British Airways suspends flights to Oakland and Fuerteventura

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British Airways has announced a couple of additional route suspensions.

The underperforming Gatwick to Oakland route – which was only set up in the first place to annoy Norwegian – is now suspended for Summer 2019, ie from late March.

It was already suspended for the October to March Winter season so it is fair to say that this one can now be treated as permanently cancelled.

British Airways cancels Oakland service

You can either rebook on a BA San Francisco service or fly British Airways to Seattle and connect to an Alaska Airways flight to Oakland.

The Gatwick to Fuerteventura route is also cancelled from 25th November.

You can choose to be rebooked on Aer Lingus, routing Heathrow to Dublin (BA only) to Fuerteventura. Plan B is to use Brussels Airways, routing Heathrow to Brussels on BA. Note that Aer Lingus and Brussels Airways do not have a business class cabin.

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Simon says:

28 Jun28 June 12:13

I had similar IT issues as Nick’s when redeeming some Groupon codes for Iberia Plus a couple of months ago. Best to contact Groupon if the codes don’t go through as they were able to sort out, in one case by refunding the cash. Clearly I’ll be using up the IB Avios points for redemptions this week before next week’s bunfight begins…
Nick M says:

28 Jun28 June 13:49

Completely OT – potentially looking at flights SEN-MAN rather than driving with the children… how long do you think we’d need to allow at the airport? Need to allow more than “normal” for contingencies and checking in carseats, but presumably considerably less than 2 hours? (Admittedly we did get a final call at T5 last weekend!)
- Rob says:
  
  28 Jun28 June 15:46
  
  It’s is a small and not very busy airport – at least 18 months ago when I was there – so 90 minutes should do it, as long as you are sure the traffic to the airport won’t whack you.
- the real harry1 says:
  
  28 Jun28 June 16:09
  
  Depends if you have a connecting flight onwards from MAN…and which airport you mean by ‘how long to allow at the airport’…I have to assume you mean you are connecting onwards ie SEN-MAN, MAN-XXX (otherwise not sure why you would ask the question). In this case the usual caveats apply, ie on 1 PNR, you’re not risking anything much so 90 mins, on 2 PNRs considerably longer for peace of mind + travel insurance
- Nick M says:
  
  28 Jun28 June 16:59
  
  Thanks Rob.. will allow a little extra time for the drive to the airport as will be going over the Dartford crossing, but good to know I shouldn’t have to double-count the “in case of delays” time!
  
  Harry – no additional flights, just SEN-MAN… didn’t want to hang around at SEN for longer than necessary but travelling with 2 children means you can’t rush quite as much, so need to allow for a bit of slippage time!
- Lady London says:
  
  28 Jun28 June 21:22
  
  There is a train that stops at the airport, it goes from Liverpool St station I think.
Sacha says:

28 Jun28 June 16:42

Thanks for the reminder!!
Aisak says:

28 Jun28 June 17:37

About the axe on LGW-FUE it’s quite weird to make passengers use LHR for rebookings and even put them on SN BRU-FUE…. IB Express LGW-MAD and MAD-FUE could have kept passengers within IAG.

If the LGW-FUE comes with a connection from EDI GLA, NQY, JER…. Then the EI option via DUB might make more sense
- Tom says:
  
  28 Jun28 June 20:10
  
  Maybe all the MAD flights were booked up after the recent Avios promo 🙂
Omair says:

28 Jun28 June 23:59

O/T: BA exec reward bookings have been a pain recently, I tried to book a reward flight on Srilankan (oneworld), it shows availability but online booking fails, on calling them they reserved it but can’t take payment for taxes over the phone, gave me 3 days to go to the airport in person and pay at ticket desk, that’s a 3 hour time waste trip to heathrow or gatwick for me, annoying in this day and age they can’t sort technology! Even taxes were £50 more than ITA matrix…. anyone else here asked to go pay in person?
dicksbits says:

29 Jun29 June 11:04

Was FUE underperforming too? Answers on a postcard…
davem says:

29 Jun29 June 11:31

My Groupon.ie avios have posted and just transferred to my BAEC
- Clarence says:
  
  29 Jun29 June 12:51
  
  How did you transfer the miles fro aerclub to baec
  - Matthew says:
    
    29 Jun29 June 13:13
    
    Mine have posted as well. I used avios.com ‘combine my avios’ to move them from AerClub to BAEC.
  - Matthew says:
    
    29 Jun29 June 13:15
    
    I should add that AerClub avios should automatically show up in your avios.com account.
  - davem says:
    
    29 Jun29 June 13:43
    
    same as Matthew, used avios.com
Clarence says:

29 Jun29 June 13:52

That’s good news except I can’t get into my avios.com account. Don’t know what’s up
- Clarence says:
  
  29 Jun29 June 14:13
  
  Got it. All done on avios app