Originally Posted by Keg
Give me LHR every day of the week before a crappy AKL-LAX-JFK trip.
At least you can leave the hotel...
(and recently it's been very nice down at the Blue Anchor for an evening pint! Only three tube stops & a short walk.)
The GC track on the link above - tracking south of LA - was, I think, one reason why Qantas (back in about 2000) was planning to go to DFW direct and ordered the ERs. 11 Sep stuffed those plans a bit.
Actually those speaking with the 'birdies' - would a 777 variant able to do YSSY-EGLL direct both ways (reliably year-round), also be able to reliably do direct JFK without payload uplift restriction year-round?