What are the British Airways weekend flights from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester and Stansted?

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• Matthew says:

  28 Feb28 February 06:27

  Although not useful to most (could be mixed with another flight) you can also fly BA on…

  TXL-STN (Friday)
  STN-TXL (Sunday)

• Concerto says:

  28 Feb28 February 07:14

  I was wondering if there were any mainstream destinations that you might actually need to fly to, so Berlin is a good addition. The others I could use are Nice and Florence.

  • Anna says:

    28 Feb28 February 07:39

    Nice and Malaga aren’t mainstream??!!

    • Anna says:

      28 Feb28 February 07:40

      Apologies, Palma and Malaga – probably the most mainstream leisure routes in Europe!

• Anna says:

  28 Feb28 February 07:45

  These routes are fantastic for those of us in the regions who resent paying 2 x Avios and RFS fees to get to short haul destinations via LHR, however I am sure BA would find these routes profitable if they offered them at Easter and spring/autumn half term also.

  Also, I think Rob did an article recently pointing out that MAN-AGP return in CE is 160 tier points which could also be useful.

  • Anna says:

    28 Feb28 February 07:47

    Sorry Rhys, I notice you’ve included the tier points in brackets – I think my brain has shut down for the weekend already!

    • Chrisasaurus says:

      28 Feb28 February 09:58

      Great for tier points but the product itself isnt great value imo vis economy for these flights with ide ticks sssting (and assuming lounge access etc already with amex)

      • Chrisasaurus says:

        28 Feb28 February 10:16

        Good lord… identical seating..!

        • Anna says:

          28 Feb28 February 11:16

          No chance of lounge access at MAN T3 unless flying on a business class ticket or pay full price for non-BA lounge. I would rather get 160 tier points from a direct flight than have to change at LHR even if the service is slightly better.

        • Sandgrounder says:

          28 Feb28 February 11:32

          I have never once been refused entry to the PP lounge in MAN T3 or any other terminal, reasonably frequent leisure flyer, double figures visits every year for the past ten years or so. It’s not impossible, it just depends on the time of your visit I suppose.

        • Anna says:

          28 Feb28 February 13:20

          Do you mean you are using Priority Pass to access the Escape lounge in T3? Of course it doesn’t help that we mainly travel at peak periods at the moment!

        • The Savage Squirrel says:

          28 Feb28 February 13:39

          Sandgrounder … I’ve never yet got in with PP at MAN!

          Yes of course timing must play a huge factor and shows there is no one size fits all in this game – like here PP is a valuable tool to you and worthless to me :D.

        • Sandgrounder says:

          28 Feb28 February 14:05

          If it’s T3 for me it’s almost always one of the last flights out in the evening after work (generally the shuttle or a Flybe) or first thing in the morning to RIX. I almost got a knockback at Liverpool last year (solo, squeezed me in), but the only time I have actually been denied entry to any lounge is at LHR, twice, on BA reward ticket return legs (before domestic club). Judging by the reports on here, I have lived a charmed existence indeed!

        • AndyGWP says:

          28 Feb28 February 20:10

          Got in Man T3 escape with DragonPass in Feb half term, no probs (2:30pm’ish)

• Erico1875 says:

  28 Feb28 February 07:49

  looking via seatspy there is hardly any availability left July and August

  • Erico1875 says:

    28 Feb28 February 07:55

    I meant from EDI. Nothing from GLA

    • Anna says:

      28 Feb28 February 08:55

      Those award seats get snapped up very quickly by families wanting to travel in the school holidays, often at T-355.

• Stu N says:

  28 Feb28 February 08:04

  We are using Edinburgh to Florence this summer. It’s nice to have a BA option that doesn’t involve changing in London and the flight times are excellent.

  Coming back from Bologna – I expect the virus will have either killed us all or burnt out by then.

• Sandra B says:

  28 Feb28 February 09:20

  Love these flights from the regions. 2 from Edinburgh and 3 from Manchester using RFS allow a great family holiday in a posh villa. 2020 will be year 3. I agree with Anna that an extension into other months would be popular. Nice small aircraft with decent legroom.

• MandS says:

  28 Feb28 February 09:46

  odd that the reason ba operate these flights not mentioned in the article

  curfew at lcy sat am and sun pm so increases utilisation of otherwise idle planes

  • Rhys says:

    28 Feb28 February 09:55

    does “At weekends, however, it offers a range of leisure destinations to maximise the use of its aircraft” not count? 🙂

    • Callum says:

      28 Feb28 February 14:36

      Not really. If I didn’t already know the reason then that wouldn’t have helped me at all.

      • Rhys says:

        28 Feb28 February 14:41

        I don’t think most people care about the reason, they just care that it’s happening 🙂 we aren’t an avgeek site after all!

  • ChrisC says:

    28 Feb28 February 10:14

    For accuracy the LCY closure is from 13.00 Sat to 12.30 Sun

• Will says:

  28 Feb28 February 10:30

  Trying PMI-GLA for first time this summer in Club. Anyone know what the meal service is? It’s an evening flight.

  • Sandra B says:

    28 Feb28 February 12:41

    Live near GLA but only done EDI. As you are fed in economy as well I’m not sure of the difference although doing Club later this year. Drinks trolley and bacon rolls in the morning. Wraps later in the day is all I can remember. No big 3 course meals but quite civilised and adequate for a 3 hour flight at silly o’clock.

    • Lumma says:

      28 Feb28 February 15:28

      The cityflyer club meals are usually far better than the LHR or LGW meals in my experience. Frankfurt to LCY on Tuesday night was a decent chicken and mash meal. They’ll usually serve as much booze as you want Vs one round of drinks in economy.

      Saying that I only upgraded as I needed a checked bag in a HBO ticket at it was only an extra £20 over the cost of a bag. Worth it for the Japanese toilets in the lounge at FRA!

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