Originally Posted by
the-dude
I also like flights from SD that arrive in europe mid-day which makes hotel check in easy and allows you to get a nice night out on your first night.
For long flights, I like either a day time flight or an overnight that is long enough to allow for sleep and leaves late enough to make it easier to get to sleep.
Flying U.S. to Europe on AA/BA, almost everything is an overnight, and most are way too short for sleep; this leaves pretty much LAX or now SAN as the longest and a not-preferable-but-acceptable evening departure (for an upcoming trip, 8 PM from SAN or 7:50 PM from LAX).
Originally Posted by
J-Class
You have to love AA F a lot to choose to fly SAN-LAX-LHR over the nonstop - it adds so much time, and the grimness of LAX to the trip.
I used to fly LHR-LAX-SAN every few months. It took around 16 hours door-to-door and was pretty tiring; the LAX immigration and transfer being the worst part!
I like flying in F a lot more than J! Saving the much higher BA fuel fine is also nice. I've never flown in to SAN internationally, so I can't compare immigration there and LAX, but at least on the outbound, flying via LAX is more hassle, but not that much. There's also the FL in LAX.
I'm much more likely to consider the LHR-SAN return flight, since it avoids an extra security screening in LAX, not to mention the let-down in going from a long-haul international to an RJ.
Originally Posted by
DWFI
I would make sure to note this particular clause.
A Gold member flying in Club would expect to earn 250% of the miles flown on a routine basis, as a 50% cabin bonus and 100% tier bonus. (about 13700 miles each way). One would think that the promotion would yield a total of 27400 miles each way. But NO! It's only the base 5485 miles that are doubled, so in that case you'd earn just 19200 each way).
Isn't this usually the case? I can't recall a double miles route promotion that doubled anything more than the base miles.
