BA is shaking up its long-haul networks at Heathrow and Gatwick with year-round flights to Bangkok and an extra weekly service to Jamaica’s capital Kingston.
In the Middle East, there are extra services to Bahrain, Doha, Jeddah and Riyadh, offering more options for onward connectivity through the region’s transit hubs.
Meanwhile, in the US, BA is upping frequency to Miami, Dallas, Las Vegas, San Diego and Austin. However, flights to New York’s busiest airport – JFK – will now operate exclusively from Heathrow.
It comes after BA earlier this year announced plans to expand its short-haul network at Gatwick with the addition of Morocco’s capital Rabat and the Austrian city of Graz. Here are BA’s proposed changes in full:
Bangkok
Following the addition of Bangkok last year, BA will upgrade its Gatwick route from winter-only to year-round. Starting next summer, BA will operate its Gatwick-Bangkok service three-times-a-week. This will then go up to six flights a week during the winter, an extension from the up to five-times-a-week service it operated between January and March this year.
Jamaica
BA will operate an extra weekly flight to Kingston, Jamaica, from Gatwick next summer, growing the service to four-times-weekly.
The US
- BA will reintroduce its double-daily service from Heathrow to Miami International
- It will also reintroduce its daily service to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Las Vegas will be served 13 times a week from Heathrow next summer, up from 10
- Services to San Diego and Austin will both be upgraded to 14 a week
- BA will operate to New York JFK from Heathrow exclusively, starting next summer, after scaling back its Gatwick service, which is down to a single daily flight. Its Gatwick-JFK route will end in October.
The Middle East
- BA will up its Heathrow-Bahrain service to daily, more than doubling its current weekly frequency
- In Saudi Arabia, BA will reduce its Jeddah service to five flights a week, and upgrade Riyadh route to 14-times-a-week
- BA will also serve Doha 14 times a week
