British Airways is planning to add the A380 back into its
fleet from November as it prepares to operate its biggest flight schedule since
March 2020.
Following the news that the US will allow non-citizen travellers
from Europe and the UK to enter in early November, BA will initially fly the
A380 on short-haul routes to allow for crew service familiarisation followed by
operating to Miami and Los Angeles in the US, as well as Dubai in December.
The airline is set to fly to 23 US airports this winter with
up to 246 flights a week. In addition to restarting services, BA will also
increase frequencies to New York, initially to five a day followed by eight in
December. It will also operate double-daily services to Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Washington, Dallas, Miami and Toronto, as well as daily flights
to Philadelphia, Phoenix, Seattle, Atlanta, Denver, Houston and Vancouver.
In October and November, BA will restart services to Austin,
Orlando, Tampa, San Diego, Las Vegas and Baltimore.
The carrier has also increased flights to a number of
short-haul destinations including Marrakech and Dalaman and will launch flights
to Antalya. It will restart services to Innsbruck, Grenoble and Salzburg in
December, while operations from either Heathrow or Gatwick to Barbados, Antigua,
St Lucia, Maldives and Mauritius will be extended over the Christmas period.
Elsewhere, BA says it will be increasing year-round flights
to European cities with 48 weekly services to Amsterdam, 33 to Geneva, 35 to
Dublin, 28 to Milan and 21 each to Berlin, Paris and Rome.
Subsidiary BA CityFlyer is expected to operate a schedule
of 43 weekly flights to Edinburgh, 33 to Dublin, 25 to Glasgow, 18 to Belfast,
16 to Amsterdam, 15 to Rotterdam, 15 to Berlin, 12 to Frankfurt, 12 to
Dusseldorf and 11 to Zurich, all from London City airport. The airline is also set to launch a new route from
Belfast to Birmingham and from London City and Southampton to Salzburg.
British Airways lounges are also reopening, with customers
welcomed back to its Concorde Room in London and New York in September. Lounges
in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and Houston are expected to reopen this
week.