Originally Posted by
zrs70
I don't think UA ever took over the transatlantic PA routes. Those went to Dl, right?
DL took over all of the PA TATL routes, with the exception of those to the PA hubs at LHR and FRA, which went to UA.
Originally Posted by
zrs70
Whoops, fat fingers and edited US to UA! I don't recall UA taking that route right away. After all, PA had abandoned the route years earlier.
That is correct, to my memory. PA certainly did fly the route at one time (for example, in the very early 747-100 days in the early '70s, BOS was a stop on PA107 to IAD). But by the 1980s, the primary way to fly PA to Europe from BOS was through the JFK "Worldport."
Originally Posted by
Passmethesickbag
Must have been longer than that - I know for a fact that my dad flew LHR-BOS on UA the day before he died, and that was in 1993. His travel diary also mentions the unpleasant and spiteful FAs, so I'm sure this was all part and parcel of the PA routes UA bought in 1990.
Hmm, that surprises me. Are you sure he didn't fly to BOS through IAD, EWR, or JFK, and are you sure he was on UA? I was flying BOS to the UK at least twice a year throughout the '90s, and my first record of taking the UA998 nonstop was September 1999. Before that, it was all east coast connections on UA.