British Airways has announced a new route from Gatwick to Accra, thrice weekly, starting on October 29, bringing the total number of weekly flights between the UK and Ghana to 10. The airline has also added Sharm El-Sheikh to its Africa network and doubled the number of flights to Cairo since 2019.
“Restoring our Africa route network has given us an opportunity to introduce new aircraft, routes, products, and partnerships, providing customers with more flexibility, choice, and an enhanced travel experience,” commented Moran Birger, British Airways’ Head of Sales for Africa, Middle East, and South Asia.
With the addition of new routes, the airline has restored its London-Africa capacity to pre-pandemic level with plans for further expansion.
The airline offers daily from Heathrow to Abuja, Accra, Nairobi, and Lagos and double-daily services to Johannesburg. It also offers an expanded double-daily service to Cape Town during summer peak season, reverting to daily in winter.
Additionally, there are three weekly services from Gatwick to Mauritius. There are also three seasonal weekly flights to Cape Town, over and above the Heathrow schedule.
The airline has a codeshare with Airlink, offering customers seamless connectivity to 18 destinations in southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. In North Africa, Royal Air Maroc has joined the Oneworld alliance, opening up routes across Morocco, including Casablanca and Agadir, as well as providing more flight flexibility between London Heathrow and Marrakesh.
Besides the expanded partnership between Qatar Airways and British Airways offers the African passengers more flexible schedules and wide network of over 185 destinations.