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Vueling launches three new Spanish routes from London Gatwick

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Vueling, the low cost short-haul carrier within the IAG group, and a sister airline of British Airways, continues to expand at London Gatwick. This is due to the airline taking over a number of take off and landing slots from BA.

For the Winter season, Vueling is adding:

  • Gatwick to Gran Canaria / Las Palmas (launches 7th December, two flights per week)
  • Gatwick to Lanzarote (launches 8th December, two flights per week)
  • Gatwick to Tenerife South (launches 6th December, three flights per week)
New Vueling routes from London Gatwick

Other regular routes from Gatwick this Winter include:

  • A Coruña
  • Asturias
  • Barcelona
  • Bilbao
  • Florence
  • Granada
  • Mahon
  • Malaga
  • Paris Orly
  • Rome Fiumcino
  • Santiago de Compostela
  • Valencia

Vueling flights can be booked with Avios.  There are two totally different ways of doing it:

  • redeem via Vueling Club on a revenue-based basis (eg the points price is the cash cost of the flight divided by a fixed value per Avios) or
  • redeem via Iberia Plus, using the standard Avios pricing chart which is based on distance

The former does not require reward seats to be available, unlike the latter. The former also lets you pay for 100% of the cost of your flight with Avios, including the taxes and charges.

Full details of how to redeem Avios points on Vueling flights can be found in this HfP article.

You can find out more, and book, on the Vueling website here.

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Comments (45)

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  • apbj says:
    30 Aug30 August 05:34

    The Duty Free High Life Shop offer isn’t quite correct – home delivery is only available on a smaller range of items, mostly gifts, and none of the booze mentioned seems to be eligible. Great offer for in the air, however…

  • NorthernLass says:
    30 Aug30 August 06:03

    And you can only order for onboard delivery up to the beginning of October 😫

  • Gary Sharp says:
    30 Aug30 August 06:21

    I don’t have the Emirates offer, which is annoying as I’m about to buy a cash 1st ticket. 🙁

    • Gordon says:
      30 Aug30 August 20:57

      If you can afford to buy a 1st cash ticket why are you so upset about £100….

  • Rich says:
    30 Aug30 August 06:52

    No Emirates offer on personal Plat, nor Business Gold…. Where are people seeing it?

  • Jose Marques says:
    30 Aug30 August 07:32

    I have the £800 Emirates offer on my BA premium card

  • Judge says:
    30 Aug30 August 07:48

    Duty free alcohol can’t be home delivered. You have to personally take it through customs.

  • Matarredondaaa says:
    30 Aug30 August 10:04

    If and when BA build own low cost unit up to a decent size will Vuelling be handing back the slots or do they earn more from renting out?

    • ChrisBCN says:
      30 Aug30 August 10:31

      IAG would have a choice of a route being operated by BA or Vueling; I would hypothesise that from Gatwick the maths would always be better for Vueling than for BA, with the exception being routes that see a decent amount of transfer traffic to long haul or a high volume of business class travellers.

      Vueling are better able to compete with other carriers on price than BA due to ancillary revenues and not having the legacy costs that BA have (lounges etc). The one thing I don’t know is if the Vueling based LGW crew are paid less than the BA crew under their new contracts. Perhaps before it was less, but who knows now.

      So, the growth opportunities for the BA part are low (there aren’t many business routes that need a potential third route, alongside LCY and LHR, plus most transfer traffic should be routed through LHR and MAD).

      And the growth opportunities for Vueling are high, Europe wide, for the majority of passengers that choose based on price.

      • ChrisBCN says:
        30 Aug30 August 10:34

        One exception I didn’t mention is if Heathrow gets ‘full’ again and BA want to put some profitable long haul traffic at LGW as an overflow airport – that would probably take slots away from Vueling, if there were no other slots to be had.

  • yonasl says:
    30 Aug30 August 11:24

    Would be nicer if you could use your OneWorld status (I have never found Vueling that much cheaper than a normal BA/IB flight).

    • Richie says:
      30 Aug30 August 13:33

      Some of the VY low season winter flights start at £10 one way. Not as good as a BA Gatwick to Malaga which are sometimes as low as £18, if you need some TPs.

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