British Airways will drop the London (Heathrow) – Beijing, one of its most important international routes, on October 26, 2024
The route is being dropped because of unfair competition. Chinese airlines can fly over Russian airspace. Their flights are shorter and thus cheaper.
Meanwhile BA is forced to avoid Russian airspace on the route and their zig-zag routing takes two hours longer.
However BA will continue to fly to Hong Kong and Shanghai.
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