British Airways adds African flights, new products, improved connections
British Airways is growing its African
frequencies, improving connectivity through London Heathrow and introducing its
latest products.
In West Africa it will increase its daily services to
Ghana by three a week from 27 October using Boeing 767s to complement the
existing Boeing 777 flights, bringing the total number of weekly services up to
10. From Summer 2014, a larger four-cabin Boeing 747 aircraft will replace one
of the current Boeing 777s currently on the route. It will also add a
fourth weekly service to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
In East Africa it will add an additional frequency to
Uganda to offer four weekly flights. The schedule will be amended to offer
better connections to other international services though Terminal 5.
North African services have been bolstered by a fourth
weekly flight to Tripoli.
South African customers are already able to make
bookings for the A380, the airline’s largest and most modern aircraft, which
begins flying to Johannesburg on 12 February.
This is only the third A380 route to be announced
after Los Angeles and Hong Kong.
Services to Cape Town will double from the current
daily service to a double-daily operation over the busy South African summer
season. British Airways is the only airline which flies directly from Cape Town
to London year round.
It is also investing in its lounges and by the end of
the year the Cape Town and Johannesburg facilities will be upgraded to reflect
the customer experience at in the Terraces lounges in the award-winning
Terminal 5.
“We continue to consider the continent as an important
growth market and the acquisition of bmi, our fleet renewal programme and
Terminal 5 have enabled us to grow frequencies, introduce new products and
provide more convenient connections for our African customers,” says Ian
Petrie, Regional Manager Africa.
The new Uganda
schedule, effective from 30 March 2014, will see flights departing Terminal 5
on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays at 12:20 arriving in Entebbe at
22:50 the same day. The return flights on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and
Saturdays will depart Entebbe at 01:00 arriving at Terminal 5 at 07:50. This
gives customers a full day in London or plenty of time to make connections to
other flights.
The additional Ghana flights will depart Terminal 5 at
22:25 on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays arriving in Accra at 05.20. The return
service departs Accra at 08.10 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays arriving at
Heathrow at 15.15.
The additional Libya flight operates on
Mondays departing at Heathrow at 08:50 and arriving at 13:25. The return flight
departs at 15:30 arriving in London at 18:15.
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