{"id":320563,"date":"2025-11-21T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/unusual-british-airways-adds-new-very-short-london-heathrow-route\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:00:14","slug":"unusual-british-airways-adds-new-very-short-london-heathrow-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=320563","title":{"rendered":"Unusual? British Airways Adds New Very Short London Heathrow Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  >British Airways<\/a><\/span> will fly from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259797\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/london-heathrow-airport\/\"  >London Heathrow<\/a><\/span><strong> to Guernsey<\/strong>. It last did so 45 years ago, in 1980. The airport pair has seen various carriers over the years, including Air UK and Flybe, which operated for 12 months until March 2020. Elsewhere, BA CityFlyer also flew from London Gatwick to Guernsey until 2003. Of course, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257335\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aurigny\/\"  >Aurigny<\/a><\/span> already serves Guernsey to Gatwick and London City, although the latter route is at risk from BA&#8217;s entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA last served the route over four decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,1513,1022,406,15477,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-british-airways","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320693,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320563\/revisions\/320693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}