British Airways resumes Kangaroo Route from late 1Q22

British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) is heading back to Sydney Kingsford Smith via Singapore Changi from March 27, 2022, following a two-year suspension of the Kangaroo Route between Australia and the United Kingdom.

According to the ch-aviation schedules module, flights BA15/BA16 will initially operate 5x weekly between London Heathrow, Singapore, and Sydney, and vice versa, increasing to a daily service from April 1 to September 29, whereafter they revert to 6x weekly from October 30 to January 1, 2023.

At the same time, 4x weekly flights BA11/BA12 between Heathrow and Singapore are suspended on March 26, but rescheduled as a weekly service from May 8 through to January 2023, according to ch-aviation schedules data.

The restarted services will be operated with B787-9s and occasionally with B777-300(ER)s, according to the published schedule.

British Airways did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ch-aviation. Earlier, a spokesperson informed Executive Traveller that the decision to scale down the Singapore route temporarily resulted from reduced demand, ongoing uncertainty over the impact of COVID-19, and Singapore’s strict measures imposed even on vaccinated travellers.

The IAG International Airlines Group subsidiary suspended its London-Sydney flights in April 2020 in the wake of global airline route suspensions due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and national lockdowns imposed in the UK and Australia.

For its part, Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) operates its own services to Heathrow running flights from each of Sydney Kingsford Smith (daily) and Melbourne Tullamarine (4x weekly) via Darwin using its B787-9s.