T8KE0FF From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2009, 400 posts, RR: 1 Posted (3 years 2 months 3 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 7604 times:
In august/september our family are looking to go to New York. My dad claims that when he was searching for flights he saw a DIRECT UA flight from BHX to JFK. Is this for real??
No airlines actually even fly the BHX-JFK route so it can't be a codeshare. However I am wondering about maybe the routing was BHX-DUB-JFK beacuse of the EI and the UA codeshare or something??
Would love to know if this is really gonna happen!!!
kiwiandrew From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 8435 posts, RR: 14 Reply 1, posted (3 years 2 months 3 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 7591 times:
Quoting T8KE0FF (Thread starter): In august/september our family are looking to go to New York. My dad claims that when he was searching for flights he saw a DIRECT UA flight from BHX to JFK. Is this for real??
Is he sure that it wasn't a UA codeshare on the BHX-EWR flight operated by CO ? That would be my guess .
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surfandsnow From United States of America, joined Jan 2009, 2618 posts, RR: 31 Reply 3, posted (3 years 2 months 3 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 6936 times:
Now now, UA would be in MAN (the next most important British market, after London) loooooong before BHX. That said, I imagine they are probably looking at quite a few European cities - perhaps a return to MXP and/or DUS, or more capitals - DUB and MAD will be covered by EI, and partner *A already fly to CPH and VIE, but maybe ARN, TXL, PRG, ATH, and/or IST would do well for them. I would think DUS, TXL, and IST would be the most logical European additions, though I think other transatlantic flights - TLV, CAI, DEL, BOM, maybe even AMM or RUH - might be more lucrative right now.
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BigGSFO From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2762 posts, RR: 7 Reply 4, posted (3 years 2 months 3 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 6700 times:
If UA were to serve BHX, it wouldn't be from New York. It would most likely be from IAD or Chicago.
gilesdavies From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 2903 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (3 years 2 months 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 6395 times:
I think the likely explanation is when your Dad was looking for flights, the booking engine have has shown flights to other airports in the NYC metro area, and instead of displaying the CO flight it has shown the same flight with a UA flight code...
Depending on the booking engine used, they quite often show alternative airports serving the same city... For example, I have seen in the past US Airways LGW to CLT flight, being operated by BMI, and was searching for flights LHR to CLT.
Also some booking engines also allow you to search by city instead and have their own IATA code as opposed to IATA codes for the airport itself. Like some engines recognise LON as London (covering LHR, LGW, STN, LTN and LCY) and NYC as New York covering (JFK, EWR and LGA), etc...
United1 From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 5379 posts, RR: 8 Reply 7, posted (3 years 2 months 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 6229 times:
Quoting T8KE0FF (Reply 6): He said it was DEFINITELY JFK...
If you do a search for JFK-BHX on united.com a JFK-IAD-EWR-BXH flight operated by UA and CO pops up....perhaps that is what your dad is looking at.
jetsetter629 From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 412 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (3 years 2 months 3 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 6017 times:
Quoting T8KE0FF (Reply 6): He said it was DEFINITELY JFK...
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