August 2021 flight cancellations and operational changes
Jul 5, 2021, 9:00 am
#121
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: San Diego
Programs: Plat Pro AAdvantage, but defected to BAEC
Posts: 1,222
Interesting view. I am of the opposite opinion, I think leisure travel will recover much more quickly than business travel and that 8-10 flights a day to JFK might never be seen again. Secondary cities with the 787 and LGW 777s were a huge success prior to COVID and I think they will be after. The short haul network looks different today than in 2019, with much lower frequency but quite a few new leisure or "LGW" destinations. Overall I think the BA route map will look broadly similar, but the frequency will be down.
I do think/hope that there will be a VFR rush and that the TATL routes open back up again
Jul 5, 2021, 9:09 am
#122
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver, ZSL Silver
Posts: 2,552
i’m with you on that thought. I flew back Stateside last Sunday on a LHR-DFW-SAN route. I was talking to the FA and declined another drink as I said to them that I had another 3hr flight in addition to the TATL, so had better pace myself. They asked where I was going and when I said SAN they commented that there were more than a few people on board with the same routing.
I do think/hope that there will be a VFR rush and that the TATL routes open back up again
I do think/hope that there will be a VFR rush and that the TATL routes open back up again
Jul 5, 2021, 2:11 pm
#123
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: SEA once more (previously CDG and NRT)
Programs: Former DL DM and UA 1k, now a J class free agent (UA Gold, AS MVP Gold)
Posts: 2,450
My LHR-SEA has been downgauged from a 787-10 to a 787-9 - no club suite, instead, the crappy outdated product. 
Jul 5, 2021, 4:20 pm
#124
Join Date: May 2008
Location: "the world is my country"
Programs: Alaska 100K (aka OWS)
Posts: 811
BA 52, SEA-LHR
BA 53 LHR-SEA
This does not seem to encourage loyalty.
Jul 6, 2021, 3:29 am
#127
Join Date: May 2020
Programs: BA Gold, HH Diamond
Posts: 97
Just had my LHR-SCL in F at the end of August cancelled. This is the 5th time this flight has been cancelled and rebooked since the start of the pandemic...
I'll try again for September - wish me luck.
Any guesses as to the chances of South America coming off the red list by then?
I'll try again for September - wish me luck.
Any guesses as to the chances of South America coming off the red list by then?
Jul 6, 2021, 5:25 am
#129
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 2,575
Just had my LHR-SCL in F at the end of August cancelled. This is the 5th time this flight has been cancelled and rebooked since the start of the pandemic...
I'll try again for September - wish me luck.
Any guesses as to the chances of South America coming off the red list by then?
I'll try again for September - wish me luck.
Any guesses as to the chances of South America coming off the red list by then?
Jul 6, 2021, 7:03 am
#130
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Arizona
Programs: BA (GGL G4L), AA (Gold), HH (Diamond); Marriott (Gold)
Posts: 3,011
Jul 6, 2021, 8:33 am
#132
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 3,440
It will be interesting to see if some of these decisions get reversed when the double jabbed relaxation comes in.
Jul 6, 2021, 8:52 am
#133
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Teaneck, NJ
Programs: AA L.T. Plat; UA Platinum
Posts: 328
Pardon if this has been asked before but cannot find it in forum search.BA has cancelled my August JFK-LHR-JNB and return flights (continuing from JNB to LUN on 4Z, but that flight still operates). JFK-LHR-_JNB-LUN all on one PNR. What are the chances that BA would rebook on QR as a One World partner since QR now serves LUN. Cannot reach my tour operator who in turn has to reach his flight consolidator. And BA will not talk to me since ticket was booked by travel agent.
Jul 6, 2021, 10:43 am
#134
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: London
Programs: Sir Ratechaser Seigneur de la Patience d'un Saint (Mucci), BA Silver, Starbucks Gold
Posts: 2,566
Looks like RHO rotations being thinned out. Both legs of my 15-29 Aug trip cancelled... yet another call needed to sort out an auto rebook that doesn't work for us...
Jul 6, 2021, 11:27 am
#135
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold, HHonours, SPG, AVIS
Posts: 527
we’ve had our flight on the 8th cancelled as well, but the return on the 20th at the moment still seems to be running