British Airways will be making a return to London Stansted Airport (STN). This means British Airways will once again serve four London-area airports, complementing Heathrow Airport (LHR), Gatwick Airport (LGW), and City Airport (LCY).
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Uhm since when is LCY closed on weekends? Pretty sure that it's open on Saturdays and Sundays, albeit with a more restrictive opening schedule (I believe later departure times and earlier arrivals than on weekdays).
Also, upon doing a quick dummy booking via google flights, you can see that there are departures and arrivals @LCY every day of the week.
@ Ben Holz -- Sorry, I should have been clearer about the airport being closed over select weekend hours. I updated the post to reflect that.
Ben the times don't seem to be correct for these (at least based on the dates I checked).
They leave Europe to Stansted on Saturday afternoons and fly back from Stansted on Sunday.
There isn't any positioning, three aircraft operate LCY-FLR-STN / LCY-IBZ-STN / LCY-NCE-STN on Saturday and vv on Sunday. One of them (Ibiza frame I believe) also operates a Calvi charter on Sunday morning
Ben - There is no "short positioning flight" from LCY to STN or reverse. First, the climate people would go crazy but more importantly, it would make these operations highly uneconomical. You suggest the "opportunity cost is nearly zero" but if BA was planning on operating empty flights to position aircraft on a regular bais, that is a significant cost.
Rather, look at the rotations - they all start in outstations and fly to STN and then return back with one RON there. Not the same outstation - the flights do not always turn themselves in other words...
Right?!
Was gonna say, no way in the era of freaks-gluing-themselves-to-runways, is a European airline going to risk operating scheduled ferry flights, solely for weekend leisurely 1offs.
The bad press alone would probably not be worth whatever revenue is garnered.
Not a surprise that London Airways add more flights to another London airport.
Am I right in saying that British Airways currently operate no international flights from anywhere in the UK outside of London?
“Am I right in saying that British Airways currently operate no international flights from anywhere in the UK outside of London?”
BA added seasonal flights from EDI to San Sebastian Airport (EAS) and Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (OLB).
Its like BA thought how can we make the customer experience worse and decided the easiest way to do this would be to have people to go to stansted, a horrid airport filled with low cost passengers at least half of which dont understand that they cant carry a fridge worth of liquids in their hand luggage, slow security lines operated by staff who assume that everyone has a fridge worth of liquids in their hand luggage, toilets that always have queues out of the door, one single lounge (which also doesnt bother having regular toilets) that you can never get in and an infinitely annoying shuttle between gates that seems to pretend its a train but is actually on wheels.
Its no surprise that and manchester airport are owned by the same company!