Quoting runway23 (Reply 21):
There are quite a few actually the likes of LED, IST, ATH, seasonal flights to Greek islands |
The number of scheduled short-haul flights of three hours or longer operated out of
LHR by
BA Airbus aircraft is just eight:
Two daily to
ATH with a flight time of 3 hrs 35 mins (plus two flights operated by 763s)
One daily to
IST with a flight time of 3 hrs 45 mins (plus two operated by 763s)
One daily to
KBP with a flight time of 3 hrs 10 mins
One daily to
LED with a flight time of 3 hrs 15 mins
Two daily to
OTP with a flight time of 3 hrs 15 mins
One daily to
SOF with a flight time of 3 hrs 5 mins
All of the above flights except that to
LED are operated by A 320s. The daily
LED flight is flown with a 321.;
To put the above eight flights into context of
BA's total short-haul operations compare them with the 26 weekday flights
BA operates between LON and
EDI.
There are currently no scheduled flights to the Greek or Turkish holiday resorts from
LHR. The Saturday and / or Sunday flights operated by
BA from
LHR to BJV, DLM,
KLX, KOS, LXS, PVK and
RHO are all summer season charter flights. They are operated mainly for Mark Warner Holidays. However some of these destinations will have twice weekly scheduled flights from Summer 2015. These will be primarily carrying British Airways Holidays customers on
IT packages.
Many
LGW flights are currently operated by ex-BD 319s. They are already configured for 144 passengers (unlike the
BA 319s that will be reconfigured and currently have 132 seats). The remainder are operated by 734s and a single ex-BD 320. However the 734s have a limited shelf life. They will be replaced by more ex-BD 319s from
LHR and by ten newly leased 320s scheduled for delivery between next October and next March. So reconfiguration is not likely to impact flights from
LGW in any significant way.
