British Airways to Offer Direct Services to Silicon Valley, San José

Silicon Valley will benefit from direct flights to Heathrow as British Airways is set to start non-stop services to San José next summer.

San José is the software capital of the world and home to household hi-tech giants such as Apple, Google, Adobe, Cisco, eBay and Intel, as well as thousands of tech start-ups and Stanford University in the vicinity of Palo Alto.

This will be British Airways' fourth destination in California, after Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, and the only service between Europe and San José.

The new service to San José will be aboard British Airways' brand new 787-9 Dreamliner, while travellers can already benefit from daily services to Los Angeles and San Francisco with the super-jumbo A380 – the largest passenger aircraft in the world.
"There's no better place to fly the world's most advanced passenger aircraft than to the hi-tech and innovation capital of the world, San José," said Stephen Humphreys, British Airways, head of global sales.

"Our new daily service will offer fantastic direct flights between Silicon Valley and London, with onward connections to scores of destinations around the globe on our extensive world-wide network.
"We're sure this new service will prove just the business for Californian-based companies looking to expand into Europe and will establish London's solid commercial ties with the West Coast.
"It also offers a wonderful connection for visitors to nearby Carmel and Monterey on the rugged central coast along highway one, and easy access to the unparalleled magnificence of Yosemite National Park."

The new British Airways daily flights will start on May 4th, 2016.