British Airways is set to operate a record number of flights from London to the US, Canada and Mexico in Summer 2025, offering more than 400 direct flights per week during its peak weeks, including 26 US cities.

The move by British Airways will see extra six flights per week operated to Austin, Texas, one of America’s hottest cities at present.

Austin will have a total of 13 flights per week and other cities seeing an increase include Miami, which will receive an additional seven flights per week, bringing the total to 14 flights per week and becoming a twice-daily service year-round.

The airline will also be opening a brand-new lounge in Miami in 2025, featuring its new lounge design concept.

Las Vegas will also see an extra three flights per week during peak months of the season, bringing the weekly total to 10, while Pittsburgh will increase from six to seven flights per week and Washington DC will see an increase of seven flights per week, bringing the total to 21 flights per week.

North of the border, Vancouver, Canada will have an increase of up to seven flights per week from London Heathrow, bringing the total to up to 14 flights per week during peak summer.

Coupled with the airline’s daily flight from London Gatwick, customers can choose from three flights per day from June to September.

“The US remains a priority market for us, and we know these network changes will be welcomed by both our business and leisure customers, providing more options than ever before to travel between the UK and the USA,” said British Airways’ Chief Planning and Strategy Officer, Neil Chernoff.

In the last decade, British Airways has launched six new routes to cities across the US, including Austin in 2014, New Orleans in 2016, Nashville in 2018, Pittsburgh in 2019, Portland, Oregon, in 2022, and most recently Cincinnati in 2023.

ADDITIONAL GLOBAL EXPANSION

Elsewhere on British Airways’ global route network, a third daily flight to Delhi (DEL) has been added for Summer 2025, bringing the total number of flights to India to 63 per week across five destinations.

Flights from Gatwick to Cancun (CUN) will also grow from six per week to seven, becoming a daily service next summer, and a second daily flight has been added from Heathrow to Florence (FLR).

New services to Kuala Lumpur (KUL) and Jeddah (JED), both launching in November 2024, will continue into the summer 2025 season, along with frequency growth in Riyadh (RUH).

For the Winter 2024 season, the airline’s direct route from London Gatwick to Bangkok (BKK) will return on 28 October 2024, operating three times per week to the Thai capital. The service will increase to up to five times per week between January and March 2025.

Customers flying on British Airways-operated flights to Doha (DOH) are now being offered the option to travel in the airline’s First cabin, with one of the twice-daily flights from Heathrow being operated on a Boeing 787-10 aircraft.