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British Airways drops Dallas flights, cuts Miami

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British Airways is pulling out of Dallas-Fort Worth, at least for the Summer 2025 flying season between April and October.

At present, American Airlines flies there four times per day from Heathrow whilst there is one British Airways service on an A380.

The original plan was to downgrade this to an A350. Instead, BA has dropped the flight and American Airlines is launching its own service in the exact same time slots.

British Airways drops one daily Miami flight

Anyone ticketed on the BA service from the end of March has been moved to the American Airlines flight.

BA is also dropping one daily Miami flight for Summer 2025. One of the two daily services has also been transferred to American Airlines.

British Airways has indicated that the continuing reliability issues with its Boeing 787 fleet are behind the cuts, although we believe that the airline is also building up a buffer to cope when the A380 fleet goes in for its interior refurbishment.

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Comments (68)

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  • dundj says:
    8 Nov8 November 03:40

    Byline for Hyatt section of the article states “.. should stake”. I think it is meant to be stack.

  • e14 says:
    8 Nov8 November 04:02

    You could add that BA is culling the Kuwait and Bahrain routes as well, with the Bahrain hub being closed

  • Chris says:
    8 Nov8 November 04:08

    Earning Marriott points on Nectar would make it useful and tempting again… let’s hope they either already have seen, or shortly do see sense and get that going.

    • RussellH says:
      8 Nov8 November 10:16

      Agreed. Being able to convert Nectar to Marriott would get me into Sainsbury’s more often.

  • Charlie says:
    8 Nov8 November 06:11

    I rue the day I transferred Avios to Nectar. It’s very difficult trying to spend £500 in Sainsburys due to a) the points being stolen – twice – b) the annoying northern lass on the tannoy advertising something constantly or c) even worse, Jamie Oliver or the Heston nob. I’m down to £150 now after several years, and when they are gone I will (probably) never set foot in Sainsburys again. 🙂

    • TGLoyalty says:
      8 Nov8 November 06:32

      How much do you spend on a usual shop?

      Wish I could make £350 last a year, gone in 60 seconds in comparison.

      • RussellH says:
        8 Nov8 November 10:18

        £350: roughly 10 weeks at Morrisons.
        Would have been more like 13 weeks a few years ago.

      • Charlie says:
        8 Nov8 November 21:16

        After the points were stolen the second time, I have been unable to set up an online account, and quite frankly, I don’t want to. Not quite sure how the points were stolen twice, but at the moment they are all there. So it’s just the local Sainsbury’s, which is about 20 miles away. Up in Northumberland we are blessed with superb butchers and greengrocers, cheese shops and fishmongers. There’s a good Waitrose down the road for weird things the missus wants, plus LIDL are great for cheese and wine too and a few other things, like orange juice. It’s the annoying constant tannoy advertising in the ridiculous northern accent., followed by either Heston or Jamie. You’d at least think they would have at least pitched a Geordie accent for north-east stores instead of a Manchester accent! And I was born in Manchester!

    • TooPoorToBeHere says:
      8 Nov8 November 07:03

      Our Sainsburys doesn’t have advertising announcements and £500 is gone pretty quick, although with careful attention to Nectar offers, vouchers, and stocking up when stuff is discounted the price isn’t actually that much worse than Lidl.

      Argos is another decent route for disposal – their range of white goods is good and they have plenty of child birthday/xmas stuff like Lego.

      • CJD says:
        8 Nov8 November 08:32

        With Aldi price matching, a lot of store cupboard basics (some fresh fruit and veg, dried pasta, rice, tinned tomatoes etc) are the same price at Sainsbury’s.

      • RussellH says:
        8 Nov8 November 10:20

        Agree on Argos.
        We just about emptied our Nectar account on a printer (which has worked much better than its predecessor) and a new DECT phone system.

    • Carl says:
      8 Nov8 November 09:02

      I spend all my Nectar points on Nectar hotels (£1100 this year).

  • aseftel says:
    8 Nov8 November 06:31

    I understand that the 20% sale is in also available through Hyatt Privé and with up to 15% in Asia.

    • @thirdpassport says:
      8 Nov8 November 10:02

      Correct! Must book by December 06, 2024 for stays between November 06, 2024 – April 20, 2025 and includes the usual perks when booking through an affiliated travel advisor (happy to help!): Daily breakfast for 2; hotel credit; room upgrade, early check-in, and late check-out (subject to availability).

      For some properties, there is also a Hyatt Privé Member Offer that can work out cheaper than the promotional rate, so it’s worth checking.

  • ukpolak says:
    8 Nov8 November 07:05

    We were impacted on a planned MIA-LHR booking in August but it was easy enough via MMB to switch flights and in our case we chose to extend by a day. That was on two reward bookings for a family of four.

    Surprised they are dropping one daily flight to MIA as I’d have thought it was reasonably busy. Perhaps not in the DC or NYC bracket but still.

    • Nick says:
      8 Nov8 November 07:19

      They’re not dropping a flight, they’re switching aircraft. Revenue is shared between AA and BA, it makes close to zero difference to them who owns the plane.

      MIA has been switched between them a few times in recent years. DFW is new, but AA have a few spare aircraft this year while BA have minus availability.

      • Nico says:
        8 Nov8 November 08:15

        I am impacted in May next year, they rebooked me with option to cancel, but nowhere in the email AA is mentioned, not a massive issue but not great.

      • Russell G says:
        9 Nov9 November 09:38

        Big deal if you wanna use a 241

  • Frankie says:
    8 Nov8 November 07:12

    How come Dallas is so popular from Heathrow with 5 flights a day; all taking off by 2pm?

    • SamG says:
      8 Nov8 November 07:29

      Huge AA hub

    • R says:
      8 Nov8 November 07:29

      AA are based out of DFW, so I’d assume lots of connecting traffic.
      There are 5 terminals and AA depart from all of them.

    • andyd says:
      8 Nov8 November 07:30

      It’s an enormous AA connections opportunity.

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:
      8 Nov8 November 09:21

      Hub.

      In the summer I flew to SFO via DFW on AA. Took longer but far more comfortable than the BA A380 service with better food etc.

      IIRC was one of at least half a dozen people doing the same routing.

      Also LHR T3 lounges! Oh and extra TPs too!

  • Qrfan says:
    8 Nov8 November 07:19

    OT: the Chase dream lies in tatters: “We are not looking at a kind of Sapphire-like rewards orientated card, which I know many of our commentators perhaps would expect”. Chase UK CEO. I guess that’s that then…

    • LittleNick says:
      8 Nov8 November 07:46

      That’s disappointing

      • Rob says:
        8 Nov8 November 07:58

        Did tell you! Virtually impossible it could have been done without one of the partners they’d need to sign up telling us.

        • LittleNick says:
          8 Nov8 November 09:06

          Yes very true, I guess sometimes I’m too optimistic. Do you ever see them doing a hotel scheme credit card? Don’t they do IHG or Hyatt in the US?

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