British Airways

[lbaspotter]

British Airways are set to announce 5x weekly (Mon, Thu, Fri, Sat & Sun) 3 month summer seasonal Newquay to London Heathrow route. Flights will start July 2nd and run until September 7th 2020 with return fares from £90.

http://travelweekly.co.uk/articles/3...-heathrow-link

 

[Jerry]

Didn't see that coming!

 

[Jerry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1227527998330605570

 

[lbaspotter]

With that flight schedule the you can tell its a slot sitter exercise for 2 month period.

The Monday, Friday & Sunday timings are absolutely use less for outbound connections unless you stay overnight at Heathrow, because you'll miss the all important evening wave of outbound long haul departures

Thursday's have the best flight timings as they are ideal for both inbound and outbound connections.

The Saturday outbound connections will be very good but inbound won't be, thats unless you've stayed at Heathrow overnight or come in on one of the very early moring long haul arrivals.

 

[Jerry]

With that flight schedule you can tell its a slot sitter exercise for 2 month period.

They are probably looking at it more as a holiday destination at the moment but also it'll be a bit of a political statement against what is happening with Flybe.
The key for Newquay will be to get them to at least come back in 2021 even just for a full summer.

 

[KARFA]

With that flight schedule the you can tell its a slot sitter exercise for 2 month period.

Over the summer so maybe geared towards leisure primarily? Also a nice chance to stick the boot in to FlyBE

 

[lbaspotter]

Over the summer so maybe geared towards leisure primarily? Also a nice chance to stick the boot in to FlyBE

Looks like the using Airbus A319's on the new Heathrow - Newquay route. The service will also operate under the "Shuttle" callsign and "SHT" flight numbers for ATC purposes.

Must admit that Sunday evening slot pair BA would do well using it on the LBA route. Especially that 19:10 departure if used on a northbound.

 

[lbaspotter]

Full British Airways new summer 2020 London Heathrow - Newquay route schedule.

Monday
BA1350 = LHR 18:05 - NQY 19:15 / BA1351 = NQY 20:15 - LHR 21:25
Thursday
BA1350 = LHR 07:00 - NQY 08:10 / BA1351 = NQY 09:10 - LHR 10:20
Friday
BA1350 = LHR 18:05 - NQY 19:15 / BA1351 = NQY 20:15 - LHR 21:25
Saturday
BA1350 = LHR 06:40 - NQY 07:50 / BA1351 = NQY 09:55 - LHR 11:05
Sunday
BA1350 = LHR 19:10 - NQY 20:20 / BA1351 = NQY 21:25 - LHR 22:35

 

[forest1979]

Interesting.. Mr Walsh clearly looked at my post...
Absolutely a slot sitter. Encouraging but let’s see what materialises from it. It’s deffo a two fingers to FLYBE.
a daily morning slots would be great...

 

[Ashley.S.]

Funny how a route that apparently needs a PSO subsidy to run can suddenly be commercially viable, I wonder if BA is expecting FlyBe/Virgin Connect to completely fold and are doing this to test the waters as they say...

 

[KARFA]

Funny how a route that apparently needs a PSO subsidy to run can suddenly be commercially viable, I wonder if BA is expecting FlyBe/Virgin Connect to completely fold and are doing this to test the waters as they say...

I suspect a large factor for BA is just doing this as a spoiling tactic towards BE. I hope it does stick though and perhaps BA may do it year round, I am off to try the new route in July.

 

[Ashley.S.]

I know there have been lots of concerns with mixed reviews in regards to the switch to Gatwick away from Heathrow so this is certainly welcome news!

 

[superking]

I get the feeling LHR slots are in the mix some where.

 

[Jerry]

BA will operate a 1 daily flight from Heathrow to Newquay starting 7th September.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1263055411252465664

 

[Jerry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1279090616035618816

https://twitter.com/x/status/1279090619646910464