British Airways pares its business-only London-New York service

British Airways will cut 1 of its 2 daily flights from London City to New York JFK, slashing capacity on a business-class-only service that began in 2009. The change will be introduced with the winter schedule at the end of October, leaving British Airways with up to 12 daily flights to terminals in the New York area from London’s Heathrow, Gatwick and City airports, according to IAG Thursday. While BA highlighted the City route in a video of the steep landing at the airport in London’s Docklands district only last month, the premium service is particularly exposed to ebbing demand for corporate travel prompted by Britain’s June 23 vote to quit the EU. Because of City’s short runway outbound BA flights are restricted to A318 jets, the smallest members of Airbus' narrow-body family/ <br/>