British Airways to Launch All-Business Class Flights

Feb 1st, 2008 | By Jared Blank

British Airways will launch all-business class flights from London’s City airport to New York in 2009. No additional information about the service has been released, but you’ve got to imagine that SilverJet isn’t particularly pleased (Eos’ product is really first class, and I’ll guess here that BA’s pricing will be in the range of SilverJet’s fares. At least until SilverJet runs out of cash.)

(And a bit of a revision to this post: BA will fly the flights with an A318 configured with 32 passengers, which is clearly aimed at Eos, not SilverJet. Of course, there’s zero guarantee that either will be around by next year, as discussed in this post.)

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