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Covid-19 flight operations | latest route info and schedule changes

Old Apr 2, 2020, 2:58 pm
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Planned long haul services for June 2020, published by routesonline.com

Long-haul routes
As of 0930GMT 07MAY20, planned June 2020 long-haul operation as follows. Additional changes expected in the next few days.

Heathrow to Boston: 1 daily 787-8
Heathrow to Chicago O’Hare: 1 daily 787-9
Heathrow to Delhi: 1 daily 787-8 (From 16th June)
Heathrow to Hong Kong: 3 weekly 777-300ER
Heathrow to Los Angeles: 1 daily 787-9
Heathrow to Mumbai: 787-9 operates alternating days (from 15th June)
Heathrow to New York JFK: 2 daily 747-400/777-200ER Daily 777-200ER
Heathrow to San Francisco: 1 daily 787-8 (from 8th June)
Heathrow to Sao Paulo Guarulhos: 1 daily 777-300ER (from 16th June)
Heathrow to Singapore: 777-300ER operates alternating days
Heathrow to Tel Aviv: 1 daily A350-1000XWB 4 x Weekly 777-300ER
Heathrow to Toronto: 1 daily 787-8 (from 16th June)
Heathrow to Washington Dulles: 1 daily A350-1000XWB

BA currently lists London Heathrow – Beijing Daxing (from 14JUN20) and London Heathrow – Shanghai Pu Dong schedule for June 2020, however only following booking class open for reservation: A / C / E / B. Both routes scheduled as alternating days service.


Short haul routes
British Airways in recent schedule update filed planned European operations for the month of June 2020. From London Heathrow, the oneWorld carrier plans to resume additional routes, offering 316 weekly flight departures (based on 10MAY20 OAG schedules data), instead of 1750 weekly listed as of 15MAR20.

As of 10MAY20, schedule listing also sees BA CityFlyer resumes operation, offering service from London City, Edinburgh and Glasgow from 01JUN20, while London Gatwick departures to be resumed by 01JUL20. Due to ongoing development, these plan may see further modification in the next few days.

Edinburgh – Florence 2 weekly
Edinburgh – Palma Mallorca 1 weekly
Glasgow – Palma Mallorca 1 weekly
London City – Amsterdam 16 weekly
London City – Berlin Tegel 9 weekly
London City – Dublin 17 weekly
London City – Edinburgh 17 weekly
London City – Florence 4 weekly
London City – Frankfurt 9 weekly
London City – Glasgow 13 weekly
London City – Ibiza 4 weekly
London City – Isle of Man 6 weekly
London City – Milan Linate 11 weekly
London City – Nice 4 weekly
London City – Rotterdam 15 weekly
London Heathrow – Aberdeen 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Amsterdam 14 weekly
London Heathrow – Athens eff 19JUN20 3 weekly
London Heathrow – Barcelona 14 weekly
London Heathrow – Basel/Mulhouse 4 weekly
London Heathrow – Belfast City 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Berlin Tegel 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Bologna 3 weekly
London Heathrow – Brussels 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Bucharest 4 weekly
London Heathrow – Budapest 10 weekly
London Heathrow – Copenhagen 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Dalaman 1 weekly
London Heathrow – Dublin 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Dusseldorf 6 weekly
London Heathrow – Edinburgh 14 weekly
London Heathrow – Faro 6 weekly
London Heathrow – Geneva 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Gibraltar 4 weekly
London Heathrow – Glasgow 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Ibiza 11 weekly
London Heathrow – Istanbul 3 weekly
London Heathrow – Krakow 3 weekly
London Heathrow – Larnaca eff 18JUN20 3 weekly
London Heathrow – Lisbon 11 weekly
London Heathrow – Madrid 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Malaga 4 weekly
London Heathrow – Manchester 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Milan Linate 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Moscow Domodedovo 14 weekly
London Heathrow – Moscow Sheremetyevo 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Munich 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Nice 11 weekly
London Heathrow – Oslo 4 weekly
London Heathrow – Palma Mallorca 13 weekly
London Heathrow – Paris CDG 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Prague 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Reykjavik Keflavik 3 weekly
London Heathrow – Rome 11 weekly
London Heathrow – Sofia 3 weekly
London Heathrow – Split 5 weekly
London Heathrow – Stockholm Arlanda 7 weekly
London Heathrow – Tenerife South 2 weekly
London Heathrow – Valencia 4 weekly
London Heathrow – Venice 10 weekly
London Heathrow – Warsaw 3 weekly
London Heathrow – Zagreb 3 weekly
London Heathrow – Zurich 7 weekly
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Covid-19 flight operations | latest route info and schedule changes

Old Mar 15, 2020, 10:29 am
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Covid-19 flight operations | latest route info and schedule changes

With so many travel restrictions in place and flights being cancelled, which routes are or do we think will remain open?

I imagine until the UK brings in restrictions similar to Italy or Spain, people to remain at home, closure of bars and restaurants, internal flights will remain in place.

Is it safe to book London to Edinburgh or Glasgow with a degree of certainry?

Where else?

Where have there been no travel restrictions or flight cancellations?
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 10:30 am
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My prediction (which is pessimistic) is that with the current speed of things developing there will be a complete halt of operations at some point.

I hope I am wrong.
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 10:32 am
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Originally Posted by florens
My prediction (which is pessimistic) is that with the current speed of things developing there will be a complete halt of operations at some point.

I hope I am wrong.
I certainly hope not, some of us still need to get places and get to families!
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 10:32 am
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Originally Posted by Fatdickie
With so many travel restrictions in place and flights being cancelled, which routes are or do we think will remain open?

I imagine until the UK brings in restrictions similar to Italy or Spain, people to remain at home, closure of bars and restaurants, internal flights will remain in place.

Is it safe to book London to Edinburgh or Glasgow with a degree of certainry?

Where else?

Where have there been no travel restrictions or flight cancellations?
For now Brazil is still open, but not to sure how long that will last.

You can find all the countries with restrictions here Covid-19 Entry restrictions repository for BA Routes *INFO ONLY Noise-Free*
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 10:36 am
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Originally Posted by nufnuf77
I certainly hope not, some of us still need to get places and get to families!
I think our collective need to get places is going to have to very much take a back seat for the time being. Our company has cancelled all corporate travel and I have decided not to risk booking anything more personally. I accept there will be some essential travel required but I think people are going to have to recalibrate as to what is normal in what clearly are exceptional times.
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 11:04 am
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Well I believe you can still get to Mexico... which given we have a holiday there with TUI on the 10th April is a very mixed blessing - right now I think my desire for a week of sun is overridden with a desire to stay put.

I have little doubt it will be cancelled but right now it's still on, and in fact TUI are still selling holidays to Mexico on that date...
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 11:07 am
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Originally Posted by florens
My prediction (which is pessimistic) is that with the current speed of things developing there will be a complete halt of operations at some point.

I hope I am wrong.
I've heard its Tuesday. Both Iberia and BA (maybe rest of IAG too). Not looking good. Announcement of something major tomorrow morning when the markets open. There was a meeting today at Waterside.
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 11:11 am
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Originally Posted by george77300
I've heard its Tuesday. Both Iberia and BA (maybe rest of IAG too). Not looking good. Announcement of something major tomorrow morning when the markets open. There was a meeting today at Waterside.
not sure if this has been picked up elsewhere but SAS appear to have announced effective commercial shutdown from tomorrow: essentially getting people home and then national infrastructure flights as required.

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Old Mar 15, 2020, 11:13 am
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The thing is probably less the getting to somewhere, it is the getting back. The issue with exponential growth is that a destination may appear perfectly safe, and a week later it has gone to the dogs. The situation is extremely fluid, think of Spain: it was not really on the corona map, and then pretty much over night it jumped to number 5 of the global leader board, and now you are not allowed to leave the house.

I for one will re-assess the situation as it evolves, where BA cancels I will request a refund, where they don't I will take the travel voucher. In the meantime I shall panic buy chocolate (as of yet easy to get) and keep netflix streaming.
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 11:14 am
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My girlfriend’s housemate had her Ba holiday to Punta Cana cancelled today, despite the outbound flight operating. They said in the message they might to be able to guarantee they’d be able to get her back, which would figure if they’re stopping operations on Tuesday.
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 11:22 am
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I’d say about 90% of flights cancelled. Don’t forget even in Italy there are still flights operating with Alitalia so I don’t see a complete shutdown
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 11:25 am
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Originally Posted by Fatdickie
Is it safe to book London to Edinburgh or Glasgow with a degree of certainry?
It depends on your interpretation of safe (i.e. what you stand stand to lose) and on how far out you are looking. I would guess you could book with a degree of certainty (maybe even approaching 100%) for travel this week. Looking further ahead it gets increasingly uncertain unless you have inside-track information that the UK government has already decided it will in no circumstances follow other European countries in restricting all non-essential travel. Ultimately that would be a political decision but it would be influenced by how successful current measures turn out to be in slowing the epidemic's progress. That's a lot of imponderables - too many to be talking about certainties at this stage.
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 11:43 am
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Bermuda have introduced 14 day self-isolation rules starting on Tuesday. So that's our trip on Friday buggered.
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 12:10 pm
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Originally Posted by Mike P
I think our collective need to get places is going to have to very much take a back seat for the time being. Our company has cancelled all corporate travel and I have decided not to risk booking anything more personally. I accept there will be some essential travel required but I think people are going to have to recalibrate as to what is normal in what clearly are exceptional times.
I don't care about your collective needs, I want to be with my wife!
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Old Mar 15, 2020, 12:21 pm
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Presumably the essential destinations for a skeleton service would be domestic services for which alternative routes are non-existent or impossible? JER, INV, possibly EDI and GLA depending on the government’s plans for trains spring to mind.
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