BA cancellations

[prepared101]

Anyone been contacted yet?

We are flying LHW to Nashville in October and I'm convinced it'll be cancelled. Flights still appear to be on sale but literally double what we paid a couple of months ago.

I have a BA flight booked for September - not heard anything!

We are flying with them in February. Thought that it was far enough away to be safe but they say flights will be affected until March. I hope we are OK!

@prepared101 isn't that a long haul flight? BBC seems to suggest it's short haul that will be affected

British Airways to cut 10,000 Heathrow flights www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62637616

It's predominantly short haul, but that BBC link says some long haul may be affected

When I heard this on the news, my first thought was that there simply aren't enough passengers for the schedule they had planned, and this is a face-saving way to roll back without saying that

No. It’s passenger limits at Heathrow. Yes, it’s mostly short haul. We are flying to USA with BA in 4 weeks. We expect to go.

Yes, we're long haul but recent reports seem to suggest long haul may also be affected.

Obviously hard to say but but as I understand it's mainly BA shorthaul being effected.

Yes there's some Long Haul cancellations but those are likely to be on those route where there's more than one service a day (e.g. LHR-JFK) so it's easy to consolidate...AFAIK Nashville direct is one a day so you'd hope it would be fairly safe..🙄

Hope that's not famous last words, hope it works out OK...

I'd be surprised if the Nashville flight is canceled as they'd then have to cancel the return journey that your plane was intended to do.
The LHR flight is Nashville's only long haul flight and is used by many for onward connections into other European cities with an American Airlines codeshare so would be particularly disruptive to cancel it.
I hope I haven't cursed it for you now!

I agree with pp, I think it's more likely to be short haul and destinations with multiple flights per day where they can consolidate passengers rather than 'one offs'. Good luck!

I'm sceptical of that as a sole reason.
They're planning a full schedule for autumn half term weeks.

That passenger limit is only applied some of the time.

I really think there just aren't the passengers to run a full schedule, or for the sums to add up for the airport to employ more staff so there is no need to have a ceiling on use.

With cost of living increases, holidays will be scaled back. With growing proper awareness of climate change, people will start to look at destinations which do not involve flights.

So managing decline, without damaging confidence in your business appears to be the name of the game. The days of flying away for cheap weekends/long weekends are numbered. There won't be new business coming along. So it's likely to be about realigning (read; reducing) capacity, whilst still covering as much of demand in peak weeks as possible

@RoseAndRose

I'm sceptical of that as a sole reason.
They're planning a full schedule for autumn half term weeks.
That passenger limit is only applied some of the time.

From what I'm hearing short term at Heathrow it really is mainly down to a lack of personnel at both an airport and to some extent individual airline level.

Longer term airlines/airports might just have concerns about ramping permanent establishment numbers up to e.g. 2019 levels if they think there's a down turn on the horizon over this coming winter, but that's just me speculating...

The cap is due to end 29 Oct and that will be half term for some but not others. I don’t have any issue with BA flying as much as possible! They have, like many airlines, had huge issues. However they are selling short haul so hopefully after Oct it will all even out.

Jersey flight booked. BA cancelled our original Booking but they fly to jersey several times a day so Im concerned they may cancel this one too.

I love Nashville and am very jealous! I reckon you’ll be fine because, as far as I’m aware, there isn’t another direct alternative. I have flights to Denver booked in Dec, it’s the only direct with BA and codeshare partner AA don’t seem to fly it either so fingers crossed we’ll also be fine. Keep an eye on your emails though, our flight times have already been changed.

I think it's more the short haul flights that are affected but I'm nervous myself as I'm flying BA for the first time in 5 years this weekend. Long haul and with no plan B on what happens if they cancel our flight.

I suppose the question is how many Jersey flights have they left on the schedule for the day in question?

As I recall it that used to be a reasonably high demand route so I would have thought they would provide a least one flight, hopefully more, everyday, despite the Cap.

Don't want to tempt fate but I suspect any cancellations this coming weekend caused by the Heathrow Cap will have been actioned and communicated to passengers some time ago...

For a Longhaul flight this coming weekend I'd hope you'd be OK especially if it's the only flight of the day to the destination in question.

Good Luck.

Thanks, there's 2/3 flights a day depending on day of the week. I only booked the flights at last weekend so should be ok. 4 hour drive to Heathrow though 😒

Due to the cap, lots of flights have already been consolidated. If the flight is imminent it’s more likely to be staff absences that cause en impact. Hopefully not though.

Unlikely on that route. So far its only been short-haul. If its longhaul they are likely to trim routes where there are several flights a day.

We've got one booked in November, it was cancelled from Gatwick and re-booked at Heathrow but the times remained the same.

Fingers crossed it goes ahead x

@RHOAD
Thsts consolidation though quite possibly. We noticed our Vancouver flight in the summer was rescheduled to one flight instead of two. Bigger aircraft though.

I've just had the last leg of my long haul return flight cancelled for the second time.
It's the one that gets us home from Heathrow.
I just don't know what to do at the moment. They offered to rebook the whole of the return flight but for 5 days later!
Trains home are in the hundreds of pounds at this stage.

When is this flight exactly? If they've cancelled with less than 14 days' notice, remember that they will also have to give you compensation.

@GrimDamnFanjo BA can sometimes change your domestic flight ticket into a train service if your domestic flight is cancelled.