British Airways has added a new route to its Aberdeen International Airport network operating to London City this winter.

Passengers will be able to fly on the new route from next month to provide stronger domestic connectivity to London.

Flights will begin operating on Tuesday, November 1, and run until Sunday, January 22, 2023 on the Embraer E190 aircraft.

The route will complement the multiply daily flights with British Airways to London Heathrow.

Matt Hazelwood, Chief Commercial Officer for AGS Airports Ltd, which owns Aberdeen International Airport, said: "This announcement is welcome news and will provide even more choice for passengers between the Granite City and London.

“We look forward to working with BA Cityflyer to establish the route.”

Mark Beveridge, Operations Director at Aberdeen International Airport, said: “It is great to see British Airways growing its offering and presence at Aberdeen International Airport with this new daily flights to London City.

“Routes like London City are important to help drive the economy connecting the business community to key markets.

“It also provides a great opportunity for people to come see the great area our corner of the country is with fantastic food and drink offerings.”

Russell Borthwick, Chief Executive of Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce, commented: “This is positive news for the people and businesses of Aberdeen, but in a highly-competitive environment they need to use or potentially risk losing this new route.

"Aberdeen more than any other region of the UK is dependent on air connectivity to enable our internationally-focused economy, tourism ambitions and ensure we do not become just a distant northern outpost.

A report by Airlines UK found that, without government support, airports across the land stand to lose around 600 routes post-pandemic - 80% of these to/from regional airports.

"We will continue to make the case to Scottish Government for a defined route-development fund to at least return Scotland to pre-pandemic levels. And, even at that time, we still hugely underperformed against peer nations.

"Such a scheme was in place until 2007 before being suspended due to state-aid concerns. An argument which holds little water when a number of EU countries, including Ireland, have intervened to protect their air connectivity. In Ireland’s case this package was worth 160million Euros. So our competitors have already stolen a march on us.”

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