British Airways has launched a summer seasonal new route from Gatwick to Vancouver.
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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”British Airways will fly to Aruba and Georgetown, Guyana in the summer of 2023.
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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”Iberia will transfer all flights from London Heathrow to Madrid from Terminal 5 to 3 from 12 July 2022.
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Iberia will move all flights between London Heathrow and Madrid from Terminal 5 to 3 from Tuesday 12 July 2022.
This follows the move of a large number of British Airways routes from Terminal 3 to 5 on the same date.
Iberia has operated from Terminal 5 for over ten years following its merger with BA. This was intended to facilitate connections to BA’s long haul network and have all BA & Iberia flights to Madrid in one terminal.
It’s not clear if this is temporary to make space to allow BA to have as many flights at Terminal 5 over the summer or a permanent move. Iberia flights are showing as staying at Terminal 3 during the winter season.
Continue reading “Iberia Moves All Heathrow Flights To Terminal 3”BA’s network of long haul routes at London Gatwick airport for summer 2022.
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The summer 2022 travel season will mark a return to near normal for BA at London Gatwick.
As well as restarting short haul flights, the airline will operate a substantial long haul schedule, albeit still smaller than before COVID-19.
Here are the main schedule changes for the summer season, which officially runs from Sunday 27 March to Saturday 29 October 2022.
Readers can keep up to date with network changes throughout the season on our dedicated page for London Gatwick airport.
All long haul flights at Gatwick are operated with Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, with three classes of travel offered. BA still has no plans to fit its Club Suite on Gatwick based aircraft.
Continue reading “British Airways Summer 2022 Long Haul Schedule At Gatwick”British Airways is to launch a new winter seasonal route from London Gatwick to Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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British Airways is to launch a new winter seasonal route from London Gatwick to Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Flights will operate twice weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 13 October 2020 until Easter 2021.
The route will be operated with a three class Boeing 777-200 aircraft.
It may seem unusual for the airline to launch a new route at a time of significantly reduced demand. However, it’s worth recalling that after the 2008 financial crisis, BA pivoted towards long-haul leisure routes and added a number of destinations at Gatwick such as Male and Cancun. There may also be an element of subsidy for this route.
Virgin Atlantic previously flew to Montego Bay from Gatwick and is due to restart the route from London Heathrow on Friday 2 October 2020. This move by BA will obviously put competitive pressure on Virgin Atlantic.
Continue reading “British Airways Launches London Gatwick – Montego Bay”Iberia will resume a limited long-haul schedule from Wednesday 1 July 2020.
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Iberia is to resume scheduled long-haul passenger flights from its hub at Madrid Barajas international airport in July.
Iberia will fly from Madrid to Chicago O’Hare, Havana, Miami, Montevideo, New York JFK, Panama City, San Jose Costa Rica, Santiago, Santo Domingo and Quito.
Frequencies will be very limited with most flights operating 1 -2 days a week. Outbound flights from Madrid will resume as follows:
Chicago O’Hare – One flight a week from Friday 3 July
Havana – One flight a week from Wednesday 1 July
Miami – Two flights a week on Wednesday and Sunday from 1 July
Montevido – One flight a week from Sunday 5 July
New York JFK – Two flights a week on Sunday and Tuesday from 4 July
Panama City – One flight a week from Thursday 2 July
Santiago – Two flights a week on Tuesday and Saturday from 4 July
Santo Domingo – Three flights a week on Monday, Thursday and Saturday from 2 July
San Jose, Costa Rica – One flight a week from Friday 3 July
Quito – Three flights a week on Monday, Thursday and Sunday from 2 July
Iberia will operate wide-body aircraft between London Heathrow and Madrid from Sunday 14 June 2020.
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One of the few reliable pleasures of short-haul travel is flying on a wide-body aircraft, instead of the workhorse of aviation in Europe, the Airbus A320 series.
Before Coronavirus brought aviation to halt, BA and Iberia operated wide-body aircraft daily between London Heathrow and Madrid, primarily for the benefit of shipping cargo. As did Finnair between London Heathrow and Helsinki.
As airlines reduced their passenger flight schedules to skeleton services, these flights were replaced with Airbus A320 series aircraft.
In a small sign of services returning to normal, Iberia will operate Airbus A330 and A350 aircraft between London Heathrow Terminal 5 and Madrid from Sunday 14 June 2020.
This is primarily for the benefit of cargo and travel restrictions for passengers arriving in both Spain and the UK remain.
More broadly, Iberia plans to resume short and medium-haul flights throughout July and August. Iberia plans to resume scheduled long-haul flights from Wednesday 1 July.
Continue reading “Iberia Reinstates Wide-body Aircraft On Heathrow – Madrid”International Airlines Group has announced it has ordered 6 Airbus A321XLR aircraft for Aer Lingus and 8 aircraft for Iberia.
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International Airlines Group has announced it has ordered 6 Airbus A321XLR aircraft for Aer Lingus and 8 aircraft for Iberia.
The first aircraft will be delivered from 2023. The group has also secured options for a further 14 aircraft, which could be used by any airline in the group.
This is a clear vote of confidence by IAG in the Airbus A321XLR aircraft.
IAG is now doubt attracted by is efficiency and commonality with the Airbus A320 series. It is noteworthy that IAG is keen to emphasise it will offer the same passenger comforts as existing wide body aircraft.
For both Aer Lingus and Iberia, IAG emphasise that the aircraft will be used to facilitate transatlantic expansion.
Continue reading “IAG Orders Airbus A321XLR Aircraft For Aer Lingus & Iberia”British Airways has suspended its route from London Gatwick to Fort Lauderdale from Saturday 7 September 2019.
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British Airways is to suspend its route from London Gatwick to Fort Lauderdale.
The last flights between Gatwick and Fort Lauderdale are scheduled to operate on Saturday 7 September 2019.
The route currently operates three times weekly. It launched in 2017 and, like BA’s now suspended route to Oakland, followed the launch of this route by Norwegian at Gatwick.
Norwegian has in the past month switched its Gatwick – Fort Lauderdale route to Miami International. This means London will have no direct link to Fort Lauderdale. This is a shame as Fort Lauderdale is a worthwhile destination in its own right and an alternative to what is a very unpredictable arrivals experience at Miami International.
Passengers whose flights have been cancelled are entitled to a full refund. Alternatively, passengers can be re-accommodated on American Airlines and BA services from Heathrow to Miami International. However, any additional costs such as ground transportation will be at your own expense.
American and BA will operate five joint daily flights between Heathrow and Miami from Sunday 27 October 2019.
Affected passengers should check the status of their booking at ba.com and contact either BA or their travel agent.
Update: BA has published guidance which adds that affected passengers can also choose to fly from Gatwick to Orlando or Tampa in Florida. Again, any consequential costs will be at passengers’ expense.
British Airways has suspended its route from London Gatwick to Oakland from Monday 22 October 2018.
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British Airways has confirmed it has suspended its route from London Gatwick to Oakland, California from Monday 22 October 2018.
The last flight will operate on Saturday 20 October 2018. The route launched in March 2017. Like the launch of Fort Lauderdale and New York JFK, it was a clear competitive response to the growth of Norwegian at London Gatwick. Norwegian will continue to fly to Oakland at Gatwick.
BA has not yet published any official guidance in response to the cancellation. However, if your flight is cancelled you are entitled to a full refund. Passengers are also likely to be offered the opportunity to change their flight to one of BA’s twice daily services from London Heathrow to San Francisco. Note that in this instance any consequential costs such as additional ground transportation would be at your own expense.
BA appears to be using the spare capacity arising from the suspension to make its summer seasonal route to Las Vegas year round.
Affected passengers should contact either BA or their travel agent.
Update: BA has since stated that the route will resume in Summer 2019 and the route is currently showing as scheduled to resume on Monday 1 April 2019.
Update (2): This route will now not resume in 2019.
Update (3): The last flight on this route will now operate on Saturday 13 October 2018.