BA resumes London-Tehran service
British Airways will resume direct London-Tehran flights today, four years after the service was suspended.
The six-day-a-week service from Heathrow will start tonight, just after 9pm and will be the first direct flight by a UK carrier to Iran since October 2012, a year after the British embassy was closed in Tehran.
The embassy re-opened last year and some sanctions against Iran were lifted in January.
Meanwhile, BA is to cancel one of its two daily London City Airport-New York all-business-class services from the end of October.
BA will continue to operate the 9.45am service out of London City, but the 4pm service will no longer operate.
A spokesman said: "We will be flying up to 12 times a day from London to New York rather than the originally planned 13 times a day in the coming months."
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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