BRITISH AIRWAYS is to axe a whole series of CitiExpress routes from Birmingham and Manchester from the start of the winter season at the end of October describing them as ”mainly leisure”. Out go flights from Manchester to Pisa, Rome, Stuttgart, Zurich, Nice, Venice, Shannon and Cork and services from Birmingham to Vienna and Rome. Some are already flown by budget carriers and both airports are optimistic that low cost airlines will take up the vacated routes. BA”s view is that CitiExpress needs to focus on profitable point-to-point business routes. Even with competition from the budget carriers, typically Gatwick ” Inverness, they can work well says the airline.
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