British Airways celebrated the one-year anniversary of the London to New York, business class-only flights to New York. To mark this occasion, the airline took a two-man film crew from BBC’s Fast Track program, which broadcasts on BBC World and the BBC news channel, to film the service from beginning to end. A British Airways spokesman was onboard together with a British Airways gold card holder and frequent flier, who provided interviews from the customer’s perspective.
British Airways launched the first ever long-haul Club World service from London City airport in September 2009 with twice-daily business class-only flights to New York. They were given the airline’s most prestigious flight number, BA001, previously used by Concorde until its retirement in 2003.
Fitted with just 32 seats, which convert to fully flat beds, the specifically configured Airbus A318’s will fly across the Atlantic to New York’s JFK airport after a brief refueling stop at Shannon in the west of Ireland, where customers will be able to clear U.S. Customs and Immigration. They are the only aircraft in the BA fleet equipped with OnAir allowing customers to connect to the internet during flight — and the only such service across the Atlantic. Return flights from New York will be nonstop, as the aircraft can use JFK’s full-length runways and take off with sufficient fuel for the trans-Atlantic crossing. For more information, visit www.ba.com.
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