British Airways plans to add the Airbus A380 back into its fleet in
November as it prepares to operate its biggest flight schedule since
March 2020.
Following the news that the US would allow non-citizen travellers
from Europe and the UK to enter in early November, British Airways
initially will fly the A380 on short-haul routes to allow for crew
service familiarisation followed by operating to Miami and Los Angeles
in the US, as well as Dubai in December.
The
airline is set to fly to 23 US airports this winter with up to 246
flights a week. In addition to restarting services, BA will increase
frequencies to New York, initially to five a day followed by eight in
December.
British Airways also will operate double-daily services to Boston,
Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Dallas, Miami and
Toronto, as well as daily flights to Philadelphia, Phoenix, Seattle,
Atlanta, Denver, Houston and Vancouver.
In October and November, British Airways will restart services to
Austin, Orlando, Tampa, San Diego, Las Vegas and Baltimore. The carrier
has also increased flights to a number of short-haul destinations,
including Marrakech, Morocco, and Dalaman, Turkey, and will launch
flights to Antalya, Turkey.
It will restart services to Innsbruck, Grenoble and Salzburg in
December, while operations from either Heathrow or Gatwick to Barbados,
Antigua, St. Lucia, Maldives and Mauritius will be extended over the
Christmas period.
Elsewhere, British Airways said it will increase year-round flights
to European cities with 48 weekly services to Amsterdam, 33 to Geneva,
35 to Dublin, 28 to Milan and 21 each to Berlin, Paris and Rome.
Subsidiary British Airways CityFlyer is expected to operate a
schedule of 43 weekly flights to Edinburgh, 33 to Dublin, 25 to Glasgow,
18 to Belfast, 16 to Amsterdam, 15 to Rotterdam, 15 to Berlin, 12 to
Frankfurt, 12 to Dusseldorf and 11 to Zurich, all from London City
Airport. The airline is also set to launch a new route from Belfast to
Birmingham and from London City and Southampton to Salzburg.
British Airways lounges are also reopening, with customers welcomed
back to its Concorde Room in London and New York in September. Lounges
in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and Houston are expected to reopen
this week.
Source: Travel Weekly