British Airways has unveiled details of its planned network changes for next year's implementation of the US-Europe open skies policy.
From March 30th 2008, the airline's current flights from
Gatwick Airport to
Dallas Fort Worth and
Houston will move to
Heathrow Airport, while service frequencies between Heathrow and
New York,
Seattle and
Washington and from Gatwick to
Orlando will increase.
Flights between Heathrow and
Detroit will be suspended from the same date, with services between Gatwick and
Algiers moving to Heathrow and
flights to Warsaw shifting from Heathrow to Gatwick.
"We're taking advantage of the opportunities provided by open skies to further enhance our market leading network from London to the US," commented Robert Boyle, commercial director for
British Airways.
"Next summer, we will offer our customers 41 daily flights to 18 destinations across the US."
Other changes revealed by British Airways included the launch of a new daily service between Gatwick and
Genoa on April 4th 2008 and an amendment to its Harare service from Heathrow.
From October 28th this year, these British Airways flights will be re-routed to fly via Johannesburg, where franchise partner Comair will pick up passengers to finish the journey to
Harare.
The airline said in a statement that the suspension of these direct flights is due to commercial reasons.
Posted by Clare at 10:37, 20 September 2007