Actually, travel across the Atlantic is picking up, as Americans see the U.K. and most of Europe as a safe place to visit and are again beginning to cross the Atlantic in droves, despite the recent USD/EUR and USD/GBP depreciation.
Just look up class of service availability on any CRS to get an idea of the loads on routes from BA's U.S. gateways to London. Most flights from LAX, SFO, SEA, ORD, DFW, ATL, DEN, BOS, JFK, etc. to LHR/LGW have been sold out for the past 2 weeks (MIA-LHR being the only notable exception - I guess Cuban immigrants don't travel to Europe much.)
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by CharlesMD:
This past week I've received about five e-mails from BA marketing about their summer promo, fly NCW, get a great hotel package if you book you airticket with us, summer offer extended, etc... Normally, I'd go out right away and book one of these to LON with my gf. But with the upcoming changes to the NAEC, I've just deleted them and finally blocked BA from my inbox.
This level of marketing seems a bit more than last summer, as least as I remember it. So I've been wondering if BA's been having trouble with their transatlantic loads, and if the changes in the EC program might be affecting this. On a side note, how have Concorde loads been recently?</font>
[This message has been edited by BA Premier (edited 06-13-2003).]