British Airways adds three new short haul routes

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.

• Inman says:

  10 Jul10 July 11:23

  Rabat is an interesting choice. Its not really a resort city, not really a big city and not a transit hub. And you can get from Casablanca to Rabat in less than an hour by the TGV Al Boraq train or 1 1/2 hours by car.
  I would have thought Tangier would have been a better option.

  • Dev says:

    10 Jul10 July 20:21

    Rabat is ridiculously high yield for Air France who fly there 3x daily constituting 25% of the entire daily schedule from that airport.

    Rabat is a strange city. It’s an administrative city full of Moroccan elites rather than having any sort of buzz that you get from a commercial city.

    Having there until this morning, there is little to do beyond a couple of nights max. New hotels includes: Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, Conrad and a few others in the last few years.

    What it desperately needs for a high yield luxury traveler is a couple of really elevated dining options. One or two Michelin star places would bring it up to other luxury weekend break places.

    Top tip- the Medina is far more civilized than the one in Marrakech.

    • Jules says:

      14 Jul14 July 15:00

      As a regular tourist/traveller to Morocco I love Rabat! It mixes the very old with the very new. Outstanding places to visit are the Chellah (with new restaurant), Kasbah Oudayas, Potteries at Sale over the river, contemporary Art museum, the medina is still a little wild, beautiful green spaces dotted around. I found it quite laid back. I spent 10 days there with a day trip north to Tangier. Some nice airbnb riads in the medina for accommodation….just like all cities in Morocco – each city is unique!

• The Original Nick says:

  10 Jul10 July 12:33

  @tony, I was told last month at the desk that the system wasn’t working. It was showing 0/5 but it was rammed.

  • The real Swiss Tony says:

    10 Jul10 July 16:03

    Interesting. I was through on the evening of June 15th. Only Club South showed 0/5 – the others were populated. Had a word with one of the floor manager types and they said they were aware but made out it had only just happened.

• RussellH says:

  10 Jul10 July 12:56

  Graz is a brilliant place – Austria’s 2nd city and much more important to Austria than Salzburg and Innsbruck. But yes, still largely off the mass tourism trail.

  • NorthernLass says:

    10 Jul10 July 13:36

    I went on a school exchange to Graz in the mid-80s! I recall it was very pretty, with alpine-type houses. Isn’t it also Arnold Schwarzenegger’s home town 😂

    • NorthernLass says:

      10 Jul10 July 13:37

      Our German teacher was obsessed with all things Austrian, so all the school trips went there instead of Germany!

    • RussellH says:

      10 Jul10 July 14:11

      I think you are right about Schwarzenegger. But not really a reason to visit.
      I do not recall any reference to him any any of the leaflets picked up while there.

      • SheafPete says:

        11 Jul11 July 15:17

        For any keen Schwarzenegger fans you can visit his childhood home and museum/exhibition a few miles outside Graz.

  • Londonsteve says:

    11 Jul11 July 12:04

    Graz is indeed lovely. I was surprised to read that there are no direct flights to London, I’d have thought Ryanair would have long since starting flying from STN, considering they’ve flown to the not too distant but smaller Klagenfurt for the last 2 decades. I can only conclude that Klagenfurt’s proximity to Slovenia draws passengers from northern Slovenia and Ljubjana which is quite an expensive place to fly to, improving the yield. I noticed that there were a lot of Slovenian cars dropping off passengers at Klagenfurt airport prior to my flight to STN.

  • Alex Sm says:

    11 Jul11 July 16:38

    If Eurovision is held in Graz in 2026, these flights could be handy! We did redemption flights to Basel this year and it was a very good deal given the cash prices… 🤓

• Nick says:

  10 Jul10 July 13:30

  I’m still waiting for Tunis to open up, defiantly a market there as 2 Tunisian airlines offer direct flights to London just about everyday all year round

• Garethgerry says:

  11 Jul11 July 11:10

  When they offer a new short-haul route from anywhere but London then that will be worth reporting.

  • Londonsteve says:

    11 Jul11 July 12:07

    Other than BACF seeking to utilise their aircraft during the weekend shutdown at LCY I can’t see that happening unfortunately. The LCC competition is too intense and there’s no BA transit traffic at secondary UK airports.

    • NorthernLass says:

      11 Jul11 July 17:30

      LCC’s are very expensive from the NW now, they know they have no competition!

    • David says:

      14 Jul14 July 20:07

      There used to be. I once flew MAN-LHR on a 747 that was continuing to Hong Kong to get on another one to Singapore. There were all sorts of connections possible then, transatlantic and Asian along with the European network.. Walsh blew the lot because he was unable to craft a working LCC (BA Connect). I know for a fact he was detested by some senior officials at MAN. He should be barred from the city forever.

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.