BA news: two City Airport routes dropped, flights to Newcastle trimmed

News in brief:

BA CityFlyer cancels two routes

As part of these changes to the BA CityFlyer operations, two routes from London City Airport have been cut:

• London City to Guernsey
• London City to Santorini

This is on top of the previously reported closure of Milan Malpensa and Menorca.

These were ‘Summer only’ routes which will now not return next year. Guernsey is not served by BA from any other airport, although Aurigny flies from London Gatwick.

British Airways services to Newcastle cut back

A large number of changes to the Heathrow Summer 2023 flying schedule were put through this week. If your flight was impacted, you should have received an email from British Airways. There are also a number of short haul terminal swaps between Terminal 3 and Terminal 5.

It is worth flagging that Newcastle will see a sharp cut in the number of flights.

From the end of March 2023, Newcastle will drop from 37 weekly flights to London Heathrow to 29.

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