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British Airways Delays Restart Of Routes At London City

British Airways has postponed to relaunch of many short-haul routes at London City Airport.

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BA Embraer E170 London City Airport (Image Credit: British Airways)

As the UK government continues to play whack-a-mole with quarantine restrictions on inbound travellers, hopes of an orderly return to short-haul travel in Europe have been dashed.

BA’s subsidiary BA CityFlyer is currently operating a limited schedule from London City Airport.

This includes routes to Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The airline is also operating summer seasonal routes to Bergerac, Florence, Ibiza, Mahon, Nice, and Palma de Mallorca.

Seasonal routes to Mykonos, Quimper, San Sebastian, Santorini, Skiathos and Split are not operating this year.

BA CityFlyer had planned to reinstate many year-round routes from late August and early September. These have now been pushed back. The earliest dates for these routes are:

Amsterdam – Monday 5 October 2020

Berlin Tegel – Monday 7 September 2020

Dusseldorf – Monday 21 September 2020

Frankfurt – Monday 7 September 2020

Geneva – Sunday 4 October 2020

Milan Linate – Sunday 25 October 2020

Munich – Sunday 4 October 2020

Prague – Sunday 4 October 2020

Rome Fiumicino – Sunday 4 October 2020

Rotterdam – Sunday 4 October 2020

Venice – Monday 5 October 2020

Zurich – Monday 7 September 2020

British Airways Suspends London City – New York JFK

British Airways has permanently suspended its all business class service to London City airport to New York JFK.

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British Airways Airbus A318 Aircraft, G-EUNA (Image Credit: British Airways)

British Airways has permanently suspended its all business class service from London City to New York JFK.

This was expected following the announcement by BA’s parent company International Airlines Group that it plans to withdraw its Airbus A318 fleet.

The route was suspended in March 2020 and was due to return from late October 2020. It has now been withdrawn from BA’s timetables entirely.

Passengers whose flights have been cancelled are entitled to a full refund. Alternatively, passengers can be rebooked on alternative American Airlines and BA services to New York from London Heathrow.

BA has suspended flights from London Gatwick to New York JFK and these are provisionally due to return from late October 2020.

In light of market conditions and IAG’s decision to take into account environmental considerations when planning new routes it is unlikely that BA will launch a similar service again.

New York JFK was the only long-haul route from London City airport. Start-ups such as Odyssey Airlines have expressed a desire to launch all business class routes from London City. These are unlikely to succeed without guaranteed support from corporate customers and business travellers who can be lured away from frequent flyer programmes of rival airlines.

What happens to BA’s fleet of two Airbus A318 aircraft isn’t clear. One is leased to Titan Airways. Both aircraft have been provided as security for a $750 million loan which means BA can’t sell or scrap them until the loan is repaid in May 2021.

BA CityFlyer Resumes Flights At London City Airport

British Airways will progressively reinstate flights at London City airport throughout the summer.

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

British Airways has resumed scheduled passenger flights at London City airport.

BA’s subsidiary BA CityFlyer restarted flights early today, Friday 10 July, after a hiatus of more than three months.

Flights BA8483 and BA8463 departed London City for Palma de Mallorca and Ibiza shortly before 07:30, to be followed this morning by flights to Malaga and Florence.

This is the start of the progressive resumption of most of BA’s route network at London City throughout the summer.

BA’s Flight Plan At London City

BA will resume flights from London City to Dublin, Glasgow and Edinburgh from Monday 20 July.

This will be followed by Nice on Saturday 1 August, Bergerac on Sunday 2 August and Mahon on Monday 3 August.

BA will also launch a new route to Belfast City airport on Tuesday 1 September.

BA does not currently plan to resume flights to Amsterdam, Berlin Tegel, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Milan Linate, Munich, Prague, Rome Fiumicino, Rotterdam, Venice and Zurich until late August / early September.

Summer seasonal routes to Mykonos, Santorini, Skiathos and Split do not appear to be operating this year. The planned launch of San Sebastian has been postponed.

BA has suspended London City – New York JFK until Sunday 25 October 2020 at the earliest.

As far as other airlines at London City concerned, Eastern Airways is flying to Teesside. Loganair is operating flights to Dundee and the Isle Of Man (as a wet lease for BA).

KLM plans to resume Amsterdam on Monday 13 July. Lufthansa will resume Frankfurt on Monday 7 September.

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 until mid July 2020 at the earliest.

Passengers whose flights have been cancelled will be re-accommodated on alternative services from London 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 August at the earliest.

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

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.

Flights are on sale now at ba.com

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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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.

Flights are on sale now at ba.com

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.

Flights are on sale now at ba.com

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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