Anyone have insight as to how LHR-PDX has been performing, and why they shifted to using the 787 this summer over the 772 as was used Summer 2023? Not loads related but frame related. The 781's continue to experience delivery delays impacting S24 fleet planning, and with the last 3 77W's finally go...
Jump to postThe confusion may be that IAG is registered as a company in Spain How did they deal with the BA black hole pensions issue again? Substantial contributions were required to be made by the UK pensions regulator. The deficit is now in "normal" range and very manageable. IAG is a dual listed,...
Jump to postIt s a combination of factors; There are delays to longhaul frame deliveries and route expansion/reinstatement. So there are some short haul frequencies slot sitting Demand is particularly strong intra europe There are 33 320/321 NEO orders still to be delivered There are a number of 319 and 320 CEO...
Jump to postAnd to be clear 15 years ago some european legacies were struggling more than others. Some were doing OK but not as well as they were. Others didnt survive or rather didnt survive to 15 years ago. With deregulation and EU open skies, they mostly went through painful periods of adapting their own cos...
Jump to postBA celebrated 50 years, the older celebration was about what are essentially defunct legacy brands. TBF the 50th anniversary has got press coverage here in the UK but BA have not made a big deal about it. Personally I think both need to be celebrated and present opportunities for promotion. To be c...
Jump to postIt will require a visa waiver similar to what is currently needed to fly to US from UK/EU. A one off fee of around €9 for three years validity. Hardly going to stop people travelling. It won’t stop people travelling but it’ll stop people travelling from the EU to the Americas via Brexitland for sur...
Jump to postI can't understand the hype Personally I'm with you. I suppose it's the perceived value for money when compared to the legacy US/EU carriers. Imagine what the same airlines could do if they pumped their own oil out the ground and paid significantly below market rate for their staff too. Except….the...
Jump to postCare is needed with closer working relationships with ME3. They can attract a lot of transfer traffic away from LHR/AMS/CDG and the like. BA now seem to almost actively push connections over DOH to go east rather than expand their own network eastwards. Its commercially lucrative of course given the...
Jump to postIt's very nice to see the BA flight continuing to perform so well. Other carriers are noticing and someone will bite sooner rather than later. I do wonder what the exact configuration will be for the 772 coming in given there are 4 options with 2 having first class. I suspect it will chop and chang...
Jump to postIt's very nice to see the BA flight continuing to perform so well. Other carriers are noticing and someone will bite sooner rather than later. I do wonder what the exact configuration will be for the 772 coming in given there are 4 options with 2 having first class. I suspect it will chop and chang...
Jump to postin SS24 the -10 operates
Seattle
Chicago (twice daily)
Newark (twice daily)
Boston (daily)
Philadelphia
Baltimore
kuwait
bridgetown
Portland (TBC)
Legacies are making passengers pay for all the extras on international travel. Especially British airways. Not sure that is true at all other than shorthaul food in economy. And yes they do offer an economy "light" ticket with no checked baggage but that is not the standard economy fare c...
Jump to postLet’s do some cataloguing here and compare how many US destinations BA serves vs. non-US destinations. Everybody makes it seem like BA is just becoming an Aer Lingus x2 or an arm of AA. So let’s set things straight: BA Non-US Long Haul YYZ (x2), YVR (x2), YUL, MEX, BDA, ANU, EZE, NAS, CUN, AUA, GEO...
Jump to postBeing a little dramatic a bit aren’t you? LH left but still has Discover on the route so that’s a wash. Edelweiss left so I’ll give you that one, but they got Norse in return so there’s another wash. The Virgin “decline” has nothing to do with MCO itself. So sure, down a bit on cities served, but t...
Jump to postIn Europe, airlines do not FUND the upgrade or building of airport terminals, so you may be referring to ROUTE INVESTMENTS, which is something entirely different. At Munich airport, Lufthansa is owning 40 percent of terminal 2. https://www.munich-airport.com/terminal-2-gesellschaft-4047628 At Breme...
Jump to postWell the 777's will be knocking on 30 years if passed from LHR to LGW, and the 787 and arguably 789 are too small in current configurations. The 77W might be too much plane for LGW. So I actually think given the modest size of the LGW fleet it just might have to get new frames or, more likely, rela...
Jump to postIAG will need to factor in the same "diversion risk" as AF/KLM. Over the next 25 years anywhere long haul east or south of LHR could suffer restrictions on airspace access for political or military reasons, in contrast to routings west of LHR. I think that points to 789 or 359/10 orders, ...
Jump to post[/quote] BA has usually always tended to hand down their "rust buckets" down to Gatwick from Heathrow when they get shiny new toys to fly with.[/quote] Well the 777's will be knocking on 30 years if passed from LHR to LGW, and the 787 and arguably 789 are too small in current configuration...
Jump to post"When you look at the remedy slots for BA at Heathrow, I don’t think the use of remedy slots has had any significant impact on “maintaining” competition and prices for consumers - although happy to be corrected on that. What we have seen is a number of airlines trying and failing (for example V...
Jump to posta320flyer wrote:BA has increased CVG-LHR to 6x/week effective March 31, 2024. Pretty exciting times!
Surprised there’s been no announcements for either of these changes.
G-ZBKA Flight Activity History …. this flight returned to HKG 15 September with flap issue….. it still appears AOG. Any updates? Looks like it's due back into Heathrow tomorrow morning. Hearing a rumour that one of the two LHR-DOH routes that QR has asked BA to fly may include a tag on to MEL. I th...
Jump to postAnd yet there have been many many new entrants at LHR since COVID. It can be done
Jump to postThe spreadsheet contains information on the passengers, seats, and load factors for all 26 BA US Destinations through May 2023. In May, MSY had the 21st highest load factor at 84.8%. This placed the market between ORD and TPA. MSY ranked 26th for passengers flown and seats flown. Load factors are n...
Jump to postCome to think of it, is First dying on BA overall? I’ve noticed a lot of former 744 routes now using aircraft without F, like YYZ, PHX, LAS, HKG, etc. etc. Could we potentially see F removed from future A/C orders? No, the CEO is committed to an improved F as a product on routes where it has demand...
Jump to postThat's a lot of volume removed from MIA/LHR unless BA pick up a third daily or possibly go double daily A380?
Jump to postLots of OW options from DOH now with AA ... AA flies to DOH from JFK and they are in One World Not for much longer - AA is pulling out of DOH from March 2024. I wonder if this is because of negative feedback from QR customers ending up with AA's (vastly inferior) product. https://www.aeroroutes.com...
Jump to postSupposedly BA also leaned hard on American because they desperately needed the transfer traffic to continue to be able to keep running a widebody (I think it was a 744 at the time) on the route against stiff competition from EasyJet. Well, that's no longer a consideration, since not only has BA lon...
Jump to postikolkyo wrote:BA has exercised options for 6 more 787-10s. https://twitter.com/airinsight/status/1 ... g2vahcMX-Q
Nobody wants to believe me that this route is anything but a goldmine, but it's simply not because there's too many airlines and too much competition. Declining business travel has to be having a very negative effect on this important business sector, and Boston-London is so short that under the po...
Jump to postOn what basis would they "lose" slots ? I thought 'use it or lose it' was paused but even if not, shouldn't VN either be using them or selling them like any other rational airline ? They’re “using” them right now. I don’t understand why they’re losing them if that is the case. But it was ...
Jump to postIt is the extreme shortage of long haul frames. There is a rolling program of (near) weekly cancellation blocks on a number of routes, including PHX, PHL, BNA and others. Through June and into early July one route will be blocked out for a week. Extreme but necessary.
Jump to postI’m flying out of LGW in early August to Vancouver. The original 777 seat map had the old club world seats but now it appears to have changed to the new Club Suite. Are they starting refurbishment of the Gatwick 777 fleet? It was my understanding that they were not going to do this. No, just a subs...
Jump to postPosting a separate thread about this weekend's AA long haul news. -One would think SEA-LHR would do well given AS and BA feed the flight. https://thepointsguy.com/news/american-long-haul-routes-winter-2023/ SEA LHR by AA was always a mystery. BA, DL and AA on the same sector. I think 3 is a crowd o...
Jump to postIn Amadeus, which BA uses as its PSS so this is accurate...it only shows "777" as equip. type but the config. shows J48/W40/M184 so that tells you it's a 772. Surprising to me. As to AF coming to PHX...maybe they've seen how well DE has done and that's their inspiration; plus BA's long-te...
Jump to postLON- HNL is only a few miles more than as BA's LHR - SCL flight. So no issues there. I'm sure a good % of passengers will be connecting from Europe, paying top $ to fly premium. Honeymooners too. I think BA should give it a go, max 3 a week. London-Seychelles is about 5 hours less flying time than ...
Jump to postAmerican living in the UK. From discussions over the years, I have found Hawaii has a good deal of cache among older Brits and they may be intrigued. I've heard many say they've long dreamed of it. That said, salaries here are too low (the UK would be the second-poorest state in the Union were it t...
Jump to postAll quiet on the BA frames front! There are still 10 due and I had thought 3 were built awaiting engines? But news may have moved on
Jump to postUK and US now also in a truce on this matter
Jump to postWell if we want to add to the mix: flying via any of these "middle of nowhere" hubs making 2 flights rather than 1 is surely a major pollution factor. If AAB is so concerned about the environment, he should shrink QR back to O&D traffic.
Jump to postAll this Brexit nonsense again. Cant really see much changing at all.
Jump to postIf I was In charge of BAA, I would restrict landing slots to airlines like EK and even BA ngl. It is time the owner of the airport actually stood up for themselves. Airlines you don't like = don't let them land. Trumpian, yes, but it works. Until they pay up more Wonga. That's not how it works in t...
Jump to postWas this a bad deal now that Flybe has filed for bankruptcy and their slots will come back to the market? Could water down the price a bit. Those slots likely revert back to BA as they are remedy slots from the BA BD deal and I dont think anyone has yet operated them for sufficient time to keep them
Jump to postjust a crazy thought. Indeed, so let's leave it at that. With British Airways canceling all flights to China for the time being , any chance some of these planes can be put to use serving NOLA? They don't even have them cancelled for a rolling 60days yet. Other than a 1off type operation, it's doub...
Jump to postSomewhere someone posts about AA changing their BC seats to what British has in BC/club. Ugg!! I felt sorry for those people in the upper deck and Lower 747-400 refurbished. AA’s BC seats on 777-220 and300 were more like BA’s FC on the 747-400 . Must say the scons lighting was quiet nice.. very war...
Jump to postI believe BA reuse for flights to the same geographic region. So the examples given above typically recycle 1 Australasian destination for another. Rather than say to USA.(there may be exceptions but not the norm), BA flights numbering is pretty structured in this way
Jump to postThe reality is, unless there is a route to be abandoned, the continuing 787 issues and the need to refit the new club suite product on a sensible program does limit frames for the next 24 months (unless they slow the refit down to a meaningless rate and extend the completion to beyond 2025!!) There ...
Jump to postI think the real reason is only a jumbo can offer 100 (14F and 86J) premium class seats from Silicon Valley to London every night. Voluminous cargo capacity won’t hurt. Go BA! As impressive as 100 premium seats look like one have to keep in mind BA F and J products on the 744 are one of the most ou...
Jump to postWorld's busiest --> Very difficult Near future --> No Realistic: - Busiest in Europe - 100m pax in 2030 --> Top 5 worldwide (with ATL, DXB, PVG, PEK/PDX) That's probably closer to the mark. 2 factors I believe will prohibit the title of "busiest": (1) The scale of the Chinese domestic mar...
Jump to postHowever, I refuse to admit that it is a crazy idea to propose to make an agreement between some countries sharing the same language, the same parliament system, the same Head of the State, the same religion (for most of them) and a similar history. You don't have much concept of what the British Co...
Jump to postBA to increase LHR-MSY from 5x to 6x weekly from 29th March. Thanks to @SeanM1997 for the info. Link: https://twitter.com/SeanM1997/status/1192102328855355393?s=19 I love to see people using my tweets. Always available on DM for any questions :) 6x weekly on B787-8 (daily except Sunday). British Ai...
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