BRITISH AIRWAYS is to make some changes to its route network for the start of the winter season on Sunday 31 October and will bring in some more next summer. For the winter there are three new services to Switzerland with flights from Heathrow to Basle, which will operate three times per day, and Gatwick to Zurich, twice daily. BA CitiExpress fly from Birmingham to Geneva on Saturdays during the ski season between December 2004 and April 2005. On long haul, weekly flights to Cape Town will go up from ten to 12, Dubai flights will rise from 17 to 19 per week and Miami will increase from 14 to 16 per week. Flights to Nassau in the Bahamas gain an extra rotation from five to six per week and services to the Turks and Caicos Islands double to two per week. From late March 2005 new Gatwick services will include four flights per week to Salonika in Greece, three flights per week to Split in Croatia and five flights per week to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Next summer the Gatwick ” Paris CDG flights will be dropped. It will be interesting to see if easyJet make a bid for the route, with its major presence at both airports. It might be a question of slots?
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