BA pulling Kiev and St Petersburg routes effective 4 Oct 2019
May 23, 2019, 4:30 am
#76
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: North West England
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Apologies in advance for this post but this has never happened to me in all the time I have flown BA.
1.When they are finding an alternative route back from KBP-LHR does it have to be on a one world partner or a airline that is afflicted with 1W?
2. I have a flight on a separate booking LHR-MAN later in the day, will BA change that flight to accommodate my new flights from Kiev?
I also have a few flights to Moscow booked through out this year. Does anyone think these flights may be cancelled/suspended?
Again apologies in advance as I am new to this.
Thanks
1.When they are finding an alternative route back from KBP-LHR does it have to be on a one world partner or a airline that is afflicted with 1W?
2. I have a flight on a separate booking LHR-MAN later in the day, will BA change that flight to accommodate my new flights from Kiev?
I also have a few flights to Moscow booked through out this year. Does anyone think these flights may be cancelled/suspended?
Again apologies in advance as I am new to this.
Thanks
May 23, 2019, 5:32 am
#77
Join Date: May 2007
Programs: BA Blue, EI Silver, Honours Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 1,209
Apologies in advance for this post but this has never happened to me in all the time I have flown BA.
1.When they are finding an alternative route back from KBP-LHR does it have to be on a one world partner or a airline that is afflicted with 1W?
2. I have a flight on a separate booking LHR-MAN later in the day, will BA change that flight to accommodate my new flights from Kiev?
I also have a few flights to Moscow booked through out this year. Does anyone think these flights may be cancelled/suspended?
Again apologies in advance as I am new to this.
Thanks
1.When they are finding an alternative route back from KBP-LHR does it have to be on a one world partner or a airline that is afflicted with 1W?
2. I have a flight on a separate booking LHR-MAN later in the day, will BA change that flight to accommodate my new flights from Kiev?
I also have a few flights to Moscow booked through out this year. Does anyone think these flights may be cancelled/suspended?
Again apologies in advance as I am new to this.
Thanks
For St Petersburg BA want their passengers booked on SAS via Stockholm or Copenhagen, but this is specifically to London. If there are no connecting BA services from Stockholm of Copenhagen then BA passengers can be rebooked on SK metal to London. It doesn't seem unreadable to be booked MAN-CPH/ARN-KBP, but that's not, strictly speaking, what BA have instructed their agents to do - at this stage.
May 23, 2019, 5:55 am
#79
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 2,016
For LHR-KBP, the simplest rerouting sounds like LHR-LGW-KBP using National Express and Ukraine International Airways (PS). However, if you've have booked XXX-LHR-KBP, then a different routing may be better, in particular if XXX-LHR-LGW-KBP requires getting a British visa whereas XXX-LHR-KBP does not.
May 23, 2019, 7:10 am
#82
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It won't do any good. If people used the service it wouldn't be pulled.
May 23, 2019, 9:01 am
#83
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Posts: 11
SK starts flights to KBP from OSL with winter schedule. Probably, BA might be willing to move everyone there. I imagine that SK will not be able to sell first winter flights too great, so it would be easier for BA to negotiate better price.
May 23, 2019, 10:14 am
#85
Join Date: Jan 2010
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What difference would it make? BA are in the business of maximising profit, and not a public service.
May 23, 2019, 11:42 am
#86
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
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Three times a week. Definitely not going to work for everyone, so this might be just one of the options. I suspect another option would be direct PS flight from LGW.
May 23, 2019, 11:57 am
#87
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What's often unexpected is the weakest routes are not always those with the greatest competition.
May 23, 2019, 12:14 pm
#89
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: London
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 77
Got my KPB flight refunded to my Amex today.
just slightly concerned about a future booking Moscow with BA for the 8.45 departure but it’s a risk I need to take as a cheap reward flight v £240 one way with Aeroflot.
just slightly concerned about a future booking Moscow with BA for the 8.45 departure but it’s a risk I need to take as a cheap reward flight v £240 one way with Aeroflot.
May 23, 2019, 12:37 pm
#90
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Apologies in advance for this post but this has never happened to me in all the time I have flown BA.
1.When they are finding an alternative route back from KBP-LHR does it have to be on a one world partner or a airline that is afflicted with 1W?
2. I have a flight on a separate booking LHR-MAN later in the day, will BA change that flight to accommodate my new flights from Kiev?
1.When they are finding an alternative route back from KBP-LHR does it have to be on a one world partner or a airline that is afflicted with 1W?
2. I have a flight on a separate booking LHR-MAN later in the day, will BA change that flight to accommodate my new flights from Kiev?
There is no news on the Moscow flights, but unless relations between the UK/EU and Russia improve, both politically and economically, then a downwards spiral seems plausible. But I really can't see the route being pulled altogether unless there is a further increase in tension.