marshy11

We are doing the same on 13 May. I'm expecting a cancellation 2 weeks before.

Joeykins

I assume that they're phasing in May's cancellations in order to avoid overwhelming the call centre. I've got MAN-LHR-ORD on the 7th May on the later flight, no sign of cancellation yet but I'm fairly sure it's coming

AleTrail

BA1327 NCL-LHR 8th May
BA1336 LHR-NCL 10th May
Cancelled by BA yesterday

DreamTrip

All GOT flights cancelled through end of May.

Tobias-UK

I too have reservations in May; LAS (1st May), SIN, LAX, SYD and HKG with all flights in those itineraries showing as operating. I also have short haul flights showing as operating this month including this week, I'm resigned to the fact there is virtually no chance of any of those trips gong ahead.

These trips are necessary so not wanting refunds. I will wait for the inevitable cancellations so I can rebook them to travel at the earliest opportunity. As with all things in these crazy times I'm finding patience is becoming second nature.

Dan1113

Easy to get a refund over the phone for my lux flight. Told to wait a month for the refund though.

checkerboard

This would make sense, yes, But if it really was the case that they were working towards an organized wind-down of services for May, why would they keep selling seats on routes they don't intend to operate?

alexwuk

I just had Milan flights for the second May bank holiday (22-25th) cancelled, seems pretty aggressive given Italy might potentially be exiting down by then - I guess BA take a dim view of recovery prospects

Scotflyer80

INV - HIAL the operator announced on the 26th March that the airport would be closing to all scheduled flights and routine general aviation traffic from 29th March. The airport has said it will remain closed until current government guidance on social distancing remains in place. HIAL have said that the airport will remain closed for very short period of time once current guidance is relaxed.

NCL - I know this post is about flights in May. However the reason BA suspended the route in the first place might be the same reason it was dropped in for May

BA were advised on 26th March by the airports management of the intention to restrict the hours of operation from 30th March. From 30th March the airports daily hours of operation were reduced from 24 down to just 4 with flights restricted to operate between 0800-1200 daily. ATC, Airfield Ops, Ground Handling and Terminal Facilities all operate during the restricted hours. Airlines operating at NCL are restricted to the same operational times. The airport and ATC is now closed daily at 1201-0759 daily. The restricted hours are planned to continue to at least early May.

Of the 25 flights scheduled to operate to LHR over the next 14 days, there were only 3 that would have been able to operate. With only couple of days before the new restrictions BA decided to cancel its flights as the only way Of making the restriction daily would involve having to make changes to more than one other route. NCL have made further changes since the route was suspended. Number of operational days now varies between 4 and 5 weekly.

With no sign of NCL ending there current restrictions and with no indications by the airport to increase current 5 x weekly operation with Daily. BA probably decided to cancel the route due the airports very restrictive guarantee and no guarantee from NCL that the airport would operate daily in May.

layz

Thanks for this. I had read the following on the NCL website:
That was in the Covid FAQ section, I hadn't noticed this in the main text above the FAQ. I guess it's difficult for the airports to keep things up to date in all places.
It's the same yesterday when I looked at the LHR website. It mentioned T3 and 4 will close over the coming weeks but the FAQ said all terminals were remaining open.

davidmcguinness

I think all Italy flights have been suspended until June now, although if needed (and Italy allows entry) AZ have a decent number of flights LHR-FCO and then connecting domestic flights. So if Italy reopens in May I'll look at booking on Alitalia.

I'm glad to see BA has done its bit to make me sign up to FlyerTalk (usually just lurk) with BA refund helper as I was having difficulty getting through on the phone and trying to access MMB directs me to the new style page where the JavaScript hack doesn't work. We shouldn't need BA refund helper but we certainly appreciate his efforts.

corporate-wage-slave

And I'm also glad to see you here. Welcome to Flyertalk and welcome to the BA forum davidmcguinness, it's good of you to join up here, if everyone lurked it wouldn't be very interesting!

Tilly71

Is it true that BA are cancelling flights departing LGW only 2 x weeks before departure dates? Our route still being sold May 1st.

T8191

BA are working through the cancellation list on one hand, whilst still speculatively selling on the other. It’s very confusing for we common mortals! I coukd suggest they’re hoing to get some cash bookings to help them over the hump!!

A bunch of us here have LGW flights to/from a non-operating airport to other non-operating airports ... we’re just waiting for our 10/11 May flights on 2 closed routes to 2 closed airports to be formally cancelled. 🤪

corporate-wage-slave

Looking at my LGW cancellation flow, I'd say you are about 5 or 6 days away from being cancelled. There is a good reason to stagger the cancellations, namely to give some chance of getting through to the Contact Centres. I've had 8 LGW cancellations for April and May now.