British Airways (BA) is to cut its Dublin to Leeds-Bradford route as part of a restructuring drive that it hopes will help it win back business travellers and take on no-frills airlines.
The company, which had already cut a number of short-haul routes this year, also said its regional carrier, British Airways CitiExpress, would begin three new routes from London City Airport in the southeast of London.
The new services will be aimed at the business traveller, traditionally a British Airways stalwart and a category hard hit in the recent economic downturn and post-September 11th, 2001, fall-off in air travel.
British Airways and other full-cost airlines are also facing stiff competition from no-frills carriers such as EasyJet and Ryanair.
Other services to be withdrawn are Cardiff to Brussels, Aberdeen, Belfast, Jersey and Paris, and Leeds-Bradford to Aberdeen, Bristol, Southampton, Isle of Man and Gatwick, British Airways said.
BA also said it had agreed in principle to transfer 12 planes to Eastern Airways, an independently owned niche regional airline.
The route cuts and transfers would likely cause "a minimum of job losses", a spokeswoman for the company said, although the exact number had not yet been decided.