[TheLion]

In my view BA should really stop wasting time and launch not one, not two, not three, but four new unserved routes to the US!

Nashville, Columbus, New Orleans & St Louis.

All would push into large areas that are currently unserved. All would work at around 4 weekly to start.

My rationale?

Nashville is a real up and coming city along the lines of Austin, with business, music industry and tourism.

Columbus has business ties, large corporations all within an hour or two’s drive, but more importantly Ohio itself is also hugely underserved TATL, with only Paris on a 757 as a year-round TATL flight. Most importantly it’s slap bang in the middle of a reason of large 2m-plus unserved metros, with Louisville, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Cincinnati all within 150 miles or so, plus Pittsburgh not far away.

New Orleans is on the rise as a centre for conferences, commerce, cruises and major tourism, plus oil, aviation and other globally-integrated businesses within its catchment area.

St Louis is one of the largest TATL unserved metros in the continent, ties up the midwest, drawing traffic from Kansas City too.

Your thoughts?

[SimonS1]

Does BA have the equipment to start 4 new routes?

[FDOS_UK]

[quote quote=767462]Does BA have the equipment to start 4 new routes?

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BA has just got back an extra airframe from deep refurbishment.

This will ease the burden.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/ATP_018936_G.jpg

[TheLion]

[quote quote=767462]Does BA have the equipment to start 4 new routes?

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Decidedly not atm. I meant to add a line to that effect, specifically that they hardly have any aircraft suitable for opening new routes, namely smaller log range aircraft like B788s, A332s or even later model B763s.

To me this smacks of a combination of poor fleet management, aircraft procurement & route planning, at an airline that is (except in Europe) shrinking its network to serve only major markets globally, Caribbean leisure routes, plus some secondary cities in the USA.

[TheLion]

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That pic is brilliant. So on point you shattered the needle! Love it <3

[Tom Otley]

… lots of rumours about this but no announcement yet.

I think New Orleans, but also some other US routes for next summer.

Shortlist might include

New Orleans (MSY)
St Louis (STL)
Nashville (BNA)
Portland (PDX)
Indianapolis (IND)

[onajetplane]

Still think Kansas (MCI) would be a great bet!

[Mark Caswell]

British Airways has now confirmed its forthcoming route from Heathrow to New Orleans:

British Airways to launch Heathrow-New Orleans route

[PhilipHart]

@onajetplane, Rob (Head for Points)flagged this up a few days ago.

[Mark Caswell]

Indeed PhilipHart – the news has been rumoured for a while (including in the article you mention), but we were embargoed from officially reporting it until now.

[PhilipHart]

@Mark Caswell Aha. Understood.

[Carajillo2Sugar]

New British Airways route to New Orleans

British Airways will fly to New Orleans (MSY) from 27th March 2017.

The Louisiana city, known as ‘The Big Easy’, will be served four times per week from London LHR Terminal 5. This will be the 1st direct service to operate from Europe to the city famous for Mardi Gras and jazz music.

· BA will operate LHR-MSY from 27MAR17
· 4 x weekly on Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat
· Route operated by 787-8 Dreamliner with a 3-cabin configuration

[icenspice]

No lounge at MSY for one world FFs. At least that was the case a year ago.

In any case, I enjoyed my huge Cajun chicken lunch before security in a very relaxed terminal with live music included.

[Bath_VIP]

At last!

[TCSH11]

Going to be a great trip

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