From 2025, British Airways, the airline of the United Kingdom, will enter the Georgian aviation market, the Union of Georgian Airports says.
The information reads that the Union of Georgian Airports has successfully completed one-year intensive negotiations with one of the largest European airlines. As a result, the capitals of Great Britain and Georgia will be connected to each other by a direct air route.
Reportedly, from March 30, 2025, direct regular flights in the direction of London-Tbilisi-London will be carried out four times a week. It is already possible to buy tickets on the website of the airline www.ba.com.
“British Airways is a brand that was founded 50 years ago, but the airline has more than 100 years of operating history. British Airways is a co-founder of OneWorld, a global airline alliance with American Airlines, which is the third largest in the world after SkyTeam and Star Alliance.
A close partnership with American Airlines allows British Airways passengers to enjoy transit flights via London to various cities in the United States. British Airways flies to more than 190 destinations in 65 countries. The airline’s main base is located at London Heathrow Airport, which is one of the busiest airports in Europe,” the information states.
Now reentering the Georgian market, British Airways Tbilisi office announced on March 22, 2004, that the company was pulling out from the country.
“In spite of the ongoing and resolute efforts of the British Embassy in Georgia, the British Government, the new Georgian Government and British Mediterranean Airways to resolve the situation, the Georgian Civil Aviation Authorities remained determined to obstruct the resumption of air services between Georgia and the United Kingdom by British Mediterranean Airways [franchise partner to British Airways],” a statement issued by the company’s Tbilisi office said at the time.
As a result of the decision to suspend services to Georgia for the foreseeable future the British Airways office in Tbilisi ceased trading on the 31st of March 2004.
The Georgian side explained the cancellation of the flight license with the British airlines as being due to unpaid taxes, inadequate legal basis and unsolved disputes with the Georgian flagship company Airzena.
It was reported a year earlier that the company had a problem with the Taxation Department. However, the company representatives dismissed these allegations, saying that the company totally abided with the laws and regulations of the countries to which it operated.
Georgia is happy to welcome British Airways back!
