CharAp

This seems really basic but I can't get any help from BA. Is there anywhere online, or even on paper, where I can find a BA timetable? The online timetable on the BA site that I keep getting referred to requires a departure day and a return day but I want to see the timetable for a three month period - what days they fly to a certain destination, from which London airport and at what times etc. Is this possible to find anywhere? If not, why not!

Thanks and sorry for a demanding first post on the Flyertalk forums.

irishguy28

BA hasn't published such a timetable since the Winter 2007/8 timetable.

You can, however, look at the oneworld timetable which includes all partners but which covers much shorter timeframes (the current version covers the period of May 16 to June 13 2014 only) and which is updated frequently. There are also versions which can be downloaded to various mobile/tablet devices: http://www.oneworld.com/tools/downloadable-timetables

CharAp

I think I last had a timetable of that sort back in 2005, never needed one again until now. Thanks for that link but it doesn't give me the information that I need. I need more than a month ahead of time... Anyone else, please?

irishguy28

You won't find the information that you need in the exact format that you are looking for.

My advice would therefore be to be a little pragmatic. The information you want is there - just not in the format that you want - so you just have to be a little bit more cunning.

The BA timetable won't change that much beyond June 16 [airlines typically only introduce wholesale changes to the timetable at the changeover to the IATA winter timetable (end of October) though of course flights can vary on any route at any time and some cancellations of business-heavy routes - such as the LCY-JFK route - are far more likely during the summer], so you can use the current oneworld timetable as an almost 100% accurate guide. When you have focussed on the routes of interest, you can then go to the BA website and check if these flights are scheduled for the exact date that you are interested in.

CharAp

The problem is that two of the routes I am most interested in do change sometime over the summer. I suppose I must brave the call centre!

Last 12 months - LHR, LGW, LCY, FAO, STR, PMI, AGP, LIS, DEL, ANU, SBH, AXA

irishguy28

Most German airports still provide printed copies of their timetables - so I can at least help you out with the Stuttgart Summer 2014 timetable out of those destinations you have listed...

The call centre probably won't be able to provide you with anything more than what is available on the website. And given the wait times to get through on the BA line, I think you would be better off using a targetted approach (focus on the routes and dates of interest. I don't know if you've even tried, but the BA website will show you all flights for the entire week of the date you entered - so you can quickly search through the entire summer for any particular route by adjusting your search dates by 7 days on each screen. Almost all of July can be viewed in just four screens, for instance, for any route. Use "LON" (London, United Kingdom, LON, London (All Airports)) in your search so that departures from each of LHR, LGW and LCY are shown together).

CharAp

Yes it seems that the week by week approach is the best available. I just hoped there was a full timetable somewhere...

aBroadAbroad

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dptraveller

sadly the world seems obsessed with timetables which over much shorter periods...weeks not months...and BA has succumbed to the same.

vanmunchen

Not quite. I have one covering 30 March 2008 to 25 October 2008. Unfortunately those final issues were far less comprehensive than earlier issues and didn't have the aircraft seating plans which I used to like.

callum9999

I think it's more a case of people not really using timetables for flights any more. It's a pretty niche requirement now the online booking engines are so prevalent and easy to use.

crazy8534

In the early 90s I remember having a lovely little black (or perhaps dark blue) book, with very thin paper, that contained all of BA's timetable information. It also had seat maps for each of the aircraft in the fleet (concorde, lockheed tristar etc..) and a short spiel about the different classes available.

I am well aware that this is of no use to the OP (and indeed I hope you find the information that you seek) but you have suddenly made me feel very nostalgic!

Globaliser

The ba.com online timetable will show you flights for a week at a time. So you only need to run 13 searches to cover three months. It shouldn't take you more than a quarter of an hour if you save the results from each search.

I suspect that very few people search the timetable in this way, hence there's no need to provide a page that covers a longer period.

r22r44bell47

Dark blue I think. I really miss them and used to find them worryingly obsessive reading! Used to fall through the letterbox with a reassuring thump, when the world was young and 744 was the newest beast on the fleet .

Crampedin13A

Yes the late 80's ones were dark blue with a photo of a different BA aircraft each issue. Funny this came up as recently I found a box full of airline timetables I had collected from tne 80's and a few old OAG guides as well. Pretty interesting seeing the old routes and seating plans.