British Airways on June 6 will launch a new daily flight between Newark Liberty International Airport and London Heathrow "to support the return of business travel in 2022," the carrier announced Thursday.
The Newark-London leg will at depart at 7:55 a.m. The London-Newark leg will depart at 7:10 p.m. It will be the carrier's third daily flight from Newark to London.
The flight will be serviced with a Boeing 777-200 aircraft, configured with 48 Club World seats, 40 World Traveler Plus seats and 184 World Traveler seats. It also will offer the airline's Club Suite experience for its Club World seats, with direct-aisle access, a suite door for greater privacy, flat-bed seats in a 1-2-1 configuration, 40 percent more storage, a vanity and mirror, Wi-Fi, 18.5-inch in-flight entertainment screens, high-definition gate-to-gate programming, and PC and USB power.
In addition, the airline is set to resume in March its "daylight" service from John F. Kennedy International Airport, "which proves to be a convenient option particularly valued by its business travelers," according to British Airways.
With the Newark addition, British Airways and its partner American Airlines will offer 15 daily departures this summer between the New York City metro area and London. Beginning in April, all flights to JFK and Newark from Heathrow on British Airways and American will depart out of Terminal 5, and by next year all British Airways flights from JFK will depart from American's Terminal 8. The companies recently released details about the JFK colocation.