results”British Airways parent company has ordered more short haul aircraft from Airbus.
BA’s parent company International Airlines Group has ordered more short haul aircraft.
IAG has today, Thursday 28 July, ordered 37 A320neo family aircraft from Airbus.
It has exercised 12 options from a previous order. IAG has also placed a new order for 25 aircraft.
These will be delivered between 2025 and 2028 and will be used to replace existing Airbus A320ceo aircraft.
IAG has also acquired options for 50 more aircraft. If these are exercised, the aircraft will be delivered between 2028 and 2030.
IAG will decide closer to the time which airlines in the group will receive them, as well as the split between Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft.
As with existing new Airbus A320 family aircraft the configuration will be standardised so aircraft can move around the group.
Continue reading “IAG Orders More Airbus A320neo Aircraft”British Airways will relaunch winter seasonal flights from London Gatwick to Cape Town from 13 December 2022.
British Airways has relaunched its winter seasonal route from London Gatwick to Cape Town.
The route returns for the first time since COVID-19 on Tuesday 13 December 2022.
Flights will operate three times weekly until Saturday 25 March 2023.
Flights depart Gatwick on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday, with the return flights from Cape Town the following day.
Extra flights to Cape Town are welcome. Though for Club World passengers you should be guaranteed to have BA’s Club Suite on a flight between Heathrow and Cape Town. Whereas at Gatwick, you are guaranteed to have BA’s old Club World cabin.
According to BA’s latest schedule updates, it will add a second daily flight from Heathrow to Cape Town on 20 November.
Sadly, following the demise of its franchise partner Comair, BA does not offer local flights within South Africa. BA does have an interline agreement with AirLink and South African Airways.
Continue reading “British Airways Relaunches London Gatwick – Cape Town”British Airways will operate the Boeing 777-300 aircraft on London – Singapore – Sydney from Sunday 30 October 2022.
British Airways is updating its long haul schedules at London Heathrow for the winter travel season.
This runs from Sunday 30 October 2022 to Saturday 26 March 2023. These changes are preliminary. Some have only been applied to the start of the season and may extend further.
Unsurprisingly, the general trend is capacity reduction.
There will be more changes to come. This particularly for Hong Kong due to travel restrictions and Tokyo due to the closure of Russian airspace.
Continue reading “British Airways Heathrow Long Haul Winter Schedule Changes”