AIRLINES around the world have been forced to ground thousands of their planes due to the coronavirus pandemic.
However, a number of flights are still in operation even today.
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The current crisis has led to countries closing their borders in an attempt to reduce the spread of the virus.
This means airlines are suspending flights with millions of holidays being disrupted, with TUI and Jet2 the latest to announce they are grounding their fleet.
Some flights are still operating from UK airports today, despite the latest government advice warning against all non-essential travel indefinitely.
These include routes to Asia and the US, as well as Europe and domestic flights.
Despite this, many of these flights are not expected to be normal routes – airlines are adding flights in an attempt to rescue thousands of people still stranded abroad.
Instead, the operations are put in place to allow travellers to book the flights to return to their home country, so it would be unwise to attempt to book these as holiday flights.
Not only would you likely be turned away at the border, but you also would not get your money back.
Here is the full list of flights still operating from major UK airports as of today.
London Heathrow
Virgin Atlantic are still flying to Paris, New York, Havana and LA.
British Airways are still operating two routes to Asia – Tokyo and Seoul – as well as flights to Ireland with Dublin, Cork, Shannon and Belfast are still operational.
They are also flying to US destinations Boston, Miami, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Seattle and LA, along with European routes to Nice, Berlin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Barcelona, Madrid.
Here are all other routes:
- American Airlines – New York, Hamburg, Nairobi, Madrid, Edinburgh, Geneva, Dallas, Brussels, Miami, Oslo, Frankfurt, Chicago, Dusseldorf, Paris, Glasgow, Gothenburg
- United – New York
- Lufthansa – Frankfurt
- Japan Airlines – Tokyo
- Aer Lingus – Dublin, Belfast, Cork
- Etihad – Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Rome, Stavanger, Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Shannon
- Cathay Pacific – Hong Kong
- Qantas – Berlin, Edinburgh, Basel
- Iberia – Madrid, Edinburgh, Dubai, Glasgow, Oslo, Gothenburg, Newcastle, Belfast, Cairo, Nairobi, Toronto, Vancouver, Hamad, Aberdeen, Manchester, Mumbai, Johnaserburg, Singapore, Cape Town, Sao Paulo, Barcelona
- Air Canada – Toronto
- Qatar Airways – Hamad, Glasgow, Edinburgh
- Icelandair – Reykjavik
- Egypt Air – Cairo
- Bulgaria Air – Sofia
London Gatwick
The majority of flights from Gatwick, primarily easyJet, have been cancelled. The following are still in operation:
- British Airways – Dublin, Hamad
- Wizz Air – Budapest, Bucharest, Krakow, Gdansk
- Iberia – Jersey, Seville, Tenerife, St Johns, Bridgetown
London Stansted
- British Airways – Hamad
- Qatar – Hamad
- Air India – Amritsar
London Luton
The only remaining flights from London Luton are with Wizz Air, to destinations in Poland, Romania, Greece and Russia as well as to:
- Budapest
- Bratislava
- Oslo
- Vilnius
- Riga
- Sofia
- Prague
- Lisbon
- Larnaca
- Ben Gurion
- Reykjavik
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Manchester Airport
LoganAir are operating the majority of flights from Manchester Airport, with mainly UK destinations:
- Southampton
- Jersey
- Aberdeen
- Belfast
- Newquay
- Exeter
- Amsterdam
- Paris
- Dusseldorf
Other airlines include:
- British Airways – Dublin, Hamad
- Etihad – Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Dublin
- Garuda – Amsterdam, Abu Dhabi
- Virgin Atlantic – Bridgeton, Amsterdam
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Birmingham Airport
- LoganAir – Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh
- British Airways – Dublin
- Air India – Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Belfast
Bristol Airport
- Alitalia – Amsterdam
- Virgin Atlantic – Amsterdam
Newcastle Airport
- Eastern Airways – Aberdeen, Southampton
- KLM – Amsterdam
Leeds Airport
- Eastern Airways – Southampton
- Virgin Atlantic – Amsterdam
Almost a million British travellers have been left stranded all over the world as airlines and borders shut down.
Thousands of Brits that have been left abroad are being charged up to ten times the standard return fare for a one-way ticket home.
This led to the Foreign Secretary confirming that British Airways, easyJet, Jet2 and Virgin are working together to get Brits home, and extra flights are being chartered where commercial flights have all been cancelled.
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