Article from BTNews 17 OCTOBER 2016
LCY boost for Germany
More than 34,000 extra seats to Germany are being provided by British Airways from London City Airport this winter, with bigger aircraft and additional flights.
Services to Hamburg and Dusseldorf will operate with the 76-seat Embraer 170 jet, replacing the current Saab 2000 turboprop. In addition, the schedule to Dusseldorf will increase from three to four flights a day,
The airline says the larger aircraft mean BA is more than doubling its capacity to Hamburg on the three daily flights. Larger aircraft and additional frequencies will increase the number of seats to Dusseldorf by 33%.
New three-a-day flights to Berlin from London City launched earlier this year, which together with Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Bremen means BA will operate up to 85 flights each week direct from London’s Docklands to Germany this winter.
BA’s manager commercial and customer for London City, Luke Hayhoe, said: “Germany is such a fast-growing market we were delighted to increase our schedule earlier this year with new services to Berlin and Hamburg. Now, with a larger aircraft fleet, we can be more flexible and add the additional frequencies that customers have asked for."
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