Isn't LHR-LOS their most profitable route? Or was at one point? I'd imagine that flight holds a lot of wealthy Nigerians in business. I think JFK is the most profitable route overall. I mean, the frequency sort of speaks for itself. However, I wouldn’t doubt LOS is up there; however, it doesn’t hav...
Jump to postLots of routes with 2 airlines, not many with more:
LHR-CDG - BA, BD, AF
LHR-NRT - BA,VS, NH, JL
City Pairs
LON-DUB - BA, BD, FR, WX, EI
LON-BHD/BFS - BA, U2, BE
TUGMASTER wrote:Think JL also has a LON base
Wow, sounds like you had a really awful trip down to GND. Good you made it evenutally. Not a great time to be at uni, let alone doing semesters abroad.
Jump to postDon't bother with sleeping pills. I presume you're acclimatised to SYD time? Sleep as you can manage on the SYD-LAX flight. You should manage a few hours even in Y on a long evening flight. Stay AWAKE during the LA layover. Go into town, do some sightseeing. You'll almost definitely be exhausted by ...
Jump to postThis is nothing but good news for airlines and those wishing to see family, friends or just to leave the country in general. I doubt that this will significantly see an increase in TATL travel. Europeans can visit plenty of other countries with their EU Green Pass and without testing. Going through...
Jump to postBut it sounds likes they're pretty much setting up an AC Rouge-type subsidiary with denser, lower CASM aircraft for leisure routes as opposed to the above. Because when everyone thinks "leisure," we think "Damn, I REALLY need a vacation to Uzbekistan!" Well done for outing yours...
Jump to postInteresting report, good to see some old planes still flying around the world. The scenes from CCS look pretty miserable; I didn;t know about the govt restricting operations to just a handful of destinations. I guess IB/TP/AF are now gone (at least temporarily)? And TK can charge what they want to E...
Jump to postBA do for standard safety briefings but not much else. I have seen recorded and non recorded on Easyjet (I sometimes wonder if the non recorded ones are training flights as I presume the cabin crew must be able to do non recorded briefings! Actually BA don't use pre-recorded annoucements at all for...
Jump to postBA do for standard safety briefings but not much else. I have seen recorded and non recorded on Easyjet (I sometimes wonder if the non recorded ones are training flights as I presume the cabin crew must be able to do non recorded briefings! Actually BA don't use pre-recorded annoucements at all for...
Jump to postNice post! God to read to retro trip reports!
Jump to postI asked this a while ago. I think one of the reasons was to confuse on time statistics.
Jump to postHow is the meal service right now on BA Club World/First during covid? - FIRST and Club both have slimmed down offerings. Either the first or second service will have a "hot element" (main course in First, hot wrap in Club) for one meal service, but not both. Otherwise, there is a reasonab...
Jump to postjfk777 wrote:where is it stopping on its way back ? IS Manila the repatriation destination.
Airports that i've walked to: BRE, LIS, BRR, RMI, CPH, TSA, LCY, NCE, RKV, SAN, IPC, ANR, BLL, PSA, LCA Can't walk to Osaka airport from anywhere as it is in the middle of the sea. Actually Osaka Airport (ITM) is in a densely populated area, and you CAN walk there. Kansai Airport (KIX) is in the mid...
Jump to postCurrently the only way to get from Europe to Maldives, barring the Gatwick flight and AF's 3/week 789 service from CDG, is connecting via a Middle East carrier. I wonder if this new flight will be timed to meet connections from NA, like what BA recently did with its ISB flight. The Maldives are lit...
Jump to postAircraft without proper lie-flat crew rest are limited in the time they can operate. At BA these are the G-VII* machines, and won't go further than around 9 hours (they go as far as India/BGI/NBO/SEA etc. The G-YMM* ones have crew rest fitted and can fly much further (e.g. PVG/BKK/EZE). All the 777-...
Jump to postIt rarely rain in loss angeles too But we have an extensive set of drainage canals, most of the time used to film cheesy TV shows, but I have seen the water flowing over the bridges during 10 year storms. People forget the big parks hold the water with the exit spillways having limited area to prev...
Jump to postLHR, I will be seeing the Houston Texans play and I want to hit up the pub that is the former embassy for the republic of Texas. I had no idea this was a thing! I'll look out for that the next time i'm in the area! JNB I need some help with, I was told by my coworker to see the Apartheid museum and...
Jump to postThere's a lot of UK-MA traffic, but it's nearly all tourist/VFR. And Casablanca isn't a tourist draw for Brits. Bmi operated LHR-CMN for a while, but it obviously wasn't strong enough for BA to maintain. I think you might mean GB Airways - I regularly flew LHR-CMN with them 2004-06 - apologies if I...
Jump to postThere's a lot of UK-MA traffic, but it's nearly all tourist/VFR. And Casablanca isn't a tourist draw for Brits. Bmi operated LHR-CMN for a while, but it obviously wasn't strong enough for BA to maintain.
Jump to postVS transferred Las Vegas from LGW to LHR in February 2019. It was previously year round from LGW and not seasonal, it is still year round now that's it at LHR, it's flown by the B789. As far as I'm aware VS haven't made any announcement regarding LHR to LAS going seasonal, I'm sure that Sean ( my n...
Jump to postLondon: LHR, LGW, LTN, STN, LCY, SEN Belfast: BFS, BHD Paris: ORY, CDG Berlin: SXF, TXL Reykjavik: RKV, KEF Milan: LIN, MXP Moscow: DME, SVO Warsaw: WAW, WMI Istanbul: SAW, IST Georgetown (Guyana): OGL, GEO New York: JFK, LGA, EWR Washington: IAD, DCA Seattle: SEA, LKE Vancouver: YVR, CXH Buenos Air...
Jump to postquestions wrote:Are routes to Las Vegas premium light, medium or heavy?
As long as there are seats available in your cabin (not fare class) then you can change for free. You can change any time on the day after midnight UK time, up to 1 hour before departure. It's a great benefit of the Plus fare, especially if the later flights are considerably cheaper than the earlier...
Jump to postThere are plenty of small airlines that run these milk run trips. LIAT in the Carribean does plenty, like LI 512 OGL-BGI-ANU-SKB, and Wideroe in Norway do some. MH used to run a twice weekly 747 KUL-JNB-CPT-EZE A lot of the current BA LGW 777 services to the Caribbean do little hops, like BA 2159 LG...
Jump to postAccording to my Flight Memory, i've logged 91 x 747-400, with BA, VS, BR, UA, SQ, TG, NH, MH, LH, CA & NZ. I did a few more flights when I was younger too. Caught the 747Combi with CA, the 747-8i with LH and the 747-400D (short range) with NH.
Jump to postWhen AI got their first 787s, I boarded one in CCU on the right hand side (by steps, 4R), not sure why. And a few years earlier I disembarked a BA 772 in SAN on the right hands side (1R), but I think that was due to a citywide power cut - it took them ages to find steps high enough for us. I guess n...
Jump to postA few years ago I flew Biman Bangladesh CCU-DAC-KTM. When booking the first sector was showing as an A310, and the second as a DC10. At check in in CCU I was told it was an Airbus (and free seating), but when we boarded it was actually a DC10! On the next sector, an A310 turned up! So I got what I w...
Jump to postYa, it's a pretty unacceptable practice. It may not be "full fare," but when you're paying $6k or more for a ticket - any ticket - and you don't get seat selection, then you'll lose customers pretty quickly imo. I'm a pretty frequent international J-class flyer and I stay away from BA as ...
Jump to postI was on a Delta BOS LAX flight on a 757. Sat near the rear exit row of the doors that are behind the wing. Before takeoff, as soon as the FA took her rear- facing seat, she was immediately on her cell phone and was face down in that phone until the chime at 10k feet, when she unbuckled to do her n...
Jump to postPardon my ignorance, but I don't understand why more than 25 hours between flights is necessary. Sure, a 19 hour duty day is long and challenging. But I would think an entire day is quite sufficient to recover. Is it enough time to get out and about and do any sightseeing in London? Absolutely not....
Jump to postFirst (14) Club World (52) World Traveller Plus (36) World Traveller (235) Total: 337 On today's (9 April) LHR-AUS flight, the majority of seats in First, Club World and World Traveller Plus are booked, for AUS-LHR it's First and Club World. Actually both the first (GCIVI) and second (GCIVZ) flight...
Jump to postYou can nearly guarantee that if the flight operates from Terminal 3 at LHR, then it is the denser (52J) 744 (with the unrefreshed interiors). Destinations include CPT, LAS, YVR, NBO. JFK also gets them, as there is one on the way right now (BA115).
Jump to postI think this is a ridiculous list. Gernally agreed, especially as the time frames on such specific small markets. Sanya? the island town in China? you have to be joking right? Actually this is one that I could see working. The beach resorts of Southern Hainan are full of Russian tourists (and there...
Jump to postI have 11,258 Avios miles in a BA household account. Can i use these with QR for business class for 5 people? If so, how much would it reduce the price of 5 people by? Sorry, but I couldn't help but LOL at that question. 11K Avios will get ONE person from London to Milan and back in ECONOMY. It's n...
Jump to postMost flights headed to Africa from Europe go with the water tanks 100% full. Whilst filling those tanks takes a lot of valuable water, it really is a drop in the ocean (so to speak) of the entire water demand for the city. If everyone is limited to 50L a day (is that right?), and the population is ...
Jump to postSo I'm travelling to San José, Costa Rica next January on the direct Gatwick flight. Does anybody know whether all planes will be reconfigured to the new 10 abreast configuration or only some of the LGW fleet. Contrary to most I want to be on the new fleet as i'd rather the newer IFE. Also are the ...
Jump to postMost flights headed to Africa from Europe go with the water tanks 100% full. Whilst filling those tanks takes a lot of valuable water, it really is a drop in the ocean (so to speak) of the entire water demand for the city. If everyone is limited to 50L a day (is that right?), and the population is ~...
Jump to postBA are filling their CPT flights very easily, and the fares aren't cheap. Adding the LGW-CPT flights, as well as an extra few rotations from LHR jan-Mar is catering to the very high numbers of tourists visiting SA. This is peak tourist time.
Jump to postVS also dropped CPT-LHR a while back, so I wonder how is BA doing on the route? Regarding JNB-LHR, if BA are doing double daily on a 380 (in winter/southern summer), plus VS daily on a 789, the route can't be bleeding that much to the ME3 and must still be quite lucrative, no? Or are BA and VS soft...
Jump to postCTU-ORD seems reasonable. SZX-VIE less so. VIE only got a HKG flight relatively recently, I can't think of many people needing to go from Shenzhen to Vienna!
Jump to postI guess you've not sat in the nose then? Very quiet in there. If you walk from front to rear in flight you'll notice a massive difference in noise levels.
Jump to postReading isn't your strongpoint is it, read the OP:. You know what, I clearly didn't read to the end, my bad. Did I provide incorrect or misleading info? Quite the opposite, I provided info, and an useful fact about stopping over in a not-too-visited country that the OP might have not thought about....
Jump to postThey don't serve alcohol, if that's important to you, but you can drink your own onboard. If you can get a stopover in Brunei, it's well worth doing for a day or two.
Jump to postNBO
DEN
CLT
EWR (i've been to NYC, but not on the NJ side)
FRA (only gone from the airport to the train station)
OTP (airport hotel on an overnight connection)
RUH
JED
UEL (not a hub)
EBB
ADD (airport hotel on an overnight connection)
JIQ (OK, this isn't a hub, and didn't leave the plane)
ALL shorthual services to/from LHR/LGW in economy are Buy on Board (BoB), except Moscow. The 767s in the fleet are now only shorthual, so no chance to get a longhual configuration. ATH has historically been one of the few European cities where the 767 has always shown up on one of the daily flights ...
Jump to postGABRIEL, **** You MUST WRITE A TRIP REPORT ! ***** :D Honestly, why did not you told me this before??? We could have been together on the LGW-KGL flight!! Only at the last minute my brother informed me about your twitter account and your intentions :( Anyway, hope you enjoyed the flights and finger...
Jump to postANA787 wrote:DL37 LHR-PDX is already enroute.
DL36 PDX-LHR is scheduled to depart just after 5pm.
Hope some of the famous spotters in the UK will take some great shots for the maiden commercial flight to Europe beginning next Friday. :) as a reminder here are the time tables: WB700 KGL1220 – 2000LGW 332 2 WB700 KGL1230 – 2010LGW 332 34 WB700 KGL1245 – 2025LGW 332 5 WB701 LGW2130 – 0710+1KGL 332...
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