Last of Western Airlines: British Airways stops flights to Beijing, avoiding

British Airways has announced today to stop flights to Beijing for at least next year. The British Airways airline said it will suspend flights between the Chinese capital and the Hitrou Airport from October 26 this year to November 2025. The IAG carrier said he would continue daily flights to Shanghai and Hong Kong. BA is one of many Western airlines that avoid Russian airspace, which increases flight time, fuel costs and complicates the order of use of crew and aircraft.

About it writes Daily Mail. The airline resumed flights to Beijing only in June 2023 after a three -year pause due to the coronavirus pause. At that time, the company described the route "London-Bepein" as "one of our most important routes. " The airline did not indicate the reason for the suspension.

Site of HEAD for Points Business Trips, which was the first to report British Airways's decision, "Why worry if you can instead send the same plane in the US where the demand for premium salons remains overwhelming? did not recover massively after the pandemic. " Virgin Atlantic also recently announced the termination of flights to Shanghai in October. European and British carriers cannot fly over the Russian airspace, which means that the flight to Asia takes several hours more than before.

It also makes it more expensive and less attractive to customers. After removing the restrictions associated with the Covid-19, the volumes of air transportation from China to Europe are restored very slowly, and many flights on this route are now dominated by Chinese carriers.

Groups such as Lufthansa stated that competition by Chinese carriers, which was allowed to fly in Russia's airspace, has reduced their income because Lufthansa's profitability has fallen on the routes on which it competes with the carriers. IAG has stated that this would not greatly affect its activities, since most of its main business is concentrated in North and South America, where the volume of bookings and demand remain high.