British Airways Expands Leisure Network from London City

British Airways CityFlyer, the UK national carrier’s London City-based division, is to expand its summer sun routes from the Docklands’ airport this year with new connections to the popular leisure destination of Mahon in Spain and Angers and Quimper in France. The new routes will expand its network from London City to 21 destinations across the UK, Europe and of course its single transatlantic link to New York in USA.

The flights will commence in May and the three times weekly service to Mahon in Menorca, which will open from May 25, will complete the airline’s existing flights to the fellow Balearic Islands of Ibiza and Mallorca, which were launched last year. The three times weekly flight to Angers in the Loire Valley will start from May 29 and the twice weekly route to Quimper in Brittany will begin on May 30.

“We are very excited about the new routes which are completely new destinations for London City Airport. and offer our customers even more holiday choices ,” said Luke Hayhoe, General Manager Commercial, British Airways CityFlyer. “We’re sure that these new routes coupled with British Airways’ all inclusive fares and London City’s unique 20 minute check-in will be a hit this summer.”

There are currently no direct flights to Angers Loire Airport or Quimper – Cornouaille Airport from the UK but there is a lot of competition to Mahon, a destination that is mainly flown on a seasonal basis by seven UK carriers from 18 different airports. An estimated 252,000 O&D passengers travelled between Mahon and the UK on scheduled services in the past year, with around 81.1 per cent of these passengers beginning or ending their journeys at one of the London airports.

We are pleased to confirm that UBM Aviation Routes played a role in facilitating these new services as discussions between the airline and representatives of the two groups that manage the destination airports in France and Spain took place during last year’s Routes Europe event in Cagliari, Italy and the World Routes forum in Berlin, Germany.