British Airways will operate a record number of flights from London to the US, Canada and Mexico in Summer 2025, offering more than 400 direct flights per week during its peak weeks, including 26 US cities.

When arriving in the US, customers can connect onto more than 100 US destinations with British Airways’ partner airlines.

The UK flag carrier operates more flights across the pond than any other European carrier, and is the only European airline to offer a luxury First class cabin across the Atlantic from London. Its increased summer schedule includes the following additions from London Heathrow, which are available to book now on ba.com:
 

• Miami, Florida (MIA): An additional seven flights per week, bringing the total to 14 flights per week and becoming a twice-daily service year-round. The airline will also be opening a brand-new lounge in Miami in 2025, featuring its new lounge design concept
• Austin, Texas (AUS): An extra six flights per week, bringing the total to 13 services per week
• Las Vegas, Nevada (LAS): An extra three flights per week during peak months of the season, bringing the weekly total to 10
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PIT): The popular route will increase from six to seven flights per week, becoming a daily service for the first time since the route was introduced
• Washington DC (IAD): An increase of seven flights per week, bringing the total to 21 flights per week
• Vancouver, Canada (YVR): An increase of up to seven flights per week from London Heathrow, bringing the total to up to 14 flights per week during peak summer. Coupled with the airline’s daily flight from London Gatwick, customers can choose from three flights per day from June to September

Customers are already searching for these destinations for 2025, with hot-ticket events including Rod Stewart’s The Encore Shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from March to June, and the Miami Grand Prix in May.

In the last decade, British Airways has launched six new routes to cities across the US, including Austin in 2014, New Orleans in 2016, Nashville in 2018, Pittsburgh in 2019, Portland, Oregon, in 2022, and most recently Cincinnati in 2023. 

Additional global route network updates

Elsewhere on British Airways’ global route network, a third daily flight to Delhi (DEL) has been added for Summer 2025, bringing the total number of flights to India to 63 per week across five destinations. Flights from Gatwick to Cancun (CUN) will also grow from six per week to seven, becoming a daily service next summer, and a second daily flight has been added from Heathrow to Florence (FLR).

New services to Kuala Lumpur (KUL) and Jeddah (JED), both launching in November 2024, will continue into the summer 2025 season, along with frequency growth in Riyadh (RUH).

For the Winter 2024 season, the airline’s direct route from London Gatwick to Bangkok (BKK) will return on 28 October 2024, operating three times per week to the Thai capital. The service will increase to up to five times per week between January and March 2025.

Customers flying on British Airways-operated flights to Doha (DOH) are now being offered the option to travel in the airline’s First cabin, with one of the twice-daily flights from Heathrow being operated on a Boeing 787-10 aircraft.