Recently, British Airways has announced its decision to axe its earliest morning flight leaving from Glasgow Airport to Heathrow. The move follows the decision of the airline to merge the first two flights of the day departing to Heathrow into one service. The new flight is scheduled to leave at 07:05 instead of 06:00. The revised schedule will come into effect on 27th October when the 07:30 service will be cut. The second flight of the day will depart at 09:05.

The revised schedule has given way to concerns in the wider circles that the Scottish business and leisure travellers can arrive at Heathrow not before 08:30 and are likely to be delayed for a 09:00 meeting at the city centre. However, according to BA, the changes made in the schedule are part of its general review of services and assures that disruption for the passengers will be bare minimum.

The airline has decided to fly a larger 188-seater A321 aircraft as the first flight to London by way of making up some of the lost capacity. Over and above, BA will continue to offer four services to London City and five services to Gatwick. Notably, the earliest Gatwick flight departs at 06:15 and the earliest to London City departs at 07:00.

A BA spokesperson observed, "Even with the change to the Glasgow-Heathrow schedule, we will continue to operate more services to Heathrow from Glasgow - and Scotland as a whole - serving Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, than any other airline."