HARMONDSWORTH, England,
June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
British Airways' winter 2012 schedule, beginning on October 28, 2012, has been unveiled, with UK
regions set to benefit thanks to parent company IAG's purchase of
bmi.
The airline will add extra frequencies and use bigger aircraft
on flights to Scotland enabling it
to offer nearly 27,000 more seats a week between London and Scotland. This includes two extra flights a
day between London Heathrow and Edinburgh and two extra flights per day
between Heathrow and Aberdeen.
In addition British Airways is also starting a three-per-day
service between London City and
Aberdeen on September 24 to connect the two business
hubs.
From December 9, British Airways
will start four flights per day between Heathrow and Leeds
Bradford, connecting Yorkshire with the airline's extensive global
route network at Heathrow and
increasing consumer choice in the North of England. The airline has already taken over
bmi's six daily flights to Belfast, and will be launching a new
timetable of seven flights a day between London and the Northern Irish capital on
October 28.
A new London City to
Isle of Man route has also
recently launched.
At the time of EU approval for the bmi deal, IAG committed to
launching new flights to important trading nations and delivering
on that, British Airways is to begin flying six times a week to
Seoul in South Korea from December 2, 2012.
Brand new, three times a week Las Vegas flights from London
Gatwick start on October 29.
In Europe, Zagreb in Croatia will benefit from new daily flights to
Heathrow from December 9 and six flights a week to Venice will be added to the London City route network on September 17. Customers looking for holidays in
Barcelona will benefit from more choice with a new three-per-week
service from London Gatwick to Barcelona will launch on February 23, 2013.
From October 28, former bmi routes
from London Heathrow to Agadir, Bergen and Stavanger will become
new British Airways routes from Terminal 5, while former bmi routes
to Belfast and Hanover will become new British Airways
Terminal 1 routes.
British Airways aircraft and crew will operate these routes, and
customers will receive the full-service airline's on-board
experience.
A number of existing British Airways routes including
Basel, Dusseldorf, Luxembourg, Lyon and Toulouse will move from Terminal 5 to
Terminal 1 on October 28.
There will be an increase in frequencies in winter 2012 (versus
winter 2011) from Heathrow to
Aberdeen (from six to eight
flights per day), Edinburgh (from
10 to 12 flights a day), Manchester (from 10 to 11 flights a day),
Oslo (from four to five flights
per day), Zurich (from six to
seven per day) and Phoenix (from
six to seven flights per week). Flights to Bologna will be
consolidated at Heathrow, with an
increase in frequency on the existing Heathrow service from seven per week to 21 per
week.
At Gatwick, services will
increase to Faro (from four to five flights per week), Malaga (from
seven to ten flights per week) and Marrakech (three to seven
flights per week) from October 28,
and extra services will be added to Salzburg and Turin for the winter ski season. Flights to
Marseille will move from
Gatwick to Heathrow on October
28.
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