British Airways has reopened its lounge at Milan Linate airport following a light refurbishment.
Flights to Milan Linate airport have resumed today, Sunday 27 October 2019, following a period of closure due to runway maintenance works.
BA has taken the opportunity to use the period of closure to undertake a “refresh” of its lounge airport.
The refreshed lounge has now reopened with new furnishings with at seat power and improved complimentary catering.
BA will fly from London Gatwick to Milan Bergamo six times weekly from 1 September 2019.
British Airways is to launch a new route from London Gatwick to Milan Bergamo.
BA will fly from Gatwick to Milan Bergamo (Orio al Serio International Airport) six times weekly, excluding Saturdays, from Sunday 1 September 2019. The airport is located approximately 60km away from Milan city centre.
Flights will operate year round. As tends to be par the course for BA at Gatwick flight times vary by day.
BA already flies from London City to Milan Linate and from London Heathrow to Milan Linate and Milan Malpensa. It is of course possible to “mix and match” airports if convenient. Milan Linate airport is due to close for three months from 27 July to 27 October 2019 for runway repair work.
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British Airways is cancelling some seasonal weekend routes from London Stansted and reducing frequencies on others.
For the past three summers, British Airways’ subsidiary BA CityFlyer has run seasonal weekend routes from London Stansted.
The reason for this is that London City is closed for part of the weekend. Instead of leaving its fleet of Embraer aircraft sit idle, some are positioned to Stansted airport.
Routes from Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester soon followed. However, there are now signs that BA CityFlyer is scaling back its ambitions.
All routes from Birmingham and Bristol have been suspended for next summer. BA CityFlyer has also scaled back its ambitions at Stansted. Some routes have been cancelled. Others have been cut in frequency. There are similar changes at Manchester.
Here’s a quick precis of known changes as at Sunday 21 October 2018. Further changes may be announced in the coming months.
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A number of trade unions representing employees of Alitalia are due to take industrial action on Thursday 23 February 2017.
As a consequence, approximately 60% of Alitalia’s domestic and international flights are cancelled on Thursday 23 February and there are further cancellations Friday 24 February.
These include the following flights between London Heathrow and London City Airports and Milan and Rome.
Please note that these are pre-planned cancellations. There may well be additional cancellations due to severe weather in the U.K. caused by Storm Doris. In addition, some airport ground facilities in Italy may also be affected by industrial action.
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British Airways will fly to Milan Linate from London City & Stansted from late April 2017.
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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As part of Etihad’s acquisition of a 49% stake in Alitalia, it will also acquire five London Heathrow airport slot pairs and lease these back to Alitalia.
After a long period of negotiation, Etihad has finally announced a deal to acquire a 49% stake (the maximum allowed under EU ownership rules) in troubled European airline Alitalia.
Full details of the transaction can be viewed here.
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