Wednesday, May 18, 2016

British Airways announces Santiago nonstop

British Airways has disclosed via a media release that it will be launching new nonstop flights to SCL-Santiago, Chile effective  03JAN17. 

This new service will be operated 5 times per week using a Boeing 787-9 and shall in turn become the longest nonstop flight flown by the carrier i.e. 14 hours 20 minutes

Days: 2/3/5/7

Dep LHR 2200 Arr SCL 0940+1
Dep SCL 1845 Arr LHR 1205+1 

SCL is the primary hub of Lan Chile which is a fellow One World member hence BA is expected to generate a lot of feeder traffic supplied from other offline Latin American points on this new route. 

Source: http://buyingbusinesstravel.com/news/1825726-british-airways-launch-direct-london-santiago-flight

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