British Airways will end BA Cityflyer flying from London Stansted after 11 April 2027, drawing a line under a weekend operation that has linked the airport to holiday destinations for years. The move removes five routes from the summer 2027 timetable: Bergerac, Nice, Florence, Olbia and Palma de Mallorca.
That date matters because the airline has now fixed the point at which the Stansted flying stops, and travelers on those routes can see exactly when the service will disappear. British Airways also said it will continue the current winter weekend flights to Florence, Chambéry and Geneva until the end of the 2026/27 ski season, before the Stansted operation is wound down.
The service had been built around a simple constraint. BA Cityflyer flies Embraer 190s from London City Airport, but London City closes at 12:30 on Saturdays and does not reopen until Sunday lunchtime. That left aircraft idle at weekends, so Stansted became a way to keep them in the air. The plan dates back to May 2016, paused during the pandemic in 2020 and returned in May 2024 with weekend flights to Florence, Ibiza and Nice.
Since then, British Airways has kept adjusting the operation. Olbia was added for summer 2026, and the airline also announced new BA Cityflyer routes from Glasgow to Nice and Edinburgh to Split for summer 2027, a sign that weekend flying is being pushed elsewhere in the network. Edinburgh already has seasonal Cityflyer services to Florence, Majorca and San Sebastian, while Glasgow gained San Sebastian in summer 2026.
But one piece is still missing. British Airways said it will invest this capacity elsewhere across its network, yet it has not said where the Stansted aircraft will go. That leaves the clear end date in place and the next step unwritten, even as the airline closes out a weekend base that once kept its small jets busy when London City could not.
For passengers, the change is straightforward: the Stansted chapter ends after the 2026/27 ski season, and the routes that built it will go with it. For British Airways, the harder question now is not why the service is ending, but where the freed flying will be moved next.
