British Airways launches a new service to Lima

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• ee says:

  19 Aug19 August 07:50

  OT but another avios suitcase badge is available. All you have to do is like a certain FB post. 30 avios!

  • Graeme says:

    19 Aug19 August 08:23

    Have they caught onto the sharing to ‘only me’ thing yet?

    • TimS says:

      19 Aug19 August 11:06

      Yes they have, but there’s nothing to stop you sharing/liking the post, collecting the sticker and then deleting the share/like immediately afterwards.

    • Fenny says:

      19 Aug19 August 18:39

      Set up another FB account and share with that.

• Bob says:

  19 Aug19 August 09:00

  Another service from Gatwick! Never mind a new service to Lima, I live in West Yorkshire and BA really ticks (can’t use a stronger word) me off anybody living North of Watford or were ever is not considered, I’m having to fly from Manchester to Heathrow which is fine but my next 2for1 to Mauritius is from Gatwick, there used to be a service to Gatwick so now it’s bus or Taxi from Heathrow to Gatwick with golfing stuff and other luggage what a pain. There seem to be more flights going from Gatwick than ever before, don’t suppose Raffles has any influence on getting Manchester Gatwick back on track. Maybe I should dump BA Amex and get an Emirates Amex at least they fly from Manchester

  • IanT says:

    19 Aug19 August 10:08

    From West Yorkshire to Gatwick surely you are better off getting the train? It’d be much simpler than travelling to Manchester, flying to Heathrow and then travelling to Gatwick. Book well in advance and it’ll only cost you £35 from Leeds to Gatwick.

    • Bob says:

      19 Aug19 August 12:17

      Yes I know train sounds good but golf clubs and luggage you haven’t seem my wife’s luggage!

  • Callum says:

    19 Aug19 August 14:10

    I’m sure you’re right. They have tonnes of space available at Heathrow but thought, “no, let’s start the service from Gatwick instead just to annoy people in Yorkshire”…

    • Troll Basher says:

      19 Aug19 August 15:36

      …and Lancashire and Cheshire and Cumbria and North Wales; oh need we go on..?

      Few will contest that Gatwick is not the most accessible point of departure for many people in the UK.

      For me, it’s a 3 1/2 drive, on a good day and with a following wind, or a 3+ hour train journey which would entail 2 changes, a station change and a tube ride.

      There must be a part of IAG which could operate a LGW-MAN moderately successfully with the overhauled cost base structures and the agreeably low cost of oil currently.

      • Fenny says:

        19 Aug19 August 18:43

        In the dim and distant, when I lived in Hudds and had to fly with the boss out of London, I used to get a LGW-MAN shuttle. For LHR, I just went by train and tube.

        But then, in those days, there were also regular flights between MAN and the US, so unless the boss insisted we all travelled together, I’d go from MAN and get the train to/from Hudds.

  • cheekychappie says:

    19 Aug19 August 17:26

    Far too much whining on HFP these days – get over it, you chose to live a certain distance away from the main airports, so that means you need to find a convenient way to travel to said airports to use the facilities/ routes offered.

    Nobody is going to magic you into the airport from wherever you live, that seems to be what most of you want.

    Can’t stand all these whiners, they’re worse than 2 year olds..

    • mikeact says:

      19 Aug19 August 17:58

      10/10

    • Worzel says:

      19 Aug19 August 18:49

      cheekychappie 5:26 pm:

      Good luck in your magical world!

      ‘they & we all want the same thing, ie motivated loyal custom for great rewards’ -your post at 4:47 pm on the Avios Redemption University Thread!

      • cheekychappie says:

        19 Aug19 August 18:56

        Wanting is not the same as getting 🙂

        Put it this way: if BA upped its game on in-flight service, perhaps threw in a lounge pass for Avios redemptions (which would cost them a meagre tenner), retired a few ‘old wimmin’ trolley dollies who would never be employed @ Virgin, & improved Avios opps: we’d all be overjoyed.

        Wouldn’t actually cost them much & would generate a huge amount of extra business over time.

• Joe says:

  19 Aug19 August 10:38

  This, along with the new Costa Rica route, is a really positive step by BA – it’s about time they opened up direct flights from the UK to destinations like this. But I’m not sure why they have allocated it to Gatwick instead of LHR? Does this mean BA sees Peru as more of a leisure destination?

  • Frenske says:

    19 Aug19 August 11:05

    Yes

  • Rob says:

    19 Aug19 August 11:27

    I think so. It also looks like it dovetails with Costa Rica – between them, it will take the full weekly availability of 1 x 777, albeit they won’t necessarily use the same plane all the time.

    • Graeme says:

      19 Aug19 August 12:28

      It’s a real shame there’s no First when I’ve got a 2-4-1 burning a hole in my pocket….

      • Danksy says:

        19 Aug19 August 12:38

        I have had to let a 2f1 expire …gutted!

        • Worzel says:

          19 Aug19 August 15:21

          Me too Danksy (May)-almost over it now (?) !

• Ian says:

  19 Aug19 August 15:52

  Any idea when they will open Avios bookings for these routes?

  • Rob says:

    19 Aug19 August 17:04

    No. You need to keep checking. It is 90% certain you will see the ‘4 economy, 2 Club World’ there from day 1 of booking being available as a minimum. The new Glasgow to Salzburg route announced today already has Avios redemption seats loaded so I am not sure why it doesn’t happen immediately on all new routes.

• Jamsey says:

  19 Aug19 August 15:58

  Probably late in the day to ask this question so I will ask again tomorrow, does anybody know any cheap Marriott / renniansce properties like with ihg everybody knows the properties you can always snap up for £30/40 a night but what about Marriott rewards anything in there prortfolio always low in price?

  • mikeact says:

    19 Aug19 August 18:02

    O/T…ask on FT.

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