Mar 16, 2016, 7:39 am

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List of Stations that have cut over to FLY, this is a community resource, please feel free to edit with any Information you may have.

RED indicates station has a due date to cut over to FLY. Please see bottom of Wiki for expected cut over dates.

MAGENTA indicates offline station which uses alternative system linked into FLY.

UK&I
ABZ BHD CBG
EDI GLA HUY
INV IOM JER
LBA LCY LGW
MAN NCL STN

LHR Migration
ABV ABZ ACC ADB AGP AMM AMS ARN ATH ATL AUH AUS BAH BCN BGO BHD
BIA BIO BIQ BKK BLL BLQ BLR BOM BOS BRU BSL BUD BWI CAI CDG CFU
CHQ CPH CPT CTU DEL DEN DFW DME DOH DUB DUS DXB EDI EWR EZE FAO
FCO FRA FSC GCM GIB GIG GLA GOT GRU GVA HAJ HAM HEL HKG HND HYD
IAD IAH IBZ ICN INV IST JED JFK JMK JNB JTR KBP KEF KGS KLX KRK KUL
KWI LAD LAS LAX LBA LCA LED LIN LIS LOS LPA (IB) LUX LXS LYS MAA
MAD (BA & IB) MAH MAN MCT MEX MIA MRS MUC MXP NAS NBO NCE NCL
NRT OLB ORD ORY OSL OTP OVD (IB) PEK PHL PHX PMI (BA & IB) PMO PRG
PSA PVG PVK RHO RUH SAN SEA SFO SIN SJC SOF SPU STR SVG SYD
TFN (IB) TLS TLV TXL VCE VIE WAW YUL YVR YYC YYZ ZAG ZRH

**All T3 & T5 flights migrated to FLY**

Charter flights (eg, CFU) may appear twice for the charter organiser and BA controlled.

Europe
AAL AAR ACE
AGP ALC AMS
ANE ARN ATH
BCN BGO BIO
BIQ BJV BLL
BLQ BMA BOD
BRI BRU BSL
BUD CAG CDG
CFU CHQ CPH
CTA DBV DME
DLM DUB DUS
EGC FAO FCO
FLR FNC FRA
FUE GIB GOA
GOT GRX GVA
~~GYD~~ HAJ HAM
HEL HER IBZ
IST JMK JTR
KBP KEF KGX
KLX KRK LCA
LED LIN LIS
LUX LYS MAD
MAH MLA MRS
MUC MXP NCE
OLB OPO ORY
OSL OTP PFO
PMI PMO PRG
PSA RHO RTM
SKG SNN SOF
SPU STR SVG
SVQ SZG TFS
TIA TLS TRN
TXL UIP VCE
VIE VLC VRN
WAW ZAG ZRH

North America/Central Am/Caribbean
ANU ATL AUS
BDA BGI BOS
BWI CUN DEN
DFW EWR GCM
GND IAD IAH
JFK KIN LAS
LAX MCO MEX
MIA NAS ORD
PHL PHX PLS
POS PUJ SAN
SEA SFO SJC
SJO SKB TAB
TPA UVF YUL
YVR YYC YYZ

South America
EZE GIG GRU
LIM

Middle East/South Asia
AUH AMM BAH
BEY BLR BOM
DEL DOH DXB
HYD JED KWI
MAA MCT RUH
TLV

Far East/Oceania
BKK CTU HKG
HND ICN KUL
NRT PEK PVG
SIN SYD

Africa
ABV ACC ALG
CAI CPT DUR
HRE JNB LAD
LOS LVI MRU
NBO PLZ RAK
VFA WDH

Updated weekly:
http://www.britishairways.com/en-es/...in/new-systems

11 May DXB
12 May BOS, GLA, IAD
17 May BCN, EWR, FCO, MAD
19 May ANE (Angers), EDI, GRX (Granada), LAX, MAN, STN, UIP (Quimper)
23 May BAH, DOH, AUH, MCT
24 May SIN, SYD
25 May GCM, NAS

28 May DLM
30 May BJV
31 May FLR, JFK (BA178 only)
02 Jun JFK (All)
07 Jun MAD
14 Jun BRU
27 Jun CAG

Cagliari was the final station to migrate to FLY.

GYD route suspended.

Remaining flights will be FLY enabled upon commencement/resumption :
FDH (Friedrichshafen) : Resumes 10 Dec 2016
GNB : Resumes 10 Dec 2016
IKA : Route ~~begins 14 Jul 2016~~ delayed to 01 Sep 2016
INN : Resumes 04 Dec 2016
MLE : Resumes 31 Oct 2016
SCL : Route begins 03 Jan 2017
SSH : Unclear whether this route will relaunch *ROUTE INDEFINITELY SUSPENDED*

Some of the process changes visible to the passenger when a flight is to depart from an airport that has changed to FLY:

Rollout of Altéa's FLY - new Departure Control System

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Mar 18, 2016, 11:17 am

#91

KARFA

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Quote:

Originally Posted by oliver2002

Isn't BA@MUC handled by Aerogate? Aerogate also does QR, AY, DY and others, all of who use Altea DCS.

I have no idea. They were wearing BA uniforms but with most outstations they are probably no BA staff. In any case they still have to use FLY now.

Mar 18, 2016, 11:47 am

#92

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BLHD

But as mentioned previously, FLY isn't Altea as we know it. Completely different Front End.

Sure...

You really think an airline will customize the front end to death...

Mar 19, 2016, 4:37 pm

#93

jamespvg

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One interesting consequence of this: seat maps are now available through external sources (like ExpertFlyer) right up to departure. With the old system, it ceases to be visible once the flight goes to airport control.

Mar 19, 2016, 4:40 pm

#94

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jamespvg

That's a very welcome news! When I travel in economy I like to check-in but not retrieve my boarding pass so I can seat shift and have a CE-like seat with middle empty. This enhancement will make it much easier! ^

Mar 19, 2016, 4:46 pm

#95

BLHD

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Quote:

Originally Posted by oliver2002

Sure...

You really think an airline will customize the front end to death...

I don't think... I know!

Mar 20, 2016, 12:26 am

#96

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Quote:

Originally Posted by nufnuf77

+1,very good news!

Mar 20, 2016, 4:15 am

#97

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jamespvg

Aha, that explains why a few weeks ago at I was sat in my economy seat at MCO waiting for boarding to finish while looking at what appeared to be a live seat map of our MCO-LGW flight on expertflyer.

I think there were only two spare seats and the one next to me was showing with the X (?) suggesting that it was blocked, which welcome, as I hadn't factored when booking that MCO-LGW at the end of half term may not be a restful experience....there were scores of excited Mickey Mouse youngsters aboard.

I'm not sure whether the seat was blocked because the seat was u/s (I don't think so), whether being Gold helped or whether the guy on the other aisle was a VIP or... Anyway, my experience was that the live seat map was accurate and it's a nice enhancement.

Mar 21, 2016, 3:46 am

#98

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Didn't realize NBO had already switched over; it was remarkably smooth checking in there, no delays at all. Even inquiring about other flight options for my connection was very quick (that is, quickly shot down!)

Mar 21, 2016, 4:11 am

#99

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jamespvg

As far as I have noticed so far, these are the visible (to the passenger) process changes that a departure from a FLY airport entail:-

Any more? It may be worth assembling a list of reliably-observed changes and putting them into the wikipost.

Mar 21, 2016, 4:35 am

#100

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Apparently they were having issues with this at NCE on Friday - gracefully handled by staff though, and bags made it to LCY without any issue.

Boarding, on the other hand, was a total s-show.

Mar 22, 2016, 5:05 am

#101

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LCY problems this morning

Boarding at LCY (to AMS) this morning was very slow. Despite starting early (before T-25 mins) people are still straggling onboard at T+4. Gate agent apologised and said their system had frozen.

Now the turnaround manager is having to count and check passengers manually.

Altéa may be a proven system but BA's front end add-on isn't.

Mar 24, 2016, 12:37 am

#102

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Rollout of Altéa's FLY - new Departure Control System

BA's Twitter feed is says FLY is currently down

Quote:

...we've had teething problems while we upgrade the check in system. It is currently down worldwide. ^Helen

Mar 24, 2016, 10:20 am

#103

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve_ZA

BA's Twitter feed is says FLY is currently down

amusing that they don't publish as a proper tweet - they only mention it in response to a complaint !

https://twitter.com/British_Airways/...74606533672960

Mar 24, 2016, 10:27 am

#104

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Quote:

Originally Posted by fartoomanyusers

amusing that they don't publish as a proper tweet - they only mention it in response to a complaint !

https://twitter.com/British_Airways/...74606533672960

Indeed, much like the exit row seat selection "glitch" which has only been highlighted on FT.

Mar 31, 2016, 4:01 am

#105

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According to a check-in agent at DUR (who was surprised that I knew anything about FLY), the cutover date there is 14 April. I didn't get a chance to ask if that would apply to the entire Comair network or whether there are different dates for different stations.

Interestingly, a leaflet on the check-in desks expressly links the change to FLY to Comair's new standardised check-in closure time of 45 minutes (compared to 30 minutes now). Last week, I was nevertheless still allowed to drop a bag at JNB at 35 minutes, having waited an unusually long time for it to be delivered off the long-haul. If bags really won't be accepted after 45 minutes once FLY comes in, it may mean that I will now miss more connections there than hitherto.