Kinglobjaw's Blog » PUJ http://kinglobjaw.com/blog Proudly flying US Airways! Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:12:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 British Airways starts new service to the Maldives http://kinglobjaw.com/blog/2009/05/29/british-airways-starts-new-service-to-the-maldives/ http://kinglobjaw.com/blog/2009/05/29/british-airways-starts-new-service-to-the-maldives/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 00:14:11 +0000 Mark http://kinglobjaw.com/blog/?p=641 Beginning October 25, 2009, British Airways will start flying Male, Maldives nonstop on a 777  from London’s Gatwick airport. The flight operates 3x weekly and is a 3-cabin plane (Business/Premium Economy/ Economy). The outbound from London departs on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays arriving the next morning, while the return departs Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The return is a daylight service. It appears that the service will be year round.

Along with Maldives, Britsh Airways will launch Sharm El Sheikh and Punta Cana. It’s a shame they aren’t running the flights from Heathrow, but British Airways’ holiday flights now tend to operate from Gatwick.

I was wondering which full service European airline will take the “plunge” (pun intended) and fly to the Maldives first. I remember reading about LOT planning flights from Warsaw and Virgin Atlantic wanting to start flights from London- Heathrow. Guess they were too slow as Sri Lankan airlines launched the flights first. Personally, I was betting on Lufthansa from Frankfurt or Swiss from Zurich.

Normally, I don’t blog about other airline’s routes aside from Star Alliance, but the Maldives are a destination that’s close to my heart and to which I plant to return to. Plus, I could redeem some of my AA miles on the new flight and try out Club World cabin on British Airways.

Have a nice clicK life,

-Mark

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