End of Longhaul for BA at Manchester.

British Airways will suspend its daily flights from Manchester to New York JFK in October to use the slot at JFK for another Gatwick flight. It will move the Boeing 767 aircraft which operated it to Heathrow, and switch a 777 to Gatwick to fly daily services from there to JFK on 27 October. The four-class 777 will offer First, Club World, World Traveller Plus and World Traveller.

This will boost the carrier's capacity from the capital to JFK to 62 flights a week, with 55 already going from Heathrow. Loads on the flight from Manchester were reported to have been poor.

American Airlines has a daily service to Chicago from Manchester, on which BA codeshares, although despite some reports to the contrary this is not a BA flight.

Also in October, BA will start daily short-haul routes from Gatwick to Oporto - Portugal's second largest city - and Valencia, Spain. Second daily services to Alicante and Turin will be added from the end of that month.