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British Airways Suspends Flights At London City Airport

British Airways is to temporarily suspend all flights from London City airport from Monday 23 March 2020.

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British Airways Embraer E170, Airbus A318 aircraft, London City airport (Image Credit: British Airways)

British Airways is to temporarily suspended operations at London City airport.

BA has previously suspended its all business class service to New York JFK until September 2020.

The airline has also suspended all short-haul flights operated by its subsidiary BA CityFlyer from Monday 23 March to Saturday 4 April 2020.

Passengers whose flights have been cancelled will be re-accommodated on alternative services from London Gatwick and Heathrow.

Passengers should receive an e-mail to advise that they have been automatically rebooked.

In theory, passengers are also entitled to a refund as their original flight has been cancelled. However, if you try to do this on ba.com you will be offered a voucher for redemption against a future booking.

Passengers can check the status of their booking using the Manage My Booking tool on ba.com. If you need to contact BA, telephone numbers are on this page of ba.com

All airlines are asking passengers not to contact them unless they are due to travel within the next 72 hours.

A very large number of BA short-haul flights have been cancelled outside of the dates above, and this is likely to continue until June at the earliest.

Given how fast moving events are with Coronavirus, further cancellations, and indeed airport closures, are possible.

Update Wednesday 25 March

London City Airport plans to temporarily close to commercial and private flights until the end of April 2020.

British Airways Launches London City – San Sebastián

British Airways has launched a new summer seasonal route from London City to San Sebastian.

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La Concha Bay, Monte Igueldo, San Sebastián (Image Credit: British Airways)

British Airways has launched a new summer seasonal route from London City Airport to San Sebastián in the Basque Country region of Spain.

BA will fly from London City to San Sebastián twice weekly on Monday & Friday from Friday 10 July 2020 to Friday 4 September 2020.

Flights will be operated with Embraer E190 aircraft in a two class Club Europe business class and Euro Traveller economy configuration.

This will be the only direct service to San Sebastián from London. BA already serves San Sebastián indirectly through an onward codeshare from Madrid on Air Nostrum. It is of course possible to mix and match London airports, albeit with an element of backtracking. Bilbao airport (served by BA from Gatwick) is also around 100km from San Sebastián.

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London City – San Sebastián

Flight BA7335 Depart London City 09:15 – Arrive San Sebastián 12:10 (Monday)
Flight BA7335 Depart London City 09:10 – Arrive San Sebastián 12:10 (Friday)

Flight BA7334 Depart San Sebastián 13:30 – Arrive London City 14:25 (Monday, Friday)

British Airways Suspends London City – Paris Orly

British Airways has suspended London City – Paris Orly from Friday 31 May 2019.

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BA CityFlyer Embraer Aircraft at London City airport (Image Credit: British Airways)

British Airways has suspended its route from London City to Paris orly from Friday 31 May 2019.

The route currently operates up to three times daily. It transferred from London Heathrow to City two years ago. This will mean there is now no direct route from any London airport to Paris Orly, nor any direct route from London City to Paris.

Passengers whose flights have been cancelled are entitled to a full refund.

Alternatively, passengers can be accommodated on alternative BA services between London Heathrow and Paris Charles de Gaulle. However, any consequential costs such as ground transportation will be at your own expense.

Affected passengers should contact BA or their travel agent.

BA Launches London City – Split

British Airways is to launch a new three times weekly summer seasonal route from London City to Split.

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British Airways is to launch a new summer seasonal route from London City to Split, Croatia.

The airline will fly to Split three times weekly from Friday 21 June 2019 to Friday 6 September 2019. Flights operate on Monday, Thursday and Friday.

Flights will be operated with an Embraer aircraft in a two class, Club Europe and EuroTraveller, configuration.

This will complement BA’s existing daily summer seasonal service from London Heathrow which operates from Sunday 28 April 2019 to Friday 25 October 2019.

It is of course possible to “mix and match” London departure and arrival airports if that is convenient.

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London City – Split

Flight BA7337 Depart London City 14:55 – Arrive Split 18:30 (Monday, Thursday)
Flight BA7337 Depart London City 14:10 – Arrive Split 17:45 (Friday)

Flight BA7336 Depart Split 19:20 – Arrive London City 20:55 (Monday, Thursday)
Flight BA7336 Depart Split 18:30 – Arrive London City 20:05 (Friday)

Experience Virgin Australia Business Class At London City

British Airways is wet leasing an Embraer E190 aircraft at London City, previously operated by Virgin Australia.

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EI-GHK Embraer E190 Business Class (Image Credit: Virgin Australia)

Opinions have always been divided on whether business class on intra-European flights is worth it.

However, in the case of BA from London City, the general consensus it isn’t.

There’s no lounge at London City. The seating configuration is the same as economy. And, due to the overall number of seats being capped at less than 100 for industrial relations reasons, there is relatively generous leg room in economy.

However, there is now one aircraft where business class is at least a tangible improvement. Some time ago BA announced a wet-leasing agreement with Stobart Air to provide additional capacity at London City.

The first aircraft, registration EI-GHK, entered into service this weekend. The aircraft used to be operated by Virgin Australia.

It does benefit from a separate business class cabin. It comprises two rows, each with three seats in a 1-2 configuration. Passengers also benefit from more generous leg room of 38 inches.

There is of course a certain irony in a BA flight operating with a cabin from a Virgin branded airline.

So far it has operated to Milan and Rotterdam. There’s no way of predicting exactly on which routes the aircraft will operate. And there’s a less than 5% chance of it being on your flight. However, if it is you should see the seat map below immediately before your flight:
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British Airways launches London City – Munich

British Airways will fly from London City to Munich up to three times daily from 16 February 2019.

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St. Maximilian Church and River Isar, Munich (Image Credit: British Airways)

British Airways is to launch a new route from London City to Munich.

The airline will fly to Munich up to three times daily from Saturday 16 February 2019. Flights will be operated with Embraer E190 aircraft.

This will be the only direct flight from London City to Munich. The BA press release specifically refers to one BA corporate client Siemens welcoming the route, which suggests they may have provided guarantees to secure the route.

BA is also due to launch a new route from London City to Rome from November. These new routes are enabled by the addition of four new Embraer aircraft and further route announcements are expected. Full details of BA’s route network at London City is available at ba.com

Here is the timetable. As BA also flies from Heathrow to Munich up to 7 times daily it is of course possible to “mix and match” London departure and arrival airports, if that is convenient.

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London City – Munich

Flight BA3291 Depart London City 08:10 – Arrive Munich 10:55 (Monday – Saturday)
Flight BA3293 Depart London City 13:50 – Arrive Munich 16:35 (Monday – Friday, Sunday)
Flight BA3295 Depart London City 18:40 – Arrive Munich 21:25 (Monday – Friday, Sunday)

Munich – London City

Flight BA3292 Depart Munich 06:45 – Arrive London City 07:40 (Monday – Saturday)
Flight BA3294 Depart Munich 12:20 – Arrive London City 13:25 (Monday – Friday, Sunday)
Flight BA3296 Depart Munich 17:15 – Arrive London City 18:10 (Monday – Friday, Sunday)

BA promises expansion at London City beginning with Rome

British Airways is promising a major expansion at London City airport with a new six times weekly route to Rome and 4 additional Embraer aircraft in 2019.

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BA CityFlyer Embraer at London City Airport

British Airways has today, Wednesday 29 August 2018, signalled a commitment to a significant expansion at London City.

It is to launch a new route from London City to Rome from Sunday 11 November 2018. Flights will operate six times weekly with Embraer E190 aircraft.

The airline is to also acquire an additional four Embraer E190 aircraft in 2019. This will increase the number of aircraft based at the airport from 22 to 26. It is presumed that these aircraft will either be leased or acquired second hand as BA had allowed options for new aircraft from Embraer to expire.

This news comes just one day after CityJet announced it is withdrawing scheduled flights from the airport and is handing over its route to Dublin to Aer Lingus.

In terms of possible new routes, BA has previously suspended a number of routes at London City. These include Alicante, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Hamburg and Madrid. LOT is also due to launch Budapest and Warsaw in early 2019. TAP has also recently launched Lisbon and Porto.

As London City is closed for part of the weekend, it is likely these these new aircraft will also be used to launch new winter and summer seasonal routes from Stansted and other UK regional airports at weekends.

Full details of BA’s current route network at London City are available at ba.com
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BA transfers Paris Orly route from London Heathrow to City

British Airways is to transfer its route from London Heathrow to Paris Orly to London City from Sunday 29 October 2017.

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British Airways is to transfer its route from London Heathrow to Paris Orly to London City airport from Sunday 29 October 2017.

Currently, BA flies from London Heathrow to Paris Orly up to four times daily. This will reduce to three times daily from 30 September 2017 with BA334 and BA335 cancelled from this date. The last flights will operate on Saturday 28 October 2017. BA will continue to fly from London Heathrow to Charles de Gaulle airport up to seven times daily.

BA will fly from London City to Paris Orly three times daily on weekdays and daily on weekends. This route will reinstate a link between London City and Paris after CityJet suspended this route in March of this year.

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BA launches London City – Prague and Reykjavik

BA will fly from London City to Prague and Reykjavik from Sunday 29 October 2017.

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BA is to launch two new routes from London City airport to Prague and Reykjavik from Sunday 29 October 2017.

BA will fly to Prague daily, except Saturdays and to Reykjavik twice weekly on Thursdays and Sundays on a winter seasonal basis until late March 2018.

Flights will be operated by Embraer aircraft in a two class, Club Europe business class and EuroTraveller economy configuration.

These will complement BA’s existing services from London Heathrow and it will be possible to “mix and match” the two London airports if that is convenient.

BA flies between London Heathrow and Prague up to four times daily. BA currently flies between London Heathrow and Reykjavik four times weekly which will increase to twice daily from 29 October 2017.

BA has also announced that its route between London City and Granada will become a summer seasonal service only.

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BA launches Milan from London City & Stansted from late April 2017

British Airways will fly to Milan Linate from London City & Stansted from late April 2017.

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The merry go round of route changes at London City and BA’s gradual increase of weekend services at London Stansted continues with the launch of new year-round services to Milan, Italy from these two London airports in April.

The new routes to Milan’s Linate Airport will start from London City Airport on Monday 24 April 2017 and from Stansted Airport on Saturday 29 April 2017.

There will be two flights a day on week days and one a day at weekends from London City and two a week from Stansted.

Flights will be operated using Embraer aircraft in a two class Club Europe business class and EuroTraveller economy configuration. Note that at some point in the summer, BA will introduce its Buy On Board “M&S On Board” catering service on these flights.

BA also flies to Milan Linate (as well as Malpensa airport) from London Heathrow up to six times a day and it is possible to “mix and match” flights if convenient.

The addition of this route at London Stansted means BA now serves nine routes at this airport: Berlin, Faro, Florence, Geneva, Ibiza, Malaga, Nice, and Palma.

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Here’s the initial timetable at launch:
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