British Airways will function 52 long-haul routes alongside its short-haul community subsequent month because the airline continues to adapt to altering restrictions across the globe because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Providers will proceed to function to US gateways together with New York JFK, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami and San Francisco, with Newark added to the schedule in late November.
Flights to the Caribbean proceed to locations together with Barbados, Antigua and St Lucia, and flights will function to locations throughout Africa, the Center East and Asia corresponding to Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Flights to Santiago, and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, are additionally set to return.
British Airways can even proceed to serve home locations together with Manchester, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Newquay.
In continental Europe, cities like Paris, Munich, Geneva and Amsterdam, amongst others, shall be related to Heathrow by frequent, direct flights.
There are additionally common flights to seaside locations corresponding to Lanzarote, Tenerife and Gran Canaria.
Sean Doyle, chief govt of British Airways, stated: “We proceed to attach Britain with a considerable variety of locations throughout the globe and clients inform us they’re reassured by the protection measures we’ve put in place, together with private safety packs, screens, sanitiser stations, tailored meal providers and clients and colleagues in masks.
“The danger of contracting Covid-19 throughout a flight is extremely low.
“IATA, the worldwide aviation business physique, means that because the begin of 2020 there have been as few as 44 circumstances of Covid-19 linked to flights.
“Over the identical interval some 1.2 billion passengers have travelled.
“This determine quantities to one case for each 27 million travellers.”
Doyle earlier this month called on the federal government to scrap quarantine and change the system with mass pre-flight testing.
