{"id":222148,"date":"2023-06-07T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/?p=222148"},"modified":"2023-06-07T05:56:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:56:34","slug":"ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"BA is back flying to Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SINGAPORE, 7 June 2023: British Airways&#8217; first flight from London to Beijing in more than three years touched down at Beijing Daxing Airport on Tuesday, 5 June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was British Airways\u2019 first passenger flight between the two cities since January 2020, when the route was suspended due to the pandemic. The resumption reclaims the airline\u2019s exclusivity as the only British carrier operating a direct service between Beijing and the UK.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"376\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-222149 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 565px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 565\/376;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">British Airways&#8217; first flight to Beijing in 3 years touches down at Daxing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The airline will offer four weekly flights between Beijing and London, departing Daxing Airport on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British Airways and joint business partner China Southern operate from Daxing, giving customers greater booking connectivity to cities in the UK and China. Frequent flyer benefits through the joint business include greater opportunities to collect points and lounge access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate the long-awaited moment, British Airways director of worldwide airports Louise Street welcomed the inaugural flight, greeting customers and crew as they disembarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She commented: \u201cThe restart of one of our most important routes after more than three years is a long-awaited moment for all of us at British Airways. Following the successful resumption of flights between Shanghai and London in April, we\u2019re excited to be back in Beijing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October 2019, British Airways was the first international flag carrier to move operations across to the newly opened Daxing Airport. Customers flying into Daxing can benefit from a high-speed rail link into the city and enjoy state-of-the-art facilities, including a newly re-designed lounge for those eligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE, 7 June 2023: British Airways&#8217; first flight from London to Beijing in more than three years touched down at Beijing Daxing Airport on Tuesday, 5 June. This was British Airways\u2019 first passenger flight between the two cities since January 2020, when the route was suspended due to the pandemic. The resumption reclaims the airline\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":222149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,3091],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-222148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-airlines","8":"category-china-2"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BA is back flying to Beijing - TTR Weekly<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BA is back flying to Beijing - TTR Weekly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SINGAPORE, 7 June 2023: British Airways&#8217; first flight from London to Beijing in more than three years touched down at Beijing Daxing Airport on Tuesday, 5 June. This was British Airways\u2019 first passenger flight between the two cities since January 2020, when the route was suspended due to the pandemic. The resumption reclaims the airline\u2019s [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TTR Weekly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/TTRweekly\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-06T22:15:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-06T22:56:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"565\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"376\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"TTR WEEKLY\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/ttrweekly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ttrweekly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"TTR WEEKLY\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"TTR WEEKLY\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#\/schema\/person\/0969996ed7cd03b896cfdbc063a1dd93\"},\"headline\":\"BA is back flying to Beijing\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-06T22:15:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-06T22:56:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/\"},\"wordCount\":262,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"AIRLINES\",\"CHINA\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/\",\"name\":\"BA is back flying to Beijing - TTR Weekly\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-06T22:15:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-06T22:56:34+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1.jpg\",\"width\":565,\"height\":376},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BA is back flying to Beijing\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/\",\"name\":\"TTR Weekly\",\"description\":\"News for Southeast Asia&#039;s travel planners. Latest news, travel news, B2B news, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Brunei.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#organization\",\"name\":\"ttrweekly\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/TTRW-272-01.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/TTRW-272-01.png\",\"width\":1133,\"height\":375,\"caption\":\"ttrweekly\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/TTRweekly\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/ttrweekly\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#\/schema\/person\/0969996ed7cd03b896cfdbc063a1dd93\",\"name\":\"TTR WEEKLY\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/ttrweekly\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/author\/e-newswire\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"BA is back flying to Beijing - TTR Weekly","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"BA is back flying to Beijing - TTR Weekly","og_description":"SINGAPORE, 7 June 2023: British Airways&#8217; first flight from London to Beijing in more than three years touched down at Beijing Daxing Airport on Tuesday, 5 June. This was British Airways\u2019 first passenger flight between the two cities since January 2020, when the route was suspended due to the pandemic. The resumption reclaims the airline\u2019s [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/","og_site_name":"TTR Weekly","article_publisher":"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/TTRweekly\/","article_published_time":"2023-06-06T22:15:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-06-06T22:56:34+00:00","og_image":[{"width":565,"height":376,"url":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"TTR WEEKLY","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/ttrweekly","twitter_site":"@ttrweekly","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"TTR WEEKLY","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/"},"author":{"name":"TTR WEEKLY","@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#\/schema\/person\/0969996ed7cd03b896cfdbc063a1dd93"},"headline":"BA is back flying to Beijing","datePublished":"2023-06-06T22:15:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-06-06T22:56:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/"},"wordCount":262,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1.jpg","articleSection":["AIRLINES","CHINA"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/","name":"BA is back flying to Beijing - TTR Weekly","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1.jpg","datePublished":"2023-06-06T22:15:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-06-06T22:56:34+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-1.jpg","width":565,"height":376},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/2023\/06\/ba-is-back-flying-to-beijing\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"BA is back flying to Beijing"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/","name":"TTR Weekly","description":"News for Southeast Asia&#039;s travel planners. Latest news, travel news, B2B news, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Brunei.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#organization","name":"ttrweekly","url":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/TTRW-272-01.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/TTRW-272-01.png","width":1133,"height":375,"caption":"ttrweekly"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/TTRweekly\/","https:\/\/x.com\/ttrweekly"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/#\/schema\/person\/0969996ed7cd03b896cfdbc063a1dd93","name":"TTR WEEKLY","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/ttrweekly"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/author\/e-newswire\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222150,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222148\/revisions\/222150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}