British Airways launches five new Gatwick short-haul services – wide open for Avios redemptions

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• David says:

  4 Jan4 January 21:38

  I was also pleased to see MPL back on until I looked at the prices, £1200+ for two in mid June, mid week? Hardly what one would expect from a “low cost” airline! Makes using Avios superb value……until they cancel the flight through lack of bookings……

  • Richie says:

    5 Jan5 January 00:34

    The cheaper fare buckets may not have been loaded yet to Ba.com

  • Andy says:

    6 Jan6 January 13:08

    Just made a 2-4-1 club europe booking to Thessaloniki late May. Out of interest checked ba.com

    £1908 rtn for 2. Are BA out of their minds at the moment with their pricing.

    As ex staff can see loads, and its not as if these flights are busy and its supply and demand on the last few seats, they are wide open. As are other flights we’ve looked into recently inc SYD.

• Alan says:

  4 Jan4 January 23:03

  Yet sadly still no return of domestic flights, making connections to these impossible.

  • TimM says:

    5 Jan5 January 07:19

    Yes this is a long-running problem. The MAN-LGW route only briefly reappeared in recent years. Better to run direct flights from (what is somewhat patronisingly called) ‘regional’ airports but I can’t see ‘British’ Airways doing that any time soon.

  • ABZ Neil says:

    5 Jan5 January 17:46

    I dream one day BA will connect ABZ to LGW so us “regional” travellers can connect on the the LGW short haul and long haul leisure routes.

• Lee says:

  5 Jan5 January 05:55

  It’s funny how many times BA introduce these flights as “new”. Their just routes that have been restarted several times. Some of these routes were ex GB Airways routes that BA inherited some years ago. The main difference with operating these routes is that their on an inferior cost base base apart from the Flight Crew’s salary’s

  • Richie says:

    5 Jan5 January 06:00

    BA didn’t buy GB Airways, easyJet did.

    • Mikeact says:

      5 Jan5 January 23:17

      Correct

• Nick Jablonski says:

  5 Jan5 January 11:33

  I’m due to fly from LGW to Malta in mid-March this year. Presumably there’s no likelihood of this flight being pulled at short notice, even though mid-March counts as part of the Winter 2022 schedule, rather than Summer 2023? I’m guessing that B.A. will still serve Malta from LHR for Winter 2023?

  In 2022, I went to Malta round about the same time in March, and DID fly from/to LHR, although my originally booked flights were from/to LGW. However, the notification that my flights switched to LHR came much further in advance. Do you think that I will be safe with my booked flights from/to LGW? I hope so, as I find flying from LGW a much more pleasurable experience!

  • Rob says:

    5 Jan5 January 11:37

    Euroflyer dropped me an email today to say that there are still plans to run Malta flights during the Winter 2023 season, but for various planning reasons they are not yet ready to announce them. On that basis you’re fine.

• Paul says:

  5 Jan5 January 17:10

  Interestingly the routes that were added yesterday only go as far as 23 Dec 2023 at the moment, and didn’t get extended last night at midnight as other routes. Slightly annoying, as it means I now need to keep an eye out for further tranches of dates being added, rather than being able to predict when I could book a return flight.

• Joshua C says:

  5 Jan5 January 19:17

  Have had so many cancellations so I can trust that these aren’t bait and switch flights. Booking other more reliable airlines instead- Ryanair in other words, as EasyJet and Wizz just as bad

• cinereus says:

  5 Jan5 January 19:50

  What is the “one cancellation”?

  • Rob says:

    5 Jan5 January 20:52

    Sorry, meant to delete that. There was a line about Malta being pulled but BAEF top brass told me that it is still due to return once some final decisions are made on slots, crew etc – tickets won’t be on sale for some time, however.

• Joan says:

  5 Jan5 January 22:27

  Thanks for the heads up … have just booked a week in Corfu for June ….I have loads of points and 2 companion vouchers to use so did the £1 each business class . Now to find somewhere to stay ….

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