Will LON-DTW (Detroit) ever be on the cards?
Jul 18, 2017, 1:33 am
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I can't really see BA serving it, it's a Delta hub and I doubt there's much point-to-point traffic.
Jul 18, 2017, 2:20 am
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BA pulled the route in late 2007 due to the declining automotive industry in Detroit at the time. The subsequent "crisis" was obviously harder still on the Detroit economy.
However, as other posters note, I think BA will have other priorities in the US, rather than a return to DTW.
However, as other posters note, I think BA will have other priorities in the US, rather than a return to DTW.
Jul 18, 2017, 2:23 am
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My next trip is in 3 weeks... it is London to Escanaba, Michigan. The only sensible way to do that trip right now is Delta to DTW then internal to ESC. I would like to have flown with BA to DTW but it is Delta or nothing. So instead, this time, I am flying LHR - ORD with BA and driving the 300 miles to Escanaba... OK in summer but no good in winter with the snow. I'd really like to see LHR - DTW but I understand the arguments why it might not be commercially viable.
Jul 18, 2017, 2:27 am
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My next trip is in 3 weeks... it is London to Escanaba, Michigan. The only sensible way to do that trip right now is Delta to DTW then internal to ESC. I would like to have flown with BA to DTW but it is Delta or nothing. So instead, this time, I am flying LHR - ORD with BA and driving the 300 miles to Escanaba... OK in summer but no good in winter with the snow. I'd really like to see LHR - DTW but I understand the arguments why it might not be commercially viable.
Jul 18, 2017, 2:41 am
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i used to travel regularly (4x p.a.) to DTW. The non-stop routes from LHR were on BA as discussed and NW. DTW was definitely Air-NW with NW controlling most of the airport's facilities one way or the other.
Anybody remember the BA lounge in the former international terminal? If you took the escalator up from check-in, you passed the lounge on the right! It must have been on the mezzanine and not accessible from the escalator. It was barely adequate but superior to LH's F lounge.
In the end, I used BA or AA to ORD, transferring to DTW on AA.
Of course, NW was subsumed into DL.
Anybody remember the BA lounge in the former international terminal? If you took the escalator up from check-in, you passed the lounge on the right! It must have been on the mezzanine and not accessible from the escalator. It was barely adequate but superior to LH's F lounge.
In the end, I used BA or AA to ORD, transferring to DTW on AA.
Of course, NW was subsumed into DL.
Jul 18, 2017, 3:20 am
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My next trip is in 3 weeks... it is London to Escanaba, Michigan. The only sensible way to do that trip right now is Delta to DTW then internal to ESC. I would like to have flown with BA to DTW but it is Delta or nothing. So instead, this time, I am flying LHR - ORD with BA and driving the 300 miles to Escanaba... OK in summer but no good in winter with the snow. I'd really like to see LHR - DTW but I understand the arguments why it might not be commercially viable.
Jul 18, 2017, 9:09 am
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Lufthansa manages a rather successful year-round FRA-DTW flight though. (Despite having no relationship, nor any alliance ties, with DL.) In fact, LH even operates it's own Business and Senator lounges at DTW. Guess those auto industry contracts are quite lucrative!
Jul 18, 2017, 10:09 am
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Not only that, but it's also been seasonally F aircraft. Detroit , as a city, may not be so hot (DTW is not in Detroit), but the auto industry is doing quite well.
Jul 18, 2017, 11:02 am
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