hwi1s0n
May 29, 03, 2:04 pm
Do US or partner have a daytime flight to LON? Can't find any from East Coast.
TIA,
Harry
TIA,
Harry
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PHL
May 29, 03, 2:18 pm
United is a USAirways partner and has a morning flight from Dulles, arriving London around 10pm.
(Edited to remove Chicago reference)
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Skylink USA
May 29, 03, 2:33 pm
The above post is correct. In case you don't mind not earning miles on another airline, you may consider British Airways, Virgin, American, and, unless they cut the flight, Air Canada. They fly daytime flights to the UK. Surprisingly, there aren't daytime flights to other cities, not even Paris or Amsterdam (unless you count AF Concorde which might be ending tomorrow if it hasn't already)
Randeman
May 29, 03, 2:33 pm
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PHL:
United is a USAirways partner and has morning flights from both Washington Dulles and Chicago. They arrive in London around 10pm.
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Um...I see United's flight 922 from Dulles to Heathrow as a daytime flight, but I don't see anything from O'Hare...?
United is a USAirways partner and has morning flights from both Washington Dulles and Chicago. They arrive in London around 10pm.
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Um...I see United's flight 922 from Dulles to Heathrow as a daytime flight, but I don't see anything from O'Hare...?
PHL
May 29, 03, 3:01 pm
Oooops. I stand corrected.
Flight 922 leaves ORD at 6am and goes to IAD, where it has about a 1 hour layover before it heads to LHR.
I'll correct my original post.
On that topic - it seems daytime flights from the East to London are a rarety. This is likely because the utilizaion of the aircraft would drop.
By running evening departures from the US, they can turn the plane around several hours later for a return leg and do it all over again.
By running morning departures from the US, the plane would arrive London at 9-10pm, but then have to sit all night until the next morning for a return flight home (since nobody wants to leave London at midnight and get home at 3am). That 10-12 hour idle time is lost revenue opportunity.
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Flight 922 leaves ORD at 6am and goes to IAD, where it has about a 1 hour layover before it heads to LHR.
I'll correct my original post.
On that topic - it seems daytime flights from the East to London are a rarety. This is likely because the utilizaion of the aircraft would drop.
By running evening departures from the US, they can turn the plane around several hours later for a return leg and do it all over again.
By running morning departures from the US, the plane would arrive London at 9-10pm, but then have to sit all night until the next morning for a return flight home (since nobody wants to leave London at midnight and get home at 3am). That 10-12 hour idle time is lost revenue opportunity.
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Randeman
May 29, 03, 3:14 pm
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PHL:
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On that topic - it seems daytime flights from the East to London are a rarety. This is likely because the utilizaion of the aircraft would drop.
By running morning departures from the US, the plane would arrive London at 9-10pm, but then have to sit all night until the next morning for a return flight home (since nobody wants to leave London at midnight and get home at 3am). That 10-12 hour idle time is lost revenue opportunity.
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Exactly! Although, with the open skies agreements, like the one the US has with Germany, a US carrier could technically operate a daytime flight from the US to Frankfurt, and then continue on to, say, Tel Aviv as an overnight flight to get a bit more usage out of the equipment. Reverse the schedule the next day.
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On that topic - it seems daytime flights from the East to London are a rarety. This is likely because the utilizaion of the aircraft would drop.
By running morning departures from the US, the plane would arrive London at 9-10pm, but then have to sit all night until the next morning for a return flight home (since nobody wants to leave London at midnight and get home at 3am). That 10-12 hour idle time is lost revenue opportunity.
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Exactly! Although, with the open skies agreements, like the one the US has with Germany, a US carrier could technically operate a daytime flight from the US to Frankfurt, and then continue on to, say, Tel Aviv as an overnight flight to get a bit more usage out of the equipment. Reverse the schedule the next day.