{"id":403116,"date":"2026-04-10T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/british-airways-just-doubled-flights-on-this-major-long-haul-route\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:00:17","slug":"surprising-british-airways-just-doubled-flights-on-this-major-long-haul-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=403116","title":{"rendered":"Surprising? British Airways Just Doubled Flights On This Major Long-Haul Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <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&#8217;<\/a><\/span> latest expansion plan, the <strong>one<\/strong>world member revealed that it&#8217;ll offer a double daily service to Bengaluru for the first time. It&#8217;ll benefit from the continued problems of connecting at Gulf hubs, whether flying from London or North America or elsewhere. It comes as Virgin Atlantic increases its own service to Bengaluru, with up to 13 weekly departures this year. BA must be competitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier&#8217;s bold move to double flights to this destination makes it more competitive, but why has it become a key focus?<\/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":[396,475,1513,553,406,15477,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-british-airways","category-india","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\/403116","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=403116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403117,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403116\/revisions\/403117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}