BA suspend Gatwick – Newquay flights
02.08.08
British Airways announced yesterday that it will withdraw scheduled operations from four Gatwick short-haul routes, including its daily flights to Newquay Cornwall Airport, and that plans to start two new services from Gatwick have also been scrapped. The suspended routes, from October 26, are the daily services to Newquay, Dresden in Germany, Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Poznan in Poland.
The airline is cutting the routes as part of a wider programme to reduce costs across its route network in the face of record fuel costs. BA recommenced flights to Newquay in March 2007, operating midday services with Boeing 737 aircraft, timed to complement the higher frequency services of Air Southwest, which also operates on the route. The last BA flight to Newquay will be Saturday, 25 October, 2008. Air Southwest will continue to operate four daily flights on the route throughout the year. Ryanair meanwhile is continuing with its flights from Stansted.
BA is reducing frequencies on a number of routes out of Heathrow and Gatwick this winter. Services from Heathrow to New York and Tokyo will also be reduced.
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