British Airways - 2

[easyJet A321]

Don't know whether this has been posted on here somewhere before or some of you have seen it, it's a clip of the production of BA's new B777-300ER YouTube - Introducing our new Boeing 777-300ER (BA posted the link on Twitter).

[parky747]

More BA Mergers!

Anyone think BA may increase its stake it flybe? Perhaps we could see the return of BA in the regions, though operated as flybe and maybe in BA livery?

[LD12986]

I think any future deals by International Airlines Group are likely to be with carriers outside the UK.

Aside from other fellow alliance partners, TAP has been mentioned in the press as a potential target. Air Berlin has also been mentioned to help boost Oneworld's presence in Western Europe.

I guess there may also be some Star Alliance members that could be persuaded to jump ship.

[Spitfire boy]

Air Berlin to join oneworld

Announced 26 July. Brings back memories, remember deutsche BA, which became dba and was then acquired more recently by Air Berlin. Interesting to see if the AB long haul flights survive within oneworld or whether BA-IB funnell all the west bound taffic via LHR and MAD. Malev must be feeling unloved now ;-(

[Denti]

One might say Air Berlin is returning to BA, after all nearly all of the domestic network of Air Berlin was developed and funded by BA in the first place.

[johnnychips]

Billund?

I was at MAN today and a lovely little two engined jet in BA colours arrived. The guy next to me said it was from Billund in Denmark. I thought BA was only doing Heathrow and Gatwick, so what was that all about?

[cornishsimon]

johnnychips

that would be the BA franchise operator sunair, they operate routes under the BA brand:
Sun Air of Scandinavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[DutchBird-757]

Talking about Scandinavia;

British Airways is to add the Danish capital Copenhagen to its growing number of routes from London City airport, with flights starting on September 12.

The new double-daily weekday service (with one flight from LCY on Saturdays, and one from Copenhagen on Sundays) follows BA’s announcement last week of a twice-daily route from the central London airport to Gothenburg.

The Copenhagen service will be plied by BA’s new Embraer 170 aircraft, and will compete with Danish carrier Cimber Sterling on the route. BA already serves Copenhagen from London Heathrow, as does Scandinavian carrier SAS. Other services between London and Copenhagen include Easyjet from Gatwick and Stansted, and Norwegian Air Shuttle from Gatwick.

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The complete timetable up until the end of October is not yet fully loaded. However the W10/11 timetable is as follows:


BA8466 CPH 07:15 LCY 08:15 E70 1 2 3 4 5 - 6
BA8468 CPH 16:35 LCY 17:35 E70 1 2 3 4 5 - 7


BA8465 LCY 08:45 CPH 11:45 E70 1 2 3 4 5 - -
BA8467 LCY 18:05 CPH 21:00 E70 1 2 3 4 5 - 7

All flights will operate using one of BACF's 76 seater E170 aircraft. The flights will offer both a Club Europe and Euro Traveller Service.

The route is currently served by Cimber Sterling (QI) 1 x Daily using a ATR42-500. The new BA flights are scheduled to depart CPH and LCY before the current QI flights. The flights will also be 20 mins faster on BA compared to QI.

BACF also seem to be trying to under cut QI on price by offering a lead in one way fare that is over 25GBP cheaper than the lowest QI fare.

[MUFC_fan]

Is there a reason why searching for flights down under, BA often bring up flights via LAX rather than BKK/HKG/SIN etc?

Have they always done this?

[johnnychips]

Billund

Thanks Simon

[LD12986]

Is there a reason why searching for flights down under, BA often bring up flights via LAX rather than BKK/HKG/SIN etc?

Have they always done this?

I think it's a recent change to ba.com. When you search for flights it also brings up flights on partner airlines as well as BA operated/codeshare flights.

[thebeehive]

why dont BA give up @ LGW?

Fair enough times are hard for airlines but EZY were big anyway at LGW then swallowed up GB - and they announce new routes all the time, just announced LGW-LXR. EZY are growing fast at LGW nad making BA look tiny and taking up any possible short haul opportunities!

doesnt help with BA's short haul fleet of old 737's either, anything past PFO/ADB/AYT is too far which excludes quite a few opportunities, give up BA ezy have won hands down

[CabinCrewe]

BA have a nice expandinf Long Haul network (where the money is)- with more to come. What EZY do is up to them, but is unlikely to influence what BA do at Gatters

[jerboy]

why dont BA give up @ LGW?

Because, just perhaps... they may actually be making (or forecast to be making) a bit of money there? Why else would they be staying?

Yes EZY have expanded significantly over the past few years... but with >50% of flights delayed it doesn't seem to have happened very smoothly does it?

LGW has a large catchment area in the SE of England with many high value pax (ie Gold/Silver) knocking around. Do you think they pay EZY the £300-400 return for the fully flexible ticket up to EDI? No, they pay BA. That's where BA actually wins... They (in general, of course) pick up the high value passengers, where as EZY carry the high volume, low yielding bunch. And of course EZY's punctuality statistics have been nothing less than s of late.

I have no doubt that if LHR were big enough, BA would quite gladly dump LGW and let it turn a lush shade of traffic-cone orange. But, the reality is, it isn't. BA need a smaller hub to ferry pax into and BA LGW will continue to exist as long as this is the case.

PS: 'thebeehive': Ex GB employee with a bit of a grudge?

[Skipness One Echo]

Long haul clearly has a future at Gatwick, I wonder about short haul though. Unless we see real evidence that the B737-400 fleet is to be replaced, and a business case can be made for that much capital investment at easyJets biggest base, on an ever contracting short haul network, the jury will remain out.

[thebeehive]

PS: 'thebeehive': Ex GB employee with a bit of a grudge?

Nope, I dont work for Easyjet, it was simply an observation.

I do agree EZY's summer @ LGW has been a joke, will the people who flew them this summer realise their mistake next summer?

[ATIS]

I keep hearing that EZY are trying very hard to secure additional slots, eg Luxor, Tel Aviv, Cairo etc. This in turn will require additonal airframes.

Now, the majic number I am hearing is 50 airframes based at LGW, and the North Terminal can be painted orange. North will then be solely used by EZY. BA will have to relocate to South and the new stands being built in Crawley. Well the new stands are pretty far.

So whats the EZY current tally?

[Welshtraveller]

Catania - Gatwick

Why is today’s flight from Catania to Gatwick over 24 hours late?

Did BA provide hotels for the passengers?

[firstchoice7e7]

Just had my LGW-GLA flight cancelled for tomorrow morning. I called them and they said there was a technical problem. I would imagine thats why the Catania is late as well.

[jerboy]

BA have had a few problems this weekend with the 737 fleet. One stuck tech in each CTA and GLA (hence the cancelled flights). The impression I get is that shorthaul LGW is very much on a knife edge: If everything goes to plan its hunky dorey, but there's little spare capacity for when a couple of aircraft have problems, which seems to be happening more often with the 734s.

Did BA provide hotels for the passengers?

I think its safe to assume they didn't leave 150 people to sleep in the airport all night!