BA unveils network changes
British Airways is launching flights to Haneda in Japan in a bid to open up the domestic Japanese market to UK travellers.
The five-a-week service from Heathrow to Haneda will begin on February 19.
It will be served by a Boeing 777 with prices starting from £721.
BA said the airport offers excellent links to Japan’s domestic network and is also located near the business centre in Tokyo.
The airline’s daily service to Tokyo’s Narita airport will continue.
BA also announced today other changes to its network from March 27.
It is adding new direct flights to Buenos Aires, rather than via Sao Paulo, and is increasing services to the Caribbean from Gatwick.
Barbados will increase from 10 to 12 flights a week, Antigua will increase from five to six services a week and the St Lucia – Port of Spain service will increase from five a week to daily.
Cancun, launched in November 2010, is increasing from two to three services for summer 2011.
Gatwick to Tampa is increasing from five to seven flights a week, but Orlando is decreasing from nine to seven flights a week.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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