BA to restart non-TATL, domestic ops from Gatwick in 1Q21

British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) will transfer three of its London Heathrow long-haul services to London Gatwick at the end of March 2021, thus resuming non-transatlantic intercontinental operations from the latter airport. Flights from Gatwick to Accra, Doha Hamad Int’l, and Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam Int’l will start with the onset of the Summer 2021 schedule. The airline also plans to resume long-haul intercontinental services to Mauritius in late March 2021. British Airways will also add a new domestic service from Gatwick with the planned launch of daily flights to Manchester Int’l, operated with an A319-100. This will complement previously operated domestic flights from Gatwick to Edinburgh, Glasgow Int’l, and Jersey. According to the ch-aviation schedules module, the carrier’s current Gatwick intercontinental network covers the Caribbean and Central America only. It flies to Antigua, Basseterre, Bermuda, Bridgetown, Cancún, Grenada, Kingston Norman Manley, Montego Bay, Providenciales, Punta Cana, and St. Lucia Hewanorra. The carrier plans to restart other transatlantic routes from Gatwick (to Orlando Int’l, Tampa Int’l, Tobago, San José Juan Santamaría, and Port of Spain) through March 2021. Services to Las Vegas McCarran and New York JFK are due to restart in late March.