Originally Posted by
bocastephen
I strongly disagree with this. No one in their right mind is going to spend 5hrs flying from LA to EWR, then layover a few hours, then EWR another 8-12hrs to Europe and sit in immigration at their arrival point when they can go LA-FRA in 12-14 hrs, clear Euro zone immigration, go to the lounge to shower and have breakfast and then take a short 1hr full-service hop to their final destination and walk right out the front door as a domestic arrival.
Except as I mentioned earlier in this thread looking at something (that I would personally be doing) SFO-FRA-TXL and SFO-EWR-TXL would both take about 15.5 hours total listed travel time and in J flying through EWR was over well over $1100 cheaper than flying to Europe first...and now it can be done in all lie flat instead of the recliner. And I'll be at my destination hours earlier.
$5,148 (P)
ex SFO 8:00am in EWR 4:15pm
ex EWR 6:20pm in TXL 8:05am +1
15:5mn travel
$6,225 (P)
ex SFO 1:50pm in FRA 9:45am +1
ex FRA 12:45pm in TXL 1:55pm
15:5mn travel
(option for a 1h cnx in FRA to 13:5mn total)
So maybe I'm not in my right mind especially when clearing immigration at some of the smaller destination cities is no problem at all.