London City to Barcelona to become a year-round British Airways route

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• zanderblue says:

  27 Jun27 June 07:08

  I don’t see EDI included in the list of selected origins in the T and C’s.

  • Rob says:

    27 Jun27 June 08:48

    Weird, because it is in the Qatar press release!

• Tom says:

  27 Jun27 June 08:34

  I think what you mean is “an unfriendly 6.55am departure time if you live near Heathrow, like what I do”. I love the 7am Saturday leisure destination flights living near LCY. I can literally leave for the airport at 6am, still make the flight comfortably and means you maximise time at your destination for a short weekend break. The flights generally seem pretty full so not just me that thinks that.

  • lumma says:

    27 Jun27 June 08:58

    Indeed. 7am flight from Stansted, absolute nightmare. 7am from LCY, perfect. On the shorter flights it almost becomes day trip territory (did a day trip to Luxembourg recently – 7.30 out on BA, 9.30pm back on Luxair, saw a fair bit of the city)

  • Richie says:

    27 Jun27 June 09:28

    My nearest airport is LCY. I’ve done 7:05am flights and earlier, I don’t like them because my body clock is set to wake about 6:30. Our body clocks are different that’s all.

  • John says:

    27 Jun27 June 11:23

    From many parts of London it’s slightly risky, you either take a very long set of night buses or you get the first daytime trains and any sort of disruption may make you miss the flight.

    Twice when going for a 7am LCY departure, my tube or overground train inexplicably didn’t move for 3 minutes. The first time that was enough to see the gate closing when I was 15 seconds away and they refused to reopen it, the other time they did reopen it because there was some technical problem which took the pilots 20 minutes to sort.

    Though yes vast majority of the time I do make it and yes paying £40 for a taxi would avoid the problem, but I wanted to pay £1.50 or whatever the fare used to be. And that flight that I missed had a fare of £1 so I only lost £16… rebooked on avios from LHR.

    • Chrisasaurus says:

      27 Jun27 June 23:15

      I’m assuming 3 meant 30 here, otherwise frankly that’s cutting fine even for me and I’m late almost everywhere…

  • RussellH says:

    27 Jun27 June 11:57

    As far as I am concerned, anything before a 1000 departure is far too early, given the fact that flights are not turn-up-and-go. Even with an airport hotel 1000 probably means heading for security at 0800 at most airports these days, but since my day seldom starts much before 0900…

• Richie says:

  27 Jun27 June 09:08

  BTW there are skiing holiday possibilities from BCN airport.

  • John T says:

    27 Jun27 June 09:56

    Andorra is about 3.5 hours away by bus.

• Antje says:

  27 Jun27 June 09:37

  Hi, I have tried booking the LCY-BCN route for late September. Aeroroutes mentioned that BA will operate the winter season from 30 Oct. Does this mean BA will not operate the route between 05 Sept and 30 Oct, so not throughout?
  Thanks

  • Richie says:

    27 Jun27 June 09:48

    It seems so for 22.

  • Rob says:

    27 Jun27 June 12:22

    Seems so, I will clarify.

• phatbear says:

  27 Jun27 June 11:06

  Think the article about LCY-BCN could be clearer as i looked for mid Sept and they arent running then as, according to the link on your article they stop 4th sept and recommence 30th oct

• roger says:

  27 Jun27 June 11:16

  Check this for potential flight cancellations for July 2022
  https://aeroroutes.com/eng/220627-bajul22lon

  • Martin says:

    27 Jun27 June 14:10

    Not sure I wanted to read that to see our 2 July flights both have flight reductions.
    Wonder how long til BA tell those on affected flights.

• TimM says:

  27 Jun27 June 11:31

  I am waiting for BA Cityflyer to return to Manchester. I love the Embraer E190 – ‘the poor person’s Concorde’ – and in business with champagne it is very much the part. I wonder if part of the levelling down initiative BA could be forced to serve parts of Britain other than London?

  • Rhys says:

    27 Jun27 June 11:36

    Shall I get the popcorn?

  • Richie says:

    27 Jun27 June 12:03

    Which destinations do you think would be successful in CE from MAN?

    • letBAgonesbe says:

      27 Jun27 June 12:08

      London

    • TimM says:

      28 Jun28 June 07:45

      Broadly the same as from LHR & LGW except more wintersun destinations. Northerners are great winter travellers, for obvious reasons. MAN tends to serve practically anywhere North of it due to its rail connectivity.

      • bafan says:

        28 Jun28 June 23:25

        BA’s experiences at MAN have shown that while the Northerners may be willing to fly – they are less willing to pay the BA premium.

• AndyC says:

  30 Jun30 June 01:56

  “You can use ‘Cash and Avios’ alongside these sale fares to reduce the cash cost of your ticket further.”

  *The QR website doesn’t permit using Cash & Avios AND availing of the promo discount – it’s either one or the other.

  • Rob says:

    30 Jun30 June 08:54

    I’ll tell the London team who told me otherwise 🙂

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