BA cancels 10,000 short-haul flights to/from LHR, Oct 22 - Mar 23
Aug 22, 22, 9:27 am
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BA cancels 10,000 short-haul flights to/from LHR, Oct 22 - Mar 23
BBC article
Deep joy…
From the text of the article:
“British Airways will cut roughly 10,000 short-haul flights to and from Heathrow Airport between late October and March.
The move is aimed at minimising disruption over the winter and some long-haul flights will be affected, the airline said.
BA said it will also cut a dozen round-trips per day - totalling 629 flights - until the end of October.”
Edit: they changed the title of the article from 5k to 10k as I posted it so I was not intending to be as silly as I look!
Edit2: fixed by a generous Mod- thanks!
Deep joy…
From the text of the article:
“British Airways will cut roughly 10,000 short-haul flights to and from Heathrow Airport between late October and March.
The move is aimed at minimising disruption over the winter and some long-haul flights will be affected, the airline said.
BA said it will also cut a dozen round-trips per day - totalling 629 flights - until the end of October.”
Edit: they changed the title of the article from 5k to 10k as I posted it so I was not intending to be as silly as I look!
Edit2: fixed by a generous Mod- thanks!
Last edited by crazy8534; Aug 22, 22 at 2:38 pm
Aug 22, 22, 10:08 am
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BA have clearly decided that it is more profitable not to fly than to recruit staff and actually be an airline. This really is pretty shameful given the pleading , begging and grandstanding they performed over the re opening of the aviation sector during covid.
Doyle is a useless as the last "gilets jaunes" clown that ran the business, but at least he was visible. Doyle is simply an invisible malevolent force.
I do have short-haul flight booked of next week, Nov, Dec, Jan, Apr and Jun next year. Thankfully no long haul whatsoever with other one world airlines flying those as I simply cannot rely on BA to operate. (yes I appreciate it is only shortfall that is affected) but the whole message being given out, after almost a full year or normality, is that they cannot cope and it is chaotic. More hours of misery for many on the phones!!
Doyle is a useless as the last "gilets jaunes" clown that ran the business, but at least he was visible. Doyle is simply an invisible malevolent force.
I do have short-haul flight booked of next week, Nov, Dec, Jan, Apr and Jun next year. Thankfully no long haul whatsoever with other one world airlines flying those as I simply cannot rely on BA to operate. (yes I appreciate it is only shortfall that is affected) but the whole message being given out, after almost a full year or normality, is that they cannot cope and it is chaotic. More hours of misery for many on the phones!!
Aug 22, 22, 10:12 am
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The UK government really needs to take back slots from BA and allocates them to other UK airlines like Virgin Atlantic, who is willing to play a larger part.
They need a second major UK airline based in Heathrow to give BA some major competitions.
Maybe BA can take the downturn to speed up the installation of the Club World Suites, but labor shortage means the poor Club World catering on long haul flights will continue.
Why can't European airlines get their acts together?
Carfield
They need a second major UK airline based in Heathrow to give BA some major competitions.
Maybe BA can take the downturn to speed up the installation of the Club World Suites, but labor shortage means the poor Club World catering on long haul flights will continue.
Why can't European airlines get their acts together?
Carfield
Aug 22, 22, 10:24 am
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I do think it is high time that customers - especially those of us who (reasonably or not) use BA on a regular basis - get a full and clear explanation. I’m an eternal optimist, but I am genuinely starting to wonder if BA would rather do something other than ship folk around the world.
Aug 22, 22, 10:25 am
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Be very careful booking BA domestics, especially with onward connections. I bet BA wishes it still had a European/Domestic configured wide bodied aircraft. Anyone got a spare high density 787 spare? JAL and ANA do it very well on their domestics - but yes, they are in a different league.
Aug 22, 22, 10:29 am
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5000 sounds a big number, but it prbabaly works out at about 25 to 30 flights a day which in the grand scheme of things probably isn't a lot
Aug 22, 22, 10:32 am
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Originally Posted by Carfield
The UK government really needs to take back slots from BA and allocates them to other UK airlines like Virgin Atlantic, who is willing to play a larger part.
They need a second major UK airline based in Heathrow to give BA some major competitions.
They need a second major UK airline based in Heathrow to give BA some major competitions.
If they aren't in a position to fly, put the slots up for someone that is.
Aug 22, 22, 10:35 am
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Originally Posted by scottishpoet
5000 sounds a big number, but it prbabaly works out at about 25 to 30 flights a day which in the grand scheme of things probably isn't a lot
Aug 22, 22, 10:52 am
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Originally Posted by HIDDY
I agree....hardly the doomsday scenario some folk are making it out to be. I suspect LHR have to take some of the blame as well.
Aug 22, 22, 10:54 am
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Originally Posted by Carfield
Why can't European airlines get their acts together?
Carfield
Aug 22, 22, 11:01 am
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It is pretty pisspoor now - but at least their duty of care refunds department is running very smoothly with all the practice they’re getting 
Aug 22, 22, 11:04 am
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Originally Posted by ermis177
Can’t see any doomsday scenarios. What I see is an airline unable to deal with some very basic stuff such as hiring people, being able to offer some kind of premium product or even having 1 person at Heathrow that can actually amend/make a ticket reservation…
Aug 22, 22, 11:05 am
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Originally Posted by HIDDY
I agree....hardly the doomsday scenario some folk are making it out to be. I suspect LHR have to take some of the blame as well.
BA can only run the flights they have planes, crews, passengers and HAL permissions for.
