<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by BA Premier:
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.)
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It appears to me (anecdotally speaking) that a bunch of those BA flights may be full of govt. employees and govt. contractors (who are flying on govt. rates) related to homeland security contracts (related to passengers and cargo). Cubans in Miami dream of vacations to Spain, much like the Lebanese do of vacations en France. ;-)