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BRITISH Airways CitiExpress is to reduce staff numbers, withdraw from 12 loss making routes and cut capacity following a review of its operations.

The British Airways subsidiary is to cut 500 jobs and withdraw from the following routes: Cardiff to Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle, Bristol to Brussels and Cork, Plymouth to Cork and Dublin, Southampton to Frankfurt, Jersey to Paris, Newcastle to Cork and Belfast to Sheffield.

The carrier is also to launch new routes between Manchester to Venice and Bristol to Leeds/Bradford.

At the same time frequency on a number of routes will be boosted.

In total overall regional capacity will be reduced by eight per cent.

The aim is to reduce the airline’s cost base and deliver annual savings of £20 million by 2004.