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Seating question on behalf of a friend
My friend who is in a wheelchair and has booked with BA LHR to LAS A/C B744 has asked if I can find out what if any seats or rows are allocated to disabled passengers he was not in a wheelchair when he booked the flights but is now in an air boot for a fully ruptured Achilles' tendon he is wondering due to the boot if he will get extra legroom not in an exit but near a toilet and with the seating being 3-4-3 and only 2 are traveling are BA likely to block one of the 3
Any advice welcome before he called BA to book SPCL services cheers
My friend who is in a wheelchair and has booked with BA LHR to LAS A/C B744 has asked if I can find out what if any seats or rows are allocated to disabled passengers he was not in a wheelchair when he booked the flights but is now in an air boot for a fully ruptured Achilles' tendon he is wondering due to the boot if he will get extra legroom not in an exit but near a toilet and with the seating being 3-4-3 and only 2 are traveling are BA likely to block one of the 3
Any advice welcome before he called BA to book SPCL services cheers
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Yeah read on another site its being subsidized by the Local Tourist Board.
Can see it doing well, a strong tourist city and its actually got a reasonably big catchment when you consider the wider American Gulf Coast area. The seats up front might be a slight concern. Been twice and love the place.
Can see it doing well, a strong tourist city and its actually got a reasonably big catchment when you consider the wider American Gulf Coast area. The seats up front might be a slight concern. Been twice and love the place.
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To add to the speculation a press conference has been arranged at New Orleans airport at 9am local time tomorrow:
https://content.govdelivery.com/acco...letins/16c6e03
https://content.govdelivery.com/acco...letins/16c6e03
So it's back to New Orleans for BA. Back in the 80's it was a LHR based Tristar and crew who operated. Aircraft went on to Mexico City with crew doing two shuttles in what I seem to think was a 9 day trip.
Not good loads back then but popular for staff travel.
Not good loads back then but popular for staff travel.
From what I read Chengdu loaded well in the summer but was hopeless in the winter. Presumably it was mostly inbound tourist traffic. You wonder if it could have continued as a seasonal service but presumably that would not have attracted much corporate business travel. Might a seasonal route make sense for a leisure based airline (VS out of LGW or a Chinese carrier now that the new bilateral offers more frequencies?)
Willie Walsh had plans for BA to serve half a dozen Chinese destinations. I don't know what this means for that.
On the bright side BA seems to do well with new transatlantic routes - LHR is better situated for transfer traffic - so it would not surprise me if MSY is successful.
Willie Walsh had plans for BA to serve half a dozen Chinese destinations. I don't know what this means for that.
On the bright side BA seems to do well with new transatlantic routes - LHR is better situated for transfer traffic - so it would not surprise me if MSY is successful.
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I that's it as far as new destinations in China are concerned.
On a more positive note since CTU launched, BA has gone double daily to PVG and Iberia has also launched MAD-PVG. BA also does have a codeshare arrangement with China Eastern so, overall, at an IAG level, its coverage of China has improved.
Chinese long haul secondary city air routes: BA's Chengdu exit does not reflect the broader market | CAPA - Centre for Aviation
If/when Finnair joins IAG then coverage will improve further.
As for MSY, I'm sure it will be quite a success. No doubt more 787 transatlantic routes will come as so many US cities seem to be lobbying BA hard for new routes:
British Airways to connect London, New Orleans with nonstop flights | NOLA.com
On a more positive note since CTU launched, BA has gone double daily to PVG and Iberia has also launched MAD-PVG. BA also does have a codeshare arrangement with China Eastern so, overall, at an IAG level, its coverage of China has improved.
Chinese long haul secondary city air routes: BA's Chengdu exit does not reflect the broader market | CAPA - Centre for Aviation
If/when Finnair joins IAG then coverage will improve further.
As for MSY, I'm sure it will be quite a success. No doubt more 787 transatlantic routes will come as so many US cities seem to be lobbying BA hard for new routes:
British Airways to connect London, New Orleans with nonstop flights | NOLA.com
Heathrow is on the right side of Europe for connections to/from the USA, and on the wrong side for connections to/from China (for Finnair in Helsinki the opposite applies, as is apparent from their own established route structure).
New Orleans does not have, I believe, any European flights at present whereas Chengdu, a place most in the UK have never heard of, has a surprising number of other nonstop European flights and operators to better connection points.
I think there would be a balanced 50-50 level of demand for the New Orleans route from both sides of the Atlantic, whereas Chengdu must generate little traffic originating in Europe.
New Orleans does not have, I believe, any European flights at present whereas Chengdu, a place most in the UK have never heard of, has a surprising number of other nonstop European flights and operators to better connection points.
I think there would be a balanced 50-50 level of demand for the New Orleans route from both sides of the Atlantic, whereas Chengdu must generate little traffic originating in Europe.
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There is no doubt there is an element of taking on Norwegian here.
IAG did say some time ago they are actively reviewing its business model and an announcement may be imminent about its response may be announced at the forthcoming Capital Markets Day.
IAG did say some time ago they are actively reviewing its business model and an announcement may be imminent about its response may be announced at the forthcoming Capital Markets Day.