Spanish low-cost carrier Vueling is to extend its new Heathrow to Barcelona route to a year-round service.
Vueling, which is a sister carrier to British Airways as part of IAG, launched the daily Heathrow-Barcelona route on December 17 and had originally planned to operate it until February 25. But the airline will now make it a permanent route.
The carrier is also due to begin flights from Luton for summer 2016 starting with a route to Amsterdam Schiphol from March 18. This will initially operate as a daily service before becoming twice daily from April 30.
Vueling will also run a Luton-Barcelona route from June 1, which will offer 13 weekly flights in both directions.
Adding Luton takes the number of UK and Irish airports from which Vueling operates up to 12 including Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast and Dublin.
Vueling’s current CEO Alex Cruz is set to take over as the executive chairman of BA in April 2016.