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British Airways has just loaded a number of new flights to the Caribbean for next Spring and Summer, and Avios availability is wide open.

The new flights are from bith Heathrow and Gatwick and included the Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago and Turks & Caicos.

Trinidad and Tobago

BA launches new direct services to Trinidad and Tobago

British Airways has launched five new weekly services to the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

The good news is that three of these flights will be a direct service from Gatwick to Port of Spain, the capital, on the island of Trinidad. The remaining two services will be to Tobago, via St Lucia.

Gatwick to Port of Spain (POS)

There are three flights per week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. The outbound leaves Gatwick at 09:30, landing in Port of Spain at 13:40 The return leaves at 15:40 landing in Heathrow at 05:15 the following morning.

Here is the availability for two Club World seats as at 1pm on Wednesday, via seatspy.com. All four Club World seats are open on virtually every flight. Obviously seats are available in World Traveller Plus (2) and Economy (6) too.

Seatspy Port of Spain availability

Gatwick to Tobago (TAB)

If you’d rather to go Tobago you can do that too, via a new one-stop route via St Lucia.

Even though the route is a tag to the St Lucia flights, British Airways has opened up full Avios availability all the way through (London to St Lucia to Tobago).

Flights operate on Tuesdays and Fridays, departing Gatwick at 11:35 and arriving in Tobago at 17:10, following a 1 hour stopover in St Lucia.

On the return, flights depart Tobago at 19:10, stop in St Lucia for an hour and then continue to Gatwick, arriving at 10:25 the following morning.

Availability is equally wide open as for the Port of Spain flights. Club World is 150,000 Avios per person peak and 125,000 Avios per person, return, off peak. Taxes are around £750 in Business.

BA yin yang Club

Gatwick flights feature the old Club World

Note that, as these flights are operating from Gatwick, they will come with the older yin-yang Club World seat and not Club Suite that is available from Heathrow.

BA increases Bahamas flights from Heathrow

In addition to the new routes to Trinidad and Tobago, British Airways has also increased its services to Nassau in the Bahamas.

The additional flights are on Wednesday and Sundays in April, May, increasing to four additional services per week in June with varying dates. Here is a screenshot from SeatSpy:

Seatspy Nassau availability

Flights depart at Heathrow at 10:15 and arrive in Nassau at 14:35. On the return, they depart Nassau at 21:50 and arrive at Heathrow 11:15 the following morning.

Club World is 150,000 Avios per person peak and 125,000 Avios per person, return, off peak. Taxes are around £750 in Business.

Note that these flights operate from Heathrow. By April, British Airways should have completed its roll-out of Club Suite across the 777 fleet.

Providenciales, Turks and Caicos extended into the summer

A few weeks ago, we wrote about the addition of new flights to Turks and Caicos over the Winter schedule.

It now looks like BA has extended this flight into the Summer. As before, the flight will operate from Heathrow as a tag-on to the flights to the Bahamas (Nassau), although the timings have shifted a bit.

There are two flights per week, on Thursday and Sunday. The outbound leaves Heathrow at 10:15, landing in Turks & Caicos at 16:00. The return leaves at 18.05, landing in Heathrow at 11.15. Here is the availability from SeatSpy:

Seatspy Providenciales availability

Club World is 150,000 Avios per person peak and 125,000 Avios per person, return, off peak. Taxes are around £750 in Business.

All flights can be booked on the British Airways website here.

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Comments (53)

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  • Dace says:
    11 Aug11 August 00:25

    Anyone got an inclination if Osaka or Seoul will return in 2023?

  • magicmat says:
    11 Aug11 August 02:36

    And adding to the list – any thoughts on when Cape Town will be added to the 2023 schedule?

  • Just Nick says:
    11 Aug11 August 07:24

    Just booked for Aruba next Easter on a 2-4-1. Any ideas on where to stay and what to do.

    • Aso40 says:
      11 Aug11 August 14:51

      I did the same this morning. Looking at staying at the Ritz Carlton, but also doing the short flight for a few nights in Curacao.

    • David S says:
      12 Aug12 August 20:46

      We stayed at the Marriott last time and is was pretty good. Ideally you want to be on this same strip of beach as it’s the widest. There are a whole bunch of hotels. But for 2023, the hotel prices are astronomical . It put me off searching for a 241. In terms of things to do, it’s pretty small island so you can do an island tour . Miles of cactuses in the north. There used to be a submarine trip out to the reef. At one end of the island there usonWeather is pretty must like the U.K. at present but way more humid.

      • David S says:
        12 Aug12 August 20:48

        Oops pressed too early. One end of the island has a large prison and there used to be a huge refinery but I heard it was being decommissioned. All these islands have oil facilities. That said, it is nice to explore. More US than Dutch

  • G says:
    11 Aug11 August 10:11

    Booked T&C over Easter on a 2-4-1. Thanks for the heads up! Any suggestions on where to stay and what to do? We like luxury without having to pay for it but seems to be little to no options using points.

    • iSub says:
      11 Aug11 August 16:24

      I was there in April, and found the prices pretty crazy. Provo is the main town and it was bit disappointing. It did not feel like an island, more like a hot desert town. Grace Bay Beach is fine, but the town is mostly resort style hotels aimed at Americans who rarely leave, so strolling around, going to a different restaurant every night etc is tough – we had to hire a car. Spent a few nights in Grand Turk which was way more enjoyable, though has no luxury options. Diving was great on both island, though safety standards are lower on GT. We hired a golf buggy which is a standard mode of transport there! Osprey Hotel in Grand Turk was ok, hard to recommend, Royal West Indies in Provo was better, but also only ok.

  • ACK says:
    11 Aug11 August 12:25

    Thanks for the heads up, we were just looking for a week off somewhere nice but found nothing last week in the caribbean. Absolutely nothing. Figured we were too late to the party but managed to get 241 CW seats to TCI today. Glad I didn’t push the better half for the maldives, that would have been an open jaw due to no reward seat being availble back.

  • Redhroogar says:
    11 Aug11 August 12:34

    ADVICE please.
    On the last ‘heads up’ I managed to secure E+ out and Club return to Grenada using 2-4-1 ; great! Thiis tags onto Antigua and lhaving researched some hotels I would like to get off in Antigua; stay for a week and then catch the following week’s flight to Grenada.
    Having just reached Gold I rang them to see if there’s anyway that they could modify our schedule to do this. After a wait while the agent spoke to his supervisor. They decided that, since I’d used a Voucher, the system wouldn’t allow that change.

    Thinking if we travel hand baggage only we could just deplane at Antigua and buy an additional ticket for the Grenada flight the following weekend (relatively expensive but less than a night in some of the hotels).

    The Gold Agent confirmed that this wouldn’t cancel the return flight but might cause a problem for the Aircraft departure. Now we’ve flown via Antigua to St Kits on several occasions and you don’t get off. However I can’t remember if the crew checked if anyone was ‘missing’ . Can anyone answer this and/or advise??
    Apologies for the long post 😬

    • Joecooljoe says:
      11 Aug11 August 13:14

      I take it there’s no longer avios seats available to Antigua or otherwise just do a change (and pay fee). Personally I wouldn’t risk it otherwise…

  • Paul says:
    11 Aug11 August 12:51

    £750 tax for Business Class. No thanks. Prefer spending my Avios in Europe.

    • Will says:
      11 Aug11 August 14:55

      Agreed, Like yourself I’m pretty much out of avios long haul for now because of the ludicrous tax/surcharge situation.

      No doubt there’s still value, and I regularly redeem short haul still but for since the nectar partnership started I withdraw the max monthly to nectar.

      Fortunate to be sat on a few million avios but not comfortable any more holding big quantities given BA do what they want when they want with the cash element of LH avios redemptions.

      • Sean C says:
        11 Aug11 August 15:43

        With the state of current cash fares, miles have never been better value for money on long haul in my opinion, even with the tax hikes. Call me a mug but in real terms it’s still giving me travel in J, paying way less in cash than even just a straight Y ticket.

  • Alan S says:
    11 Aug11 August 12:59

    These Gatwick flights are attractive in terms of destination & seat availability, but the options to/from Gatwick for domestic connections/positioning are awful.

    One flight to and from Scotland each day?

    Leaves you considering the journey from Gatwick to Heathrow…

    • Aso40 says:
      11 Aug11 August 14:56

      Yes, I just booked to connect via Heathrow for EDI. Pre booking a car for ~£50 and 45 min journey is not too bad, but will be a bit of a pain after an overnight flight with no arrivals lounge.

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