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Old 19th Feb 2011, 17:19
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Sorry everyone ignore my last post. I was getting Male mixed up with the Seychelles!!!
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Old 19th Feb 2011, 21:23
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Connections to BA flights

In the context of BA 'beach holiday' flights, don't forget that many of us outside SE England use Lo-Co carriers to get us to our final departure point. From that point of view, LGW is much more convenient than LHR, and the more flights that BA schedule from LGW the better, as far as I am concerned.
For example, when I need to fly to TPA, I fly into LGW the evening before, straight to hotel and depart the next morning, with no travel round the M25. On the inbound sector, even better. Arrive from TPA about 9:00 a.m. and catch the EZY flight to MJV 3 hours later.
As has been stated before, BA is becoming more and more of a 'point to point' air-line. In BA's shoes I would be seeing how I could use the EZY arrival schedule to slot into my departure time-table [wistful thinking I know]
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Old 20th Feb 2011, 06:09
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For example, when I need to fly to TPA, I fly into LGW the evening before, straight to hotel and depart the next morning, with no travel round the M25. On the inbound sector, even better. Arrive from TPA about 9:00 a.m. and catch the EZY flight to MJV 3 hours later.
I would be worried about EZY cancellations and all the dramas associated with that. Now BA and IB are one so to speak surely going via MAD would be a better alternative for you?

If you live 'North of the Thames' then many people still find travelling to LGW quite daunting in this day and age. Therefore I guess many would not want to see their destinations transferred from LHR. Living in BHX I would be allowing 5-6 hours to get to LGW. Not a pleasant thought.
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Old 20th Feb 2011, 12:48
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I think those of us who live north of the Thames would be more worried about BA cancellations than EZY or FR cancellations !
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Old 20th Feb 2011, 18:33
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Please don't forget that those of us to the south also need connections; and connecting via Madrid is not necessarily convenient. BA moving its Malaga flights to Gatwick, this means a trip around the M25 if I want to continue flying BA or any other LHR carrier; as most of my business is to the East, it's either this; an additional connecting flight via Madrid to get to Heathrow or switch my business to Lufthansa. At the moment I'm making the most of BA and it's connections via Heathrow until the new summer time table kicks in.
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Old 20th Feb 2011, 21:10
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Hi crewmeal

Your thinking is spot on, but why should I fly from ALC to MAD to LGW when I can fly direct from ALC to LGW with EZY, who, in my 10 years of flying with them have never cancelled a flight, apart from the most severe circumstances?
If I lived in Glasgow, and wanted to fly almost anywhere in the world, the first step would be to fly to LGW with EZY. Once at LGW I can pick where I want to fly - this is the market that BA need to tap into.
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Old 20th Feb 2011, 21:19
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Since BA lost interest in Glasgow long ago we now use KLM/Emirates/Continental for our connections.
Emirates in particular has most of the Australian business nowadays.
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Old 20th Feb 2011, 21:36
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Since BA lost interest in Glasgow long ago we now use KLM/Emirates/Continental for our connections.
Emirates in particular has most of the Australian business nowadays.
Not sure what your point is, BA connections are there as they've always been over LHR. Scotland-Australia with EK is a no brainer as it's one stop versus at least two with BA / QF over LHR. Indeed the only non stop international routes ever operated from Glasgow since 1990 with BA were Paris and New York, both long gone. It's a myth that BA had much of a network out of GLA, they shuttled people to BHX/MAN/GLA, never direct.

Was sitting in the old shuttle lounge this afternoon waiting to board the BA1493 looking at the peeling "To Fly, To Serve" stickers on the windows. They've been coming off for years but no one's ever thought to clean the windows....which is odd given that it's a pre 1997 branding!
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Old 21st Feb 2011, 05:25
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but why should I fly from ALC to MAD to LGW when I can fly direct from ALC to LGW with EZY
I was referring to wowzz's post about connecting at LGW to Florida. I can't see the point of flying all the way north to LGW if all you have to do is fly to MAD and connect. There again with all the extra surcharges it would probably be cheaper flying to LGW.

Regarding connecting flights I always use EK & TK from BHX where I can. Also CO to EWR if I'm going in the other direction. There are plenty of connections and as Skipness points out one stop is better than 2.
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Old 21st Feb 2011, 12:20
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Have heard that BA looking to come back to DUB, mainly LGW-DUB and possibly moving the LCY-SNN-JFK stop to DUB, and hint of a notion that this might indeed be a slight possiblility that it may just happen?
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Old 21st Feb 2011, 13:31
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Have heard that BA looking to come back to DUB
What's changed? They still don't have an aircraft they can make money with as they're still on B734s at LGW and would be up against both FR and EI.

Time is money for people using LCY-JFK and joining the queue for departure from DUB versus off straight away from SNN would not be a step in the right direction. What does DUB bring to the table over SNN?

If the LCY-JFK route goes via DUB I have no doubt it'll be parked next to the Air India hub....
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Old 21st Feb 2011, 13:45
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would be up against both FR and EI.
Don't BA codeshare with EI?
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Old 21st Feb 2011, 13:47
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Don't BA codeshare with EI?
Don't know whether you can book DUB onto BA long haul but you can't book LGW-DUB on ba.com whereas you can book LGW-ABZ with flybe.
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Old 21st Feb 2011, 13:52
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Don't know whether you can book DUB onto BA long haul but you can't book LGW-DUB on ba.com whereas you can book LGW-ABZ with flybe
Probably just LHR then...
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Old 21st Feb 2011, 22:15
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BA do codeshare with EI ex DUB, ORK and SNN.

however these services cant be booked as a standalone booking, they can only be booked as part of an onward booking, ie DUB-LHR-SFO with the DUB-LHR sector earning miles and tp's

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Old 22nd Feb 2011, 09:01
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European airlines top IAG's shopping list | Reuters

I think IAG needs to capitalise on it's week areas: Far East/South Ear Asia and Africa.

Finnair is an obvious choice however TAP is also being banded about. If the latter takes place, along with IAG's partnership with AA; they pretty much dominate the EU-North America, South America, Caribbean.

If Finnair joined it would certainly help with the pathetic Asia network that IAG have.

Finally, surely Aer Lingus must be in the pot? SAS anyone?
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Old 24th Feb 2011, 11:33
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Sharm-el-Shark chopped Exclusive, in other news "Pope Catholic"

Confirmation just come through LGW-SSH is dropped from 3-May. Wonder what they'd use the B772 for now?
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Old 24th Feb 2011, 22:20
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FT.com / Companies / UK companies - BA bitten in web protest over bed bugs

Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite................
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Old 25th Feb 2011, 10:27
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BAck in profit and scrapping 747s

BBC News - BA parent firm IAG posts 21m euro profit

Looks like G-BNLB and G-BNLC at Cardiff to go, no surprise as they were never ferried for "proper" storage at Victorville and have been in the Welsh drizzle for years.
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Old 25th Feb 2011, 15:29
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A bit of good news - Profit @ BA

British Airways announces nine-month profits and colleague bonus

Profit before tax of £157m
Operating profit £342m
Colleagues share in first bonus since 2007/08
Revenue up 8.8%
Underlying costs flat
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