More BA flights for London City

Further expansion of both London City and regional operations with three new routes, increased frequencies, two more aircraft and 40 new jobs was announced last week by British Airways.

Speaking a week after announcing it is increasing flights from Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol next summer, the airline unveiled plans to double weekday services between London City and Milan Linate and add a new weekday service to Frankfurt from January.

There will also be new summer services from Manchester and Edinburgh to Florence and a weekly service between Manchester and Dublin. The extra flights are made possible with the arrival of two new 98-seat Embraer 190 aircraft in January and April, taking the fleet to 22.

This year has seen BA, which is also recruiting 20 new pilots and 20 cabin crew, launch dozens of new flights from London City, Stansted, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol airports.

General manager customer and commercial Luke Hayhoe said: “The new Embraer 190s will be a welcome addition, enabling us to expand business and leisure routes and offer much-improved schedules and timings to Milan Linate and Frankfurt.

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