British Airways is to add to its growing number of routes served out of London City Airport, with a new service to Venice launching in September.
BA’s online reservations shows that flights are already loaded into the system for travel on the new route from September 17.
Flight BA8479 will depart London City at 11.00 on weekdays and 15.00 on Sundays, arriving at 14.05 and 18.05 respectively.
The return leg BA8480 will leave Venice at 14.45 on weekdays and 19.00 on Sundays, landing back into London City at 15.50 and 20.05 respectively.
Flights will be served by BA’s Cityflyer subsidiary using Embraer E190SR aircraft. BA has now become the biggest airline at London City and will have 14 aircraft based at the airport from late summer.
BA currently serves Venice’s Marco Polo airport from both Heathrow and Gatwick, while Ryanair flies between Stansted and Treviso airport (located about 20 miles from Venice city centre), and both Easyjet and Monarch operate between Gatwick and Marco Polo.
As well as the new Venice flight, BA is increasing frequency of its Frankfurt flights from three to four a day while Glasgow services will rise from five to six per day from September.
The airline is also beginning new services from London City to Menorca plus Quimper and Angers in France from May.
Peter Simpson, managing director BA subsidiary airline BA CityFlyer, said: “We are very excited about the arrival of our 14th aircraft which will add frequency to existing business destinations and has opened up new flying possibilities to popular leisure destinations.”