It seems British Airways is going to stretch its Airbus A380 fleet further, with a timetable change filed indicating that the next destination on the list… is Boston.
British Airways Airbus A380 being towed to Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport – Image, Economy Class and Beyond.
According to airlineroute, British Airways will deploy their A380 to Boston in February and March 2017, with four flights a week being offered.
The A380 will operating the BA212/213 pair, based on the following timetable:
BA213 DEPART LHR 11:20 ARRIVE BOS 14:00 BA212 DEPART BOS 17:55 ARRIVE LHR 05:10+1 Commences: 2nd February 2017 Operates to 25th March 2017 Airbus A380 operates Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays Boeing 747-400 operates Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays Extract: Airlineroute
The London Heathrow to Boston route is operated three times a day by British Airways, using a mixture of their long haul equipment – from Boeing 787s, Boeing 777s and Boeing 747s.
British Airways faces competition with Virgin Atlantic and Norwegian Air Shuttle on the London to Boston pair.
It seems the A380 is there to break up the Boeing party – but also to see if there is demand for this premium product on one of the shortest transatlantic routes (the only shorter route is Dublin/Shannon to Boston).
Time will tell if British Airways chooses to keep the A380 at Boston… or to redeploy it on longer haul routes.
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The A380 belongs in hub (ideally a Oneworld hub). This plane will be tough to fill.
I disagree. The load factors on BA’s BOS-LHR route have been very good for a long time, and BA manages to do extremely well, even with 4 planes per day.
Assuming BOS finishes the end gate updates by year-end.