Sir Keir Starmer, who has served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July of 2024, is currently undertaking a trade mission to India as the British government looks to strengthen the business ties between the two nations. As part of this initiative, 
British Airways is looking to boost its capacity on Indian routes, having flown the PM and other dignitaries from London to Mumbai earlier in the week.
The 
oneworld founding member currently serves five destinations in India, and is hoping to be able to increase its frequency on one of these routes to an impressive three round trips a day. It will also improve its cabins on these corridors, with first class returning to one of the routes later this month and an enhanced business class rollout by the end of 2026. With this in mind, let’s examine BA’s Asian network.
Indian Growth
On October 7, a BA Boeing 777-300ER that bears the registration G-STBI took off from 
London Heathrow Airport (LHR) bound for Mumbai International (BOM) While this is a route that the airline normally serves twice a day, this service was a charter flight carrying, as BA puts it, “around 130 top UK CEOs and senior government ministers” as part of the trade mission seeking to strengthen business ties.
Per Cirium, an aviation analytics company, Mumbai is one of five Indian destinations served by BA. Bengaluru, Chennai, and Hyderabad see daily flights, while Delhi is served twice a day. Going forward, however, BA is seeking approval to boost the latter to thrice-daily next year, and has also pledged to roll out its Club Suite business class cabin on all five Indian routes. British Airways Chair and CEO Sean Doyle said:
“Today, we have around 2,500 colleagues based [in India]. We’ve been steadily increasing capacity over the years, and we’re now operating 56 direct services to five Indian cities each week.”
Singapore Is BA’s Top Non-Indian Asian Destination
This month, British Airways has scheduled a grand total of 452 flights on its five routes between Indian and its main hub at Heathrow. The country is, as BA puts it, a “key global market,” with this figure representing almost 43.5% of its Asian operations in terms of scheduled flights in October 2025. With almost 1.5 million scheduled seats between the UK and India each year, it is BA’s biggest non-US market.
The UK flag carrier has penciled in 1,040 services on its various Asian routes this month, with these flights collectively offering totals of 262,436 seats and 1,360,469,564 available seat miles. Its widebody aircraft families of choice here are the Airbus A350, Boeing 777, and Boeing 787 series.
While Delhi and Mumbai are typically served twice a day by BA, these are not the only Asian destinations with such a frequency. Indeed, two British Airways flights touch down at and depart from Singapore Changi Airport (SIN) every day, with one (BA15) continuing to Sydney (SYD) in Australia.
Other Key Corridors
Elsewhere in Asia, BA also flies almost twice a day on average to Tokyo Haneda Airport (HND) in Japan. This is despite European operators needing to fly longer routes to certain Asian destinations due to Russian airspace closures, underlining strong demand. 58 round trips are planned this month.
Away from India, there are also two other Asian destinations that BA will be serving on a daily basis this month. These are Hong Kong (HKG) and Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL), with its aircraft of choice on these routes respectively being the Airbus A350-1000 and Boeing 787-9 ‘Dreamliner.’ It used to fly twice a day to Hong Kong, but had to halve its capacity due to Russian airspace closures.
As far as Asian routes with lower frequencies are concerned, BA also flies less regularly to Bangkok (BKK), Islamabad (ISB), Male (MLE), Shanghai (PVG), and Tbilisi (TBS). The latter of these resumed in March after being shelved in 2013, with the jet of choice being the Airbus A320.
