News: BA launches summer schedule
Flights > News > # 716 (22/03/2006)
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British Airways will launch its first ever flights to Albania and Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast this summer and increase longhaul capacity following the conversion of four shorthaul Boeing 767s into longhaul aircraft.
Six new destinations will be served from London Gatwick airport with flights starting from March 26, 2006. They are:
- Tirana, Albania’s capital, with three flights each week
- Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, with five flights each week
- Varna, on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, with two flights each week rising to four flights each week from June 2006
- Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city, with three flights each week rising to four flights each week from June 2006
- Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, with three flights each week
- Athens with four flights each week (also served by BA flights from London Heathrow)
In addition, services to the Latvian capital Riga move from London Heathrow to London Gatwick.
The airline is reconfiguring four shorthaul Boeing 767s into longhaul aircraft. Together with improvements in aircraft utilisation, this will enable the number of longhaul flights to be increased by seven per cent to more than 1200 each week compared to last summer.
Flights from London Heathrow to Delhi will double to two flights each day and, from June 2006, there will be increased flights to a number of north American destinations. Services to both Montreal and Seattle will increase from seven to 10 each week, Toronto flights will increase from 17 to 21 each week and services to Vancouver will rise from 10 to 13 each week.
Flights from London Gatwick to Bermuda will increase from five each week to a daily service from March 26, 2006.
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