British Airways is indefinitely suspending all flights to two popular destinations in the Middle East from early 2025 because of continuing problems with the Rolls-Royce engines that power the airline’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet. By the end of March 2025, British Airways plans to suspend all flights to Bahrain and Kuwait – destinations that it has served for nearly 92 years and 63 years, respectively. The latest route cuts come on top of recent announcements from the beleaguered carrier that it will no longer serve Dallas Fort Worth from the summer of 2025 and will slash the number of flights it operates to Miami. The airline has already axed non-stop flights from Heathrow to Beijing and halved the number of flights it operates to Hong Kong. British Airways has blamed the closure of Russian airspace for the cuts to its Asian network due to increased operating costs. Last month, British Airways also announced that it was delaying its much-anticipated return to the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, by at least six months. British Airways was due to operate daily flights to Kuala Lumpur aboard its 787-9 Dreamliner from the start of this month, but the airline has been forced to ground […]

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