Originally Posted by
Ldnn1
Indeed, even if they only booked you into J (rather than F) for the transcon, you'd be far better off both TP-wise and comfort-wise than via ORD. The main negative is the shorter TATL flight time which isn't great for a proper night's sleep, but definitely an option worth considering if BA allow it.
You'd just have to check that they book you into a revenue class for the transcon; in my experience they will.
I don't know what class the re-routed UUA sector would get booked into - if revenue you could end up better off, if Z then you may well have to retroclaim for the underlying I fare credit.
Thanks. My Flights has an I fare for SFO-ORD and “Z (INN…)” for the TATL, so I guess that means First with Avios and an underlying I fare. The flight time between ORD-LHR and JFK-LHR is only 45 minutes according to the schedule, but I don’t know what the realities are like. It’s very different from the West Coast ones, where I would get a full night’s sleep, but seems almost negligible between ORD and JFK.
In terms of timing/product experience, asking for SFO-LHR would be my first choice. But it would leave me a few TPs short, assuming it didn’t book into a revenue class. This is if they’d let me do it anyway.