British Airways launches flights to Aruba and Georgetown
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British Airways has been filing its schedules for 2023 this week, and as part of that it has launched a number of new routes.
Ski flights from Gatwick (click to read) have relaunched, as have a number of new flights from Gatwick and Heathrow to the Caribbean (click to read). Both had wide open Avios availability, although going by the comments on both articles a lot of that has been snapped up by readers.
British Airways will also add two more Caribbean routes from Gatwick: Aruba and Georgetown, Guyana. As these are new flights Avios availability should be wide open, with four seats in Club, two in World Traveller Plus (premium economy) and eight in World Traveller (economy) available.
London Gatwick – Aruba
The new Aruba flights will operate from Gatwick. There will be two flights per week on Thursday and Sunday, starting from the last week of March.
The flight leaves London at 10:00, arriving in Aruba at 16:30 by way of Antigua, where it has a brief 1-hour stop.
On the return, flights will depart Aruba at 18:30 and arrive in Gatwick at 10:15 the following morning, again via a quick 1-hour stopover in Antigua.
London Gatwick – Georgetown (Guyana)
The Georgetown flights will operate as a one-stop service via St Lucia.
There will be two flights per week on Monday and Thursday, starting in the last week of March.
The outbound service departs Gatwick at 11:35 and arrives in Georgetown at 18:05. The stop-over is scheduled for an hour.
On the return, the flight departs Georgetown at 19:50 and lands at Gatwick at 11:45 the following morning, again via St Lucia.
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