British Airways recommences its daily Gatwick – Malta flights

British Airways, today recommences its scheduled flights from Malta to London Gatwick. British Airways will transport up to 145 passengers daily on its Boeing 737 and Airbus 319/320 aircraft.

Peter Simpson, British Airways’ director Gatwick, said, “We are delighted to re-launch services to Malta, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Mediterranean, in advance of the peak summer holiday season. We believe the convenient timings, together with our range of highly competitive fares, generous hand baggage allowances and great on board service will make the route attractive to tourists, business travellers, as well as those visiting relatives and friends.”

This service will offer excellent connectivity between Malta and London especially for business travellers, and will thus support the growth of the conference sector from UK and beyond.

BA said that the “timings of the flights will be convenient, with morning or late afternoon departure times from London Gatwick, depending on the day of travel. Additionally, British Airways is offering free seat selection as well as airport, online or mobile check-in.”

“For customers travelling lightly, a hand-baggage only ticket in economy class will start from €54 one-way, including all taxes and charges. For customers with luggage, British Airways also offers a generous allowance of 23kg, along with one piece of hand baggage and one handbag or laptop for economy ticket holders. Customers travelling in Club Europe, the airlines business cabin can take two checked bags of 23kg each,” the airline said.

To book flights on British Airways’ route between London Gatwick and Malta, visit www.ba.com.

This post was originally published in www.gozonews.com

BA Boosts East African Operations

With East African economies set for increased growth in 2014, British Airways is adding more flights and growing capacity to the region.

In Uganda it will increase services between Heathrow’s Terminal 5 and Entebbe International Airport from three to four a week from 31 March 2014.

 It is also maintaining its night time departures to improve connections at Terminal 5 to other international destinations including North America, where there is a choice of British Airways or American Airlines flights nearly every hour. At the same time, it will replace the Boeing 777s on the daily service between London and Nairobi with the larger Boeing 747-400s. This will add over 780 seats a week on the route. Edward Frost, the airline’s newly appointed commercial manager for East and Southern Africa, says the move is a response to continued robust economic growth in the region.

According to the United Nations’ world economic situation and prospects 2014 report, East African growth was 6 percent in 2013 and is expected to increase to 6.4 percent this year. “We adjust schedules and capacity to reflect demand and this is another example of just that. The new schedule and capacity increases provide customers with more choice and better connections,” says Frost.

The airline is backing the capacity and schedule increases with a series of special offers, with some fares discounted by as much as 42 percent and a choice of destinations in the UK, Europe and North America. World Traveller fares from Entebbe to London start from US$299, while seats from Nairobi to New York through Terminal 5 are priced from US$699, the offer selling period will start on 17th to 24th March 2014. Full details of the offers can be sourced from ba.com or travel agents.

Elsewhere in Africa British Airways is increasing capacity to Ghana, deploying a larger four-cabin Boeing 747-400 aircraft to replace one of the Boeing 777s operating its 10 weekly services to Accra. In early March it increased capacity to South Africa when it introduced six A380 services as part of its double-daily service to Johannesburg. In May, it will grow its winter schedule to Cape Town from daily to 10 a week.