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While I don't have the time or energy to do a proper destination analysis, if we take narrow- and wide-body as a proxy for the shorthaul/longhaul split (crude, but Heathrow does the same in its reporting), then wide-bodies accounted for 41% of ATMs last month, compared with 36% in July 2013.
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Increased % long haul flights, new runway
The increasing proportion of longhaul/widebody flights is entirely consistent with the ambition of (particularly) BA to serve more and more N American destinations at the expense of the rest of the world and especially UK feeder flights.
If Heathrow is to continue to function as a hub for the whole UK, and thus a national asset, what it needs is not a new runway, but half a new runway, ie one suitable for short and medium haul flights.
But privatisation, of BA and Heathrow, probably put an end to any such strategic considerations...
If Heathrow is to continue to function as a hub for the whole UK, and thus a national asset, what it needs is not a new runway, but half a new runway, ie one suitable for short and medium haul flights.
But privatisation, of BA and Heathrow, probably put an end to any such strategic considerations...
Perhaps one could rename British Airways as British Overseas Airways Corporation and Easyjet as British European Airways to reflect the destinations served by each carrier. Or have those names been used before ?
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Well, we have a Dan Air out there again. That is a start.
The increasing proportion of longhaul/widebody flights is entirely consistent with the ambition of (particularly) BA to serve more and more N American destinations at the expense of the rest of the world and especially UK feeder flights.
If Heathrow is to continue to function as a hub for the whole UK, and thus a national asset, what it needs is not a new runway, but half a new runway, ie one suitable for short and medium haul flights.
But privatisation, of BA and Heathrow, probably put an end to any such strategic considerations...
If Heathrow is to continue to function as a hub for the whole UK, and thus a national asset, what it needs is not a new runway, but half a new runway, ie one suitable for short and medium haul flights.
But privatisation, of BA and Heathrow, probably put an end to any such strategic considerations...
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Recently did IOM 》DUB 》JFK, only just worked. If I had done IOM 》LHR 》JFK I could have had loads of choice of flights almost every hour through the LHR hub. I'll add to that choice to other NY airports. EWR from DUB involves a nightstop.
DUB is rather limited being only a handful of flights per day to limited places whereas LHR gives you so much choice regardless.
Recently did IOM 》DUB 》JFK, only just worked. If I had done IOM 》LHR 》JFK I could have had loads of choice of flights almost every hour through the LHR hub. I'll add to that choice to other NY airports. EWR from DUB involves a nightstop.
Recently did IOM 》DUB 》JFK, only just worked. If I had done IOM 》LHR 》JFK I could have had loads of choice of flights almost every hour through the LHR hub. I'll add to that choice to other NY airports. EWR from DUB involves a nightstop.
I also notice nowadays that BA has far more transit passengers from other European points through Heathrow than used to be the case.
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DUB is rather limited being only a handful of flights per day to limited places whereas LHR gives you so much choice regardless.
Recently did IOM 》DUB 》JFK, only just worked. If I had done IOM 》LHR 》JFK I could have had loads of choice of flights almost every hour through the LHR hub. I'll add to that choice to other NY airports. EWR from DUB involves a nightstop.
Recently did IOM 》DUB 》JFK, only just worked. If I had done IOM 》LHR 》JFK I could have had loads of choice of flights almost every hour through the LHR hub. I'll add to that choice to other NY airports. EWR from DUB involves a nightstop.
We save a fortune by NOT using LHR for long-haul
CDG also has an utter cluster**** of terminals if you're connecting, it's worse than LHR by quite some way. And people usually complain that LHR harms regional UK-NYC because of all the cheap seats offered due to the frequency!
To be fair to CDG... terminals 2B and 2D have now been merged into one big terminal... and since they reopened post-refurbishment, they are reasonably nice to use. Orly has now become one big single terminal (South and West are now joined together). My understanding is that ADP are trying to do something similiar with other parts of T2 at CDG.
SAS to leave Star for SkyTeam after picking Air France-KLM and Castlelake as investors
https://www.flightglobal.com/airline...155224.article
Have a look at which terminal Delta and Virgin use at Heathrow. Then look at which terminal Air France and KLM use
https://www.flightglobal.com/airline...155224.article
Have a look at which terminal Delta and Virgin use at Heathrow. Then look at which terminal Air France and KLM use
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SAS to leave Star for SkyTeam after picking Air France-KLM and Castlelake as investors
https://www.flightglobal.com/airline...155224.article
Have a look at which terminal Delta and Virgin use at Heathrow. Then look at which terminal Air France and KLM use
https://www.flightglobal.com/airline...155224.article
Have a look at which terminal Delta and Virgin use at Heathrow. Then look at which terminal Air France and KLM use
SAS have quite a sizeable operation at LHR. I wonder how easy it would be for them to switch terminals. Probably T4 could take them but wouldn’t make connections as nice as BA has (for the services all in T5 at least).
Turkmenistan Airlines
Turkmenistan Airlines are to resume flights to London Heathrow from the 04 November 2023.
Turkmenistan Airlines are to move their existing service from Ashgabat to London from London Stansted Airport to London Heathrow Airport. Turkmenistan Airlines previously served London Heathrow until February 2019.
T5427 ASB 12.00 LHR 14.00 73H 6
T5428 LHR 15.20 ASB 02.30+1 73H 6
Turkmenistan Airlines are to move their existing service from Ashgabat to London from London Stansted Airport to London Heathrow Airport. Turkmenistan Airlines previously served London Heathrow until February 2019.
T5427 ASB 12.00 LHR 14.00 73H 6
T5428 LHR 15.20 ASB 02.30+1 73H 6
Virgin Atlantic are to cease flight's between London Heathrow and Austin from the 07 January 2024.
Virgin Atlantic are to increase flight's between London Heathrow and Barbados from 10 January 2024 until 29 March 2024.
Virgin Atlantic are to increase flight's between London Heathrow and Miami from 11 weekly to 14 a week for the 2024 summer season.
Virgin Atlantic will increase flight's between London Heathrow to Dubai from four weekly to daily for the Winter 2024/25 season.
Virgin Atlantic are to increase flight's between London Heathrow and Barbados from 10 January 2024 until 29 March 2024.
Virgin Atlantic are to increase flight's between London Heathrow and Miami from 11 weekly to 14 a week for the 2024 summer season.
Virgin Atlantic will increase flight's between London Heathrow to Dubai from four weekly to daily for the Winter 2024/25 season.
