Originally Posted by
blug
I always thought it was an odd route. JFK to nowhere else, no ORD, IAH, but IAD.
It made sense pre-merger to help get passengers to the long-haul flights ex-IAD. Now it makes a lot less sense. Doubly so with the draw-down of smaller regional flights.
Originally Posted by
meFIRST
That said, the JFK-IAD flight served a good alternative to LGA for people that were flying out of Dulles to International destinations not served by EWR. There are a few, mostly in the middle east. Flying out JFK opened up the possibility of credible backup plans, via LH and LX if UA caved. All the UA departures to Europe leaves at roughly the same time, only LH and LX at JFK has really late flights, that leave at 10-11PM. There are no intl flights out of LGA to Europe.
The people at route planning i suppose didn't bother to consider that.
If you're connecting onward past IAD then you need to be on the 14:25 ex-JFK, not the 19:30. The similarly timed LGA flight still gives time to get to JFK for either the early or the late Europe departures if needed.
Originally Posted by
yevlesh2
This really is annoying.... A number of quality Star Alliance partners fly from JFK but not from IAD (SQ, Swiss, Asiana, EVA ... )- and now connecting to those flights would require a completely separate ticket on another carrier.
Most of those offer interline connections on other partners. You can do it on a single ticket, just not on UA+partner.