British Airways News In Brief: Increased Baggage Allowance To Tokyo, Summer Cancellations From London City & More

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A round-up of a few British Airways related stories that I noticed over the past couple of days including: News of a series of BA CityFlyer cancellations in and out of London City Airport this summer, an increased baggage allowance for World Traveller passengers on flights to/from Tokyo and a number of aircraft changes on long-haul routes for winter 2016/17.

British Airways Increases Baggage Allowance To Tokyo

British Airways has announced that, effective immediately, the baggage allowance for passengers booked into the World Traveller cabin (Economy Class) on flights between London Heathrow and Tokyo (both airports) will be increased from one to two checked bags.

The change is being made to bring British Airways in line with Finnair and JAL (BA’s joint venture partners) who both already offer a two bag allowance on their flights.

British Airways Gold Card holders and oneworld status holders from other airlines will continue to receive an additional piece of checked baggage on top of their ticketed allowance.

BA CityFlyer Cancels Numerous Flights From London City Airport

As the headline suggests, BA CityFlyer has cancelled a total of 32 flights out of London City Airport over the next month.

If you’re flying out of London City Airport between 9 July and 6 August 2016 you may want to scrutinise the list below to make sure that your flight hasn’t been cancelled.

Cancelled Flights To/From London City Airport (in date order)

I’ve no insight into why these cancellations are taking place but British Airways are suggesting that passengers will already have been re accommodated on to another flight…even if that may be a flight from Gatwick or Heathrow.

If you’re affected by one or more of these cancellations and haven’t heard from British Airways then you should check your reservation on BA.com asap – it may have already changed.

British Airways Long Haul Aircraft Changes – Winter 2016/17

British Airways has been moving its fleet around again and there have been quite a few changes to aircraft operating on British Airways’ long-haul network.

I’m not going to go through every single one of them (that would take way too long!) but note that there are aircraft changes on some very popular routes like:

• Los Angeles
• Tokyo Haneda
• Cape Town
• Dubai

If you’re flying with British Airways this winter (after 30 October) be sure to check your reservation to see if you’re still seated in the seats you originally chose – different aircraft have different seating arrangements so things can easily change…..and not necessarily in your favor.

Things to look out for:

• Do you still have exit row seats if that’s what you booked?
• If exit row seats weren’t available when you booked are they available now?
• Are all your seats still together? Aircraft like the 747 have a center bank of 4 seats and, if you chose all four of those and your aircraft has been changed to, say, a 777, you won’t have a bank of 4 seats to choose from now (the 777 has a 3-3-3 cabin layout).
• If you booked a bulkhead seat is that what you still have?
• If you chose your seat to be further from or closer to the lavatories is this still the case?
• If you chose your seat to be further away from the galleys (because of the noise) are you still seated sufficiently far away?

Some of these may not seem that important (although I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t be mad if they lost an exit row seat) but, if you’re going to be stuck in a pressurised metal/composite tube for hours on end, you may as well have the best seats you can get.