Originally Posted by
fl dutchman
I see the very erratic BA LHR service over the next few months has begun. Noticed that the fares are extortionate on many flights. Over £350 economy "single" on lots of journeys where seats are available, not just in the coming days but coming months.
So is this due to a shortage of seats or something else ?
BA cut the flights to Newcastle to free up aircraft to offer an expanded schedule from Gatwick due to the acquisition of the Monarch slots and not having enough aircraft to operate those flights so Heathrow based aircraft along with Titan and Eastern operating the schedule from there. The smaller schedule has meant demand has increased for the remaining flights pushing the flights up into higher price brackets, which is good for yield to BA. However less flights and erratic schedule unfortunately just start a cycle of people not booking because they don’t have flights they want to then a reduction in passenger numbers which then reduces the flights even more.
The schedule is showing stable at 5 flights a day during the winter and at present it’s showing 6 flights for Summer 19 but they won’t have finalised summer 19 yet so it be interesting to see what happens.