Originally Posted by
hugolover
BArb will be clapping her hands. I’d imagine Helga looks like she fell into a bath of rouge.
LH have screwed up their backdoor hilariously. I heard pax prefer U2 over Helga and EW.
There’s no way they would run a stand-alone LH metal route from TXL to LHR, like they did to CDG, LCY (has come and gone many times!) in the past. The 733 fleet did the EU hops which were all retired. The EW brand and product is crap, I avoid it. And luckily there is always a way I can avoid it.
Years back there were four LH A320s a day operating LHR-TXL. It's a route LH always started from behind on because they were only allowed to operate from TXL after unification and BA or BEA had been there for 40+ years at that point.
What they systematically failed to do was gain codeshares on it from the inbound *A traffic at LHR and so it struggled because TXL is an O & D place only. They also charged more than BA by a significant amount which as the weaker of the two on that particular route was foolish.
It was handed to BD who made a reasonable job of it and when they foolishly handed BD to BA, LH took it over as mainline again and it remained reasonable but was downgraded to 3x daily. It was then part of the wholesale handover to Germanwings and it has gone from bad to worse with them. I tried it a few times but the premium experience isn't and arrival at the D gates at TXL can easily involve a 60 minute wait just to get through immigration.
Anyway now it's gone and so the choice is BA or connect.