British Airways is to introduce flat beds on mid-haul flights as well as launching new routes from Heathrow to Alicante and Rotterdam.
Following its acquisition of bmi, it will launch a three flights a day to Rotterdam on Decmeber 9 and three flights a week to Alicante from October 28.
However, the airline is dropping bmi’s flights to Dammam (from September 16), Bishkek and Khartoum (from October 1), Yerevan (from October 13) and Amritsar and Casablanca (from October 28) due to poor passenger numbers.
British Airways’ services to Cairo and Moscow will continue as normal, though bmi’s flights to the cities will cease from September 5 and October 12 respectively due to restrictions on the number of flights the airline is allowed to operate to both destinations.
From September 16, bmi’s Riyadh and Jeddah services will also stop as BA already serves these routes.
From the end of October BA will operate a new timetable for former bmi routes to Almaty, Amman, Baku, Beirut and Freetown. Tbilisi, which will become a direct flight, will also move over to become British Airways routes from October 13.
BA’s flights to Gibraltar will increase from seven to nine flights a week from October 28, with additional services operating on Saturdays and Sundays.
The airline will also take over bmi’s flights to Dublin.
The Tel Aviv route will increase from 14 to 20 services per week from October 28. From the new year, revamped A321s will exclusively fly the route, offering customers the World Traveller (long-haul economy) and Club World with its fully flat bed.
The changes will be amended on ba.com in stages over the next few days and the airline recommends customers re-check ther flighs to ensure they have the latest timing and terminal details.
By Linsey McNeill
