Virgin challenges BA on domestic routes with plans for running over 20 daily fli

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The battle between Virgin Atlantic and British Airways will intensify this year with the rivals set to clash over new domestic routes.


Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic has unveiled details of its plans for three domestic routes, running 24 daily flights to and from Heathrow from April.


Late last year Virgin acquired a host of Heathrow landing slots which BA had to give up to gain clearance from competition authorities for its takeover of BMI.


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BA acquired 42 slots at Heathrow as a result of IAG's takeover of BMI and it has used almost all of them for domestic routes. There is huge capacity on the London - Scotland routes. This winter it has increased the number of flights per day, increasing the number of passenger seats available by 27,000 a week. It has also introduced more flights a day from Heathrow to Manchester and Leeds.

The new Virgin services to Scotland will be flown by Aer Lingus with four A320 aircraft on wet lease.