Just because British Airways is dealing with its own set of problems right now does not mean that it cannot announce new routes. In fact, British Airways will be boosting its Mexico services with the launch of two direct flights a week from London Gatwick to Cancun starting November 2010. This route is going to be handled by a Boeing 777 with three cabin classes.

The head of UK and Ireland sales and marketing, Richard Tams, said that they are delighted to be the only UK scheduled airline to be offering direct flights to Cancun. It is the perfect addition to the company’s Gatwick long-haul premium leisure network.

Tickets have already gone on sale this week, and the first flight will leave Gatwick on November 3^rd, at 12:45pm UK time and arrive in Cancun around 5:45pm local time. Despite this good news, not everything is great for British Airways.

Recently the UK coalition government chose to scrap plans for a third runway at Heathrow. This could prompt British Airways to focus its business in Madrid after its merger with Iberia, meaning that people in the UK could be seeing less British Airways services.

The chief executive of British Airways, Willie Walsh, just recently said that they got a fantastic airport in Madrid that has excess capacity right now. Thus, maybe the airline will just go there. Growth is not going to go away. Growth will just leave the UK and go to other parts of Europe. British Airways will be able to access the growth, because their assets are mobile and they can focus on developing in Madrid rather than London.

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