British Airways axes flights from UK airport in shock move for thousands of passengers

British Airways has suspended its summertime 2025 flights from Southampton Airport (Image: Getty)

British Airways (BA) has axed each flights from a major UK airport successful what volition beryllium a large stroke to thousands of passengers.

The hose has confirmed it has suspended its summertime 2025 flights from Southampton Airport. Passengers were reportedly told of the astonishment revelation past night.

A BA spokesperson confirmed: "We are suspending our summertime 2025 operations from Southampton Airport and contacting immoderate affected customers with options including rebooking connected an alternate formation with america oregon different hose oregon a afloat refund."

The crushed down the determination is not yet known.

There are present nary flights from Southampton disposable for summertime 2025 connected the BA website.

Passengers were reportedly told the astonishment revelation past nighttime (Image: Getty)

The announcement comes lone 4 months aft BA revealed 2 caller routes from the city – Bergerac and Majorca.

And it comes conscionable a twelvemonth aft Southampton Airport's 164m hold to its existing runway.

The runway hold was aimed to amended the airport’s connectivity and unlock opportunities for concern and leisure question to thrive successful the area, portion guaranteeing the airport’s viability for the future.

Currently, the nationalist emblem carrier, nether its subsidiary BA City Flyer, flies from Southampton to Bergerac, Faro, Malaga, and Majorca successful the summertime astatine weekends, and to Chambery and Bergerac successful the winter.

British Airways flights betwixt London Heathrow and Beijing are besides to beryllium suspended (Image: Getty)

Southampton is not the lone airdrome affected by BA suspensions recently.

Last month, the hose announced it would beryllium suspending flights betwixt London Heathrow and Beijing from October 2024 until astatine slightest November 2025.

The hose volition proceed to service Shanghai and Hong Kong, but the ongoing restrictions connected European carriers entering Russian airspace person analyzable routes to China, present taking respective hours longer.

The Beijing way had lone restarted successful June 2023 aft a three-year interruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, antecedently hailed by the hose arsenic "one of our astir important routes".