BA CityFlyer adds nine routes from London City Airport BUT scraps regional weekend flights

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• Tom says:

  27 Jun27 June 06:54

  My 3 summer holidays from Manchester with CityFlyer have all now been cancelled. Oh well, could be a lot worse.

  • The Original David says:

    27 Jun27 June 07:28

    Worse than spending 3 weekends in Manchester? Not sure it could be much worse tbh… 😂

    • Tom says:

      27 Jun27 June 10:48

      Living in Liverpool I can wholeheartedly agree 😀

      • Lady London says:

        27 Jun27 June 13:26

        @Tom what’s Liverpool airport like ?

        • Tom says:

          27 Jun27 June 14:04

          No airbridges so up and down to the tarmac in all weathers. Tiny penned in arrivals. I wouldn’t use it if it wasn’t 10 minutes away.

        • Lady London says:

          27 Jun27 June 21:21

          Tx @Tom

• Mark says:

  27 Jun27 June 08:00

  Surprised Nice hasn’t been added to this list given France is one of the proposed air bridge countries

  • Lady London says:

    27 Jun27 June 13:31

    As another poster has said, I’m mystified why the EU.slapped Boris down for wanting to agree a different quarantine rule with France, saying we had to offee same rule for all EU countries, when quite a few countries in the EU are imposing different rules for entry to some other EU countries now.

    • AJA says:

      27 Jun27 June 14:27

      Call me cynical but I think it’s a case of do as I say not as I do. I’m bored of all this political one-upmanship.

    • J says:

      27 Jun27 June 14:37

      I think you missed the point of the EU argument there. The EU has always said countries were fine to set different entry rules based on the epidemiological situations of countries. But you shouldn’t grant an exception to a country just because of it’s trade value if you are discriminating against others based on infection rate. Would be different if France had, at the time, been the EU leaders in containing the outbreak.

      • Lady London says:

        27 Jun27 June 21:23

        Usually I agree with you on everything @J. But for the first time I dont here. i dont think the reason was trade.

• Iain says:

  27 Jun27 June 08:20

  We had Edinburgh to Palma booked and it was cancelled 2 or 3 weeks ago. I was notified immediately.

• Andrew says:

  27 Jun27 June 08:26

  Not sure Scotland counts as the regions (or STN for that matter).

  • The Original David says:

    28 Jun28 June 06:20

    I think the M25 is a commonly accepted boundary between London and “the regions”…

• Sandra B says:

  27 Jun27 June 09:37

  Hell! Not surprised but that’s our family holiday of 3 from Manchester and 3 from Edinburgh in September affected. Embraer 190 always a nice start. Assume it’s the via LHR slog when they get round to advising us. Wonder if we can start from GLA instead of EDI?

  • Stu N says:

    27 Jun27 June 09:54

    Shame, but yes they should let you start in GLA if that’s more convenient. If there are cancellations, you can ask to be rebooked to airports in a certain radius that will cover EDI and GLA as they are only about 40 miles apart. Will need to phone to rebook as online will p
    just offer options from EDI.

    • Sandra B says:

      27 Jun27 June 09:59

      Thanks. EDI timings were better but live 25 mins from GLA.

  • Helen says:

    27 Jun27 June 10:01

    Glasgow flights have also been cancelled

    • Sandra B says:

      27 Jun27 June 10:03

      Yes I know but BA should offer via LHR and easier from GLA in that scenario.

  • Lady London says:

    27 Jun27 June 13:10

    Remember you have the right to request to vd ticketed on another airline leaving same airport ar close to your original departure time, you might find you dont have to waste a day of your holiday at either end if you can use your rights to get as close as possible to the original departure and landing times

    • Sandra B says:

      27 Jun27 June 14:06

      Would love to do that but don’t think they would consider Jet2 as an option. All direct flights are LCC. My Yorkshire family have already just booked Jet2 from LBA and I’ll await the BA refund as it’s my annual treat to them. 5 lots of £35 was easier on the purse than 5 full fares plus villa but BA return time into Man via LHR was just silly with a 3 year old. I’ll consider my GLA options as 2 adults travelling. Ah well, 1st world problems.

      • Lady London says:

        27 Jun27 June 22:36

        Hi Sandra, I think there might be something I’m missing here.

        Jet2 is indeed the best alternative for a number of routes out of LBA.

        The fact that Jet2 is an LCC does not matter. you have a perfect right to be rerouted at no cost to you onto Jet2 if BA cancelled your flight and cant provide any BA flight that departs from LBA and lands at your destination within a very small number of hours at each end as booked on your original booking

        If Jet2 has a flight that fits the above and BA doesn’t then EU261 says they should provide you tickets on Jet2 instead. This at no cost to you. So you would not be charged a cancellation cost. If the tickets on Jet2 would cost even many times more that’s not your problem they are provided on 9to you without charge.

        Remember BA would have closed the route for their own profit. When they made the decision they are aware of these legal rights of cancelled passengers and it was up to them to take any cost for rerouting you reasonably, into account.

        Reasonable does not include making you take a train to London or telling you,you have to depart from MAN or NCL instead. Reasonable is rerouting you onto another airline’s flight, even an LCC like Jet2, so you can travel out and arrive back as close as possible to your originally booked times with your 3 year old.

        BA might try to refuse but you have this right and can insist and they should provide your Jet2 tickets free of charge. If they really are trying it on, ask your credit card to provide the replacement tickets under Section 75 instead (they will get the money out of BA). If all else fails do a moneyclaim dot gov dot uk for all your extra costs due to your having to buy tickets BA should have provided you.

        Note if the closest Jet2 flight needs any hotel ights in either direction BA muat provide or reimburse this under duty of care part of EU261. as well as transport costs to and from the hotel.
        Same for meals at mealtimes during any extra waits BA must reimburse reasonable costs at the location. None of this happens if you take a refund and it’s available if BA cancelled or significantly re-timed your flight.

        • Sandra B says:

          28 Jun28 June 10:52

          Thank you for all of that Lady London. Very helpful. It’s my son who has the 3 year old and originally booked from MAN with Avios. LBA much closer. I’m the cancelled EDI one but GLA closer. It all could be much simpler but having been bumped off my return last year I’ve experienced tearing out my hair with Customer Services which is a contradiction in terms. I’ll keep a screenshot of your advise. Thanks again.

• Helen says:

  27 Jun27 June 09:40

  I have flights from Glasgow to Palma in September booked with Avios. Will I need to phone in order to get a cash refund?

  • Sandra B says:

    27 Jun27 June 10:01

    Yes. I’m still waiting on one from April although seats and Avios were refunded immediately but after a phone call. Can’t do it till BA notify you.

• Lee says:

  27 Jun27 June 09:48

  We have Manchester to Malaga booked on 12/09/20. No notification to advise flight has been cancelled and is still showing in BA account. As per the article the flight (as of a few days ago) can no longer be searched for or booked online. It’s poor from BA if they know this flight (and other affected flights) is going to be cancelled and still haven’t sent out a notification.

  • Anna says:

    27 Jun27 June 12:32

    We had MAN-AGP outbound for the end of July cancelled several weeks ago, but only got the inbound in August cancellation notice a couple of days ago. At this rate, I would expect to hear about your September flights in another 3-4 weeks.

• Stu N says:

  27 Jun27 June 09:54

  We were meant to be in Florence this weekend using the Edinburgh service 🙁

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