BRITISH Airways has cancelled all its flights from a major city airport in a shock move.
The airline reportedly contacted passengers last night to tell them their flights from Southampton Airport would no longer be going ahead next summer.
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A BA spokesperson confirmed: “We are suspending our summer 2025 operations from Southampton Airport and contacting any affected customers with options including rebooking on an alternative flight with us or another airline or a full refund.”
The reason behind the decision is not yet known.
The airline previously ran flights from the city airport to Bergerac, Faro, Malaga, Majorca and Chambery.
These were operated at weekends through BA CityFlyer – a subsidiary running domestic and European flights from Southampton as well as London City.
The Southampton flights were launched on 29 May, 2021 to 11 destinations in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Greece, France and Germany.
The news comes just four months after BA launched its two latest routes from the airport – Bergerac and Majorca.
And it comes just a year after Southampton Airport’s 164m extension to its existing runway.
It was thought that this extension would allow larger aircrafts – and therefore more flights – to take off from the airport, with local MP Paul Holmes saying it would “unlock potential”.
Southampton is not the only airport affected by BA suspensions recently.
Last month, the airline shockingly announced it would be suspending flights between London Heathrow and Beijing from October – one of its “most important routes”.
This followed a three-year pause in London-to-Beijing operations due to Covid.
When approached by the Sun for comment, a spokesperson for Southampton Airport said: “Clearly it’s disappointing when any route is removed, however, we are in constant dialogue with airlines regarding the introduction of new services and that includes backfilling the routes withdrawn by British Airways.”