Welcoming in the winter schedule

The airline has increased flights to destinations, and added new routes such as Grenoble and Friedrichshafen for skiers, and Fuerteventura for those seeking winter sunshine. Those looking for sun also get extra flights from Gatwick to Florida and the Caribbean as well as a new direct flight to Punta Cana.

Customers flying from Heathrow to Mexico City will have the choice of an extra weekly flight. Short-haul travellers will have more reasons to visit Vienna and Berlin, with an extra daily service, while Munich has six more flights a week, Brussels and Dusseldorf three and Amsterdam, Barcelona and Copenhagen, on each.

Domestic services have been boosted with six extra flights a week to Glasgow, five more a week to Newcastle, and two each to Aberdeen and Manchester.

Terminal moves

The start of the winter season also sees three destinations move terminals at Heathrow. Belfast and Dublin flights will move from Terminal 1 to Terminal 5, while flights to/from Barcelona will relocate from Terminal 5 to Terminal 3.

Dublin and Belfast moving out of T1 signals the start of the airline’s exit from the terminal. All remaining BA operations are set to transfer away from T1 by late 2015. To make space for the Irish flights at T5, services to Barcelona are moving to T3.

The switches bring a number of customer benefits. The Dublin flights have a high proportion of connecting customers and, in switching their arrival to T5, the minimum connection time will improve from 90 to 60 minutes. Customers on the Barcelona flights will benefit from our new largely on-pier operation at T3, introduced in September, also as part of the two-terminal consolidation programme.

Summary of the Winter schedule changes

From Heathrow:

DESTINATION	START/DATES	EXTRA FLIGHTS PER WEEK
Aberdeen	November 13	Two
Manchester	November 13	Two
Newcastle	November 13	Five
Glasgow	November 20	Six
Amsterdam	November 20	One
Barcelona	October 26	One
Copenhagen	October 26	One
Brussels	October 27	Three
Dusseldorf	January 5	Three
Munich	November 20	Six
Berlin	October 26	Seven
Vienna	October 26	Seven
Mexico City	December 6	One
Cape Town	January 2 to January 10	One daily extra flight

 

From Gatwick

DESTINATION	START/DATES	EXTRA FLIGHTS PER WEEK
*Friedrichshafen	December 20	Twice weekly (new route)
*Grenoble	December 20	Twice weekly (new route)
*Fuerteventura	December 13	Twice Weekly(new route)
Malta	October 26	Five
To Salzburg	December 14	One
To Turin	October 27	Two
To Tenerife	October 30	Two
To *Punta Cana	October 26	Twice weekly (new direct route)
To Kingston	December 7 (until February 22)	One
To Tampa	October 26	One (making a daily service)
To Tobago	October 26	One
To Barbados	December 3 (until Feb 25)	Two
To Orlando	October 26 to November 30, and March 1 to March 28	Three
To Antigua	October 28	Extra capacity available