British Airways

[FR8364]

Vueling has removed from schedule all its flights from/to LHR (LHR-LCG, LHR-BIO & LHR-FLR routes) for next Summer Season 2014 (although they were put for sale a few weeks ago). Some rumours about BA will take over these routes. Does anyone know anything about this?

British Airways' LHR-ALC route also seems to be cancelled from next 29MAR 2014

Maybe IAG is preparing something new for SS14...

[adfly]

Or could Vueling be moving the operation over to LGW in exchange for some more slots for BA at LHR?

[wallp]

I was a bit surprised to see Mykonos, Porto & Thira being added to the LHR schedule. These all seem well suited to LGW but LHR? Seems a strange set of route choices when slots are seemingly in such shirt supply.

Vueling to LGW seems a good move if true.

[VickersVicount]

Its just taking advantage of lot weekend slots for some of the routes and for Mykonos and Santorini converting some existing regular weekend charters

[BAladdy]

BA have made a number of changes to it's S14 schedule in recent days. Below are a list of the changes made to the LHR longhaul and LHR and LGW shorthaul schedule for S14:

Further changes are likely over the coming weeks

Longhaul Changes

Frequency Increases

Austin - 5 times a week service will increase to daily from 3 May.
Chennai - Will increase from 5 to 6 x weekly
Entebbe - Flights retimed and will increase from 3 to 4 x weekly
Freetown/Monrovia - Flights will be retimed from a late evening departure to mid afternoon and will increase in frequency from 3 to 4 x weekly.
Hyderabad - Will increase from 6 x weekly to daily
New York (JFK) - Will increase from 8 to 9 x daily

BA181 LHR 18:55 JFK 21:55 / BA180 JFK 07:15 LHR 18:55 777 D

Seattle - Will increase from 10 to 11 x weekly
Seoul - Will increase from 5 x weekly to Daily

Frequency Decreases

Johannesburg - Will reduce from 17 x weekly ( 2 x daily 747 and 3 x weekly 777) to 2 x daily (6 x weekly A380 and 8 x weekly 747).
Los Angeles - 2 x daily A380 service replaces the 3 x daily 747 service operated for most of S13
Newark - Will reduce from 3 x daily to 20 x weekly. BA185/BA184 will not operate day 6.
Toronto - Will reduce from 17 x weekly to 16 x weekly. Flights will be operated 9 x weekly on a 747 and daily on the 787.
Washington - BA265/BA264 rotation will be reduced from daily to 4 x weekly. A 4 class 777 will replace a 3 class 767 on this rotation.

Aircraft Changes

Accra - A Mid-J 747 will replace a 4 class 777 daily. 10 x weekly frequency introduced for W13 will continue with a 3 class 767 continuing to operate 3 x weekly.

Jeddah - A 4 class 777 will replace a 3 class 767 from S14. First class will for the first time in sometime be available on this route.
Moscow - A 2 class Midhaul A321 will replace a 3 class 767 daily on the BA235/BA234 rotation and on the BA237/BA236 rotation on day 2.
Tel Aviv - Flights will transfer to T5 and operate 2 x daily. A daily 4 class 777 will replace the 2 class A321 on the BA163/BA162 rotation. The 6 x weekly A321 BA167/BA166 rotation will be dropped for S14.

LHR Shorthaul Changes

NEW for S14

Malaga - New 2 x weekly

BA454 LHR 15:55 AGP 19:50/BA455 AGP 20:50 LHR 22:35 319 5
BA454 LHR 16:00 AGP 19:55/BA455 AGP 20:55 LHR 22:40 319 7

Faro - New 2 x weekly

BA508 LHR 16:15 FAO 18:45/BA507 FAO 19:45 LHR 22:15 319 67

Mykonos - New 2 x weekly seasonal service (Ops from 3rd May to 20th September only)

BA650 LHR 11:10 JMK 16:55/BA651 JMK 17:55 LHR 19:50 320 2
BA650 LHR 11:45 JMK 17:30/BA651 JMK 18:30 LHR 20:25 320 6

Oporto - New 2 x weekly service

BA506 LHR 15:35 OPO 17:55/BA505 OPO 18:55 LHR 21:15 319 47

Santorini - New 2 x weekly seasonal service (Ops from 4th May to 21st September only)

BA652 LHR 11:45 JTR 17:40/BA653 JTR 18:40 LHR 20:40 320 37

Frequency Increases

Aberdeen - Increases from 8 x daily to 9 x daily
Basle - Increases from 3 to 4 x daily
Ibiza - Increases from 2 to 4 x weekly
Palma - Increases from 2 to 5 x weekly
Rome FCO - Increases from 7 to 8 x weekly
Zurich - Increases from 41 to 42 x weekly

Frequency Decreases

Frankfurt - Reduced from 49 to 48 x weekly
Lyon - Reduced from 27 to 3 x daily
Manchester - Reduced from 68 to 67 x weekly
Newcastle - Reduced from 40 to 39 x weekly
Rotterdam - Reduced from 19 x weekly to 2 x daily
Stuttgart - Reduced from 2 x daily to 13 x weekly

Routes Suspended

Agadir - Route suspended as of the 29th March. S13 flights operated 2 x weekly
Alicante - Route suspended as of the 29th March. S13 flights operated 2 x weekly

LGW Shorthaul Changes

NEW for S14

Malta - Flights will operate daily from 30th March 2014. BA suspended this route back in 2009

Frequency Increases

Catania - Increases from daily to 8 x weekly from 27th April 2014
Dubrovnik - Increases from Daily to 8 x weekly
Faro - Increases from 8 x weekly to 2 x daily
Jersey - Flights will increase to operate up to 6 x daily. Flights op up to 5 x daily S13.
Larnaca - Increases from 3 to 5 x weekly .
Marrakech - 2 extra flights a week operate through S14.
Naples - Increases from 2 x daily to 17 x weekly
Paphos - Increases from 4 to 5 x weekly
Salzburg - Increases from 4 to 5 x weekly

Route Suspended

Tunis - Flight suspended from start of W13 schedule. Will continue to be suspended for S14.

Further changes are likely over the coming weeks

[dochealth]

BA 787 YYZ

sitting at gate yyz about 1 hour after baggage handlers put dent in brand new 787...bloody hell...

[dochealth]

787 YYZ

Just home after lengthy delay YYZ. 787 finally declared safe to operate BA 96 after 6 hours of consultation between Boeing and BA engineers. Uneventful flight home. Kudos to captain and crew for successfully keeping us slf in thé loop throughout.

will post impressions of dreamliner when I get time
DH

[chrisy08]

On British Airways 'Manage Booking' and it says about reserving or selecting a seat for the flight... It shows the layout of the plane and the seats I can select and it's showing 50 rows to the back in Economy, which when I Look at the aircraft plans - it appears to be 777-300 woohoo!! Now I'm excited about this, I just want to know if these layouts are accurate or whether it just a guide?

Cheers

[Peter47]

Do any insiders have news on Tokyo services for next summer? I understand that BA were awarded slots at HND but the online timetable shows few changes over this summer.

[Cyrano]

Originally Posted by chrisy08

On British Airways 'Manage Booking' and it says about reserving or selecting a seat for the flight... It shows the layout of the plane and the seats I can select and it's showing 50 rows to the back in Economy, which when I Look at the aircraft plans - it appears to be 777-300 woohoo!! Now I'm excited about this, I just want to know if these layouts are accurate or whether it just a guide?

Cheers

So you're asking whether the seat plan shows the seat configuration on the aircraft type in question? What would be the purpose of "just a guide" if it did not correspond to reality? It may not be utterly precise and to scale in the sense of being able to calculate your legroom by counting the pixels between rows in the seat-plan graphic . Most seat-selection seat plans do not accurately depict window positions relative to seat rows. But the seat plan should certainly be entirely accurate in terms of seat row numbers, numbers of seats in each row, location of monuments etc.

[chrisy08]

Supposed to be funny? Doesn't work... I just wanted to know if the seat plan/number of rows is accurate on the plan... Simple! Douchebag

[pwalhx]

It will be the seat plan for the aircraft they anticipate operating the route as of today, there is always the possibility of a late change.

[Skipness One Echo]

I just wanted to know if the seat plan/number of rows is accurate on the plan...

If this is the same seat plan they take money from people in choosing your seats then yes, it is accurate as you might expect when buying a seat.

[MKY661]

Does anyone know how long BA intend to keep the 737-400's for? Another one (G-DOCH) has just been WFU

[VickersVicount]

They'll all be gone by 2015

[pallan]

Hi,

Travelling on BA 177 LHR-JFK next February and looked at the seating plan to see what plane we are on and it is 50 rows which a 77W isn't it?

I thought the only flight to JFK on a 77W was BA179? Anyone know if 177 is a 77W or is this an error on the seating plan?

Thanks

[SWBKCB]

see posts 50 and 52 above...

[mathers_wales_uk]

G-STBH left Cardiff this evening for entry into service

[BFS BHD]

Yep G-STBH on way to SIN atm

[yotty]

G-DOCH.

A/C departing on 07Nov13 via keflavik, Goose Bay, Chicago to Victorville.