British Airways has this week started daily services from Heathrow
to Johannesburg and Cape Town and three times weekly flights to Bahrain. It
will also add three times weekly flights to Lahore, a new addition to British Airways’ route network, from
12 October
The airline has also announced the restart of short-haul services
to Brussels, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Gothenburg, Milan Linate, Stuttgart, Seville,
Valencia, Bilbao, Kefalonia and Luxembourg. Later in the month, services will
resume to destinations including Billund, Bordeaux, Basel, Cologne, Malta,
Salzburg, Vienna and Zagreb.
The airline has introduced a range of Covid safety measures including
asking passengers to:
· check in
online, download their boarding pass and where possible self-scan their
boarding passes at the departure gate;
· observe
social distancing and use hand sanitisers that are placed throughout airports;
· wear a
facemask at all times and bring enough to replace them every four hours for
longer flights;
· not travel
if they think they have any symptoms of Covid-19;
· ensure
they have everything they need from their hand luggage before departure, and
where possible, store their carry-on bag under the seat in front of them.
BA is offering a new food service, which reduces the
number of interactions required with customers, and will provide passengers with a personal protection pack including a sealable disposal bag, hand sanitising
gel and an antibacterial wipe.
The
carrier is cleaning all key surfaces including seats, screens, seat buckles and
tray tables after every flight and each aircraft is completely cleaned from
nose to tail every day. The air on all British Airways flights is fully recycled once every two to three
minutes through HEPA filters, which remove microscopic bacteria and virus
clusters with over 99.9% efficiency, equivalent to hospital operating theatre
standards.