British Airways will operate a seasonal nonstop service between London Heathrow Airport (LHR) and Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) from November 23 to December 28, 2026. Flights will run five times weekly — on Mondays and Thursdays through Sundays — using Airbus A320-family aircraft.
British Airways lists the service on its official new routes page as a relaunch. The carrier had dropped its Heathrow-Cologne flights in March 2026 as part of a broader network restructuring that also ended Heathrow services to Riga and Stuttgart, per Simple Flying. The seasonal return targets the busiest holiday travel window, covering Christmas market visits, family travel, and business connectivity between London and western Germany.
Cologne Bonn Airport is the gateway to one of Europe's most popular Christmas market cities, and the five-weekly schedule provides daily-adjacent coverage across the festive period. Passengers connecting onward benefit from Heathrow's position as one of the world's largest international hubs, per Aviation Week.
The Cologne relaunch is part of British Airways' broader winter 2026 expansion, which includes new long-haul destinations Melbourne (from January 2027) and Colombo, Sri Lanka (from October 2026), alongside frequency increases to Cape Town, Tokyo Haneda, Bridgetown, and several U.S. cities, per the British Airways winter 2026 press release.
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