Originally Posted by Tim330

Hello
In Feb or March I'll need to travel to Houston for a couple of days for a work meeting. I can of course take the direct flight but my employer is flexible and leaves it to me to book. As long as the price is similar it doesn't matter how many stops I make.
I checked and go LHR-Dub-Philidelphia-Houston for same as the direct flight.
Can I do better?
I'm attracted to the benefit of departing from Dublin to speed up the checks on arrival in the USA.
This would be in business class.