British Airways has quietly wiped its entire summer 2027 schedule from London Stansted, pulling all five seasonal routes operated by its regional subsidiary BA CityFlyer. The affected destinations are Bergerac, Florence, Nice, Olbia and Palma de Mallorca — a mix of French, Italian and Spanish sun spots that the airline had been flying from the airport northeast of central London.
No official reason has been given, but competition tells most of the story. Ryanair is scheduled to run five weekly flights to Bergerac, daily Nice services, twice-weekly Olbia flights and three daily rotations to Palma next summer, while Jet2 and TUI pile onto Palma as well. Florence is the odd one out: nobody else will fly there from Stansted, yet BA is keeping it only as a winter route for 2026/27 rather than a summer one.
The withdrawal may signal the end of BA CityFlyer's Stansted operation altogether. The subsidiary has been at the airport since 2016, serving roughly 15 or 16 destinations over the years — Amsterdam, Málaga, Faro, Mykonos and Ibiza among them — but its summer presence is now zero and only winter flights to Chambéry, Florence and Geneva remain on the schedule.
The airline's attention is clearly elsewhere. Stansted was always a small satellite compared with London City, where BA CityFlyer serves more than 20 destinations with its Embraer E190 fleet — aircraft chosen because the docklands airport demands a steep 5.5-degree approach on a short 1,508-metre runway and enforces a weekend curfew. The carrier also still serves Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and a small operation at Gatwick.
There's good news for some UK travellers: three route additions for summer 2027. London City gains a seasonal Perugia service from May 1 (initially weekly Saturdays, rising to four weekly from May 21), which replaces the old Heathrow–Perugia flight. Edinburgh gets a weekly Saturday link to Split in Croatia, running May 15 to June 19 and again September 4 to October 2. And Glasgow picks up a new Nice connection from May 15, with outbound flights on Saturdays and returns on Sundays.
Why it matters: if you'd booked or planned a BA summer hop from Stansted, those flights no longer exist in the system — you'll need to rebook via another carrier or another London airport. Meanwhile, travellers in Edinburgh and Glasgow get easier access to Croatia and the Riviera without connecting through London, and the Perugia route opens up Umbria from the compact, well-connected London City. For leisure flyers who like BA's short-haul product, the picture for 2027 is smaller at Stansted but slightly wider in Scotland.
