What would you do?

[craig51]

If coming from houston, would you fly continental to newark, then newark to edinburgh, again continetnal, or houston to gatwick via continental, then gatwick to edinburgh via BA

Answers and why!

[eggc]

I'd take a NJE Gulf V, but that probably doesn't help you much :}

Seriously tho' I would rather connect in EWR for three reasons...

1 & 2) I am not keen on Gatwick, or BA !
3) EWR splits the journey a bit better; 3hrs + 5 1/2hrs rather than a lenghty 8hrs + 1 1/2hrs

[AircraftOperations]

An 8 hour leg gives you more chance to sleep though.

I'd always prefer to stay with the same airline for bags and delay reasons where possible. Unless you are booking a through ticket with CO and BA throught LGW?

[craig51]

booked through amex!

[PaperTiger]

CO IAH-AMS
KL AMS-EDI

EWR-EDI is a 757 :eek:

[Hartington]

I think I'd prefer London. Longer flight to get more sleep.

But beware (and this isn't the normal LHR scare story). BA are moving all sorts of flights around during March/April. The Houstons are moving to Heathrow and I think they will move to T5 from end March. However, not all the T4 flights are moving until end April. I think the domestics also move to T5 end March but make sure you know which airport is being used *and* which terminal.

The class issue is that CO are 2 class while BA is 4 class. Depending on your budget etc you may get a "better" (subjective) seat on BA by paying a little more (although domestic is one class).

Oh, and check the seating on the CO 757 EWR to EDI if you're travelling business/club. Just be sure you're getting their full international business class.

[UniFoxOs]

Why would you even want to consider two lots of check-in hassle at US airports??


UFO

[Donkey497]

Mate, if you want to do IAH-EDI, the best way to do this was Delta IAH to ATL then take the DL 97 direct from ATL to EDI. Did it EDI-IAH in cattle class a whole lot of times since Delta put the route on last year and never had a bad flight. Myself & a few colleagues did this trip quite a number of times for work and talking about it, we all agree that it's better to have the transatlantic leg as the last leg & all the better if it's overnight as well.
Unfortunately, Delta pulled the EDI-ATL flight back in October and might eventually replace it with an EDI-EWR service in mid May next year, we are still holding out collective breath

As a result, you are probably better to fly from houston to Newark (EWR) then on to Edinburgh on Continental. By all accounts, you don't get as good a standard of service on CO across the pond as you do on DL, but CO are better within the US. So all in all, you should be OK.

I personally wouldn't be booking through AMEX, as they have proved uneconomic & unresponsive for our purposes and we now book our own travel individually. If this is for corporate reasons and your firm happens to have bases in dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; Kongsberg,Backerud,Norway and Singapore, then we do it all individually now now in the Engineering department and the others are currently following suit.

Hope this helps.