sunrisegirl

My apologies but I'm afraid I have no idea. I'm not sure if we have that information to be honest.

But thanks for your loyal support of LGW, much appreciated.

cornishsimon

Fair play SRG, just a guess but a DFW and maybe a LAX would pretty much cover all the bases for onward connections within the US but hey ho !

cs

hammythehammer

I think the major problem is slot allocation in NY. They'd have to find a pair from somewhere.

A P Yu

Perhaps AA could redeploy the 757 they are taking off the JFK MAN service and point it at LGW? Something would be better than nothing!

Globaliser

Maybe DFW and ORD.

JFK's been tried fairly recently, but IIRC not proved to be a great success.

PUCCI GALORE

AA seem to be sending 757s everywhere these days - and I gather from the AA Forum that there is a huge problem with Captains retiring leaving gaps in the service that are causing all sorts of cancellations.

Personally I would wish that the 757 that they used for ORY - IAD become LGW - EWR - there are more than enough services to JFK. Perfect opportunity for OpenSkies I would have thought.

A P Yu

An Openskies 757 would be adorable - particularly if the fares matched the Openskies ones too - bring it on.

Washington DC

I suppose it all depends on how many people would fly out of LGW given the choice... how many flights have you taken this year from LHR, and how many from LGW?

BlackBerryAddict

BA have little interest in replacing their own traffic from LHR to LGW.

Wouldn't the question from their point of view be - how many flights have you taken with other airlines (from LGW or LHR) that you would have taken with BA had the LGW-DFW/ORD/NYC/MIA/LAX flight existed?

cornishsimon

Exactly, my last gatters flight this year was to JER which isn't served from LHR, have also done AMS as its easier for me, from LHR iv done SFO and in two weeks JFK but only as those aren't available from LGW.

cs

Athlete95

If we had a choice of LGW or LHR we would choose LGW just because of connection ease from JER and now the new BA area and fast track are set up we like LGW even more. All they need to do is sort the lounge out... it's good, but not close to the LHR offering. The BA ground staff at LGW are wonderful too! ^ Shame I can't say that about some of the CC I have had on recent flights though..

1A-Asleep

Sorry but I can't see a return to traditional 'business' type routes from LGW. The only future expansion I can see down there is on bucket and spade type routes, maybe Vegas.

NYC has been tried before and it failed, when I travel to JFK (which isn't that often, ORD is more my route) my airline of choice is always BA/AA, I am booked on fully flex tickets so say a meeting ends early/late its easy to switch onto a later/earlier flight. A once daily service to LGW would be useless to me, despite living in Surrey.

For me LGW has become a pretty pointless airport in terms of BA for anything apart from holidays. Where I could once rely on flexible timetables they are now anything but, so I either use other other airlines or LHR.

I don't really understand people basing their choice of airports on the staff there. I check in online/smartphone, don't usually have a checked bag, go thru security, into the lounge and onto the plane, my dealings with staff are kept to a minimum.

Washington DC

Absolutely, which is why I was interested in finding out how many flights Cornish Simon has taken this year from Gatwick (and any other alternate airports) to establish "the size of the prize" if BA put additional destination on in Gatwick.

So, Heathrow flights year to date: 1 - what about Gatwick, and then all others?

It's a game for all by the way, not just Cornish Simon!!! (but he would be a great example as someone who would put all traffic through Gatwick if possible, hence the question being directed at him initially!)

cornishsimon

I'm a pointless prize but as I already said iv done AMS and JER this year from gatwick, but in my defense iv been sick for the last 3 months and been off work so no holidays for me in that time.

My desire for a better network for BA at gatwick stems from being able to connect on BE on a BA codeshare and thru ticket from NQY.

Which when you compare travel time by train and hex from cornwall to get to LHR you will see my point, I'll be honest, of BA served NQY ex LHR I wouldn't rave about gatwick anywhere near as much, but as they dont and as getting to heathrow is such a PITA from this part of the country I think I'll continue to wish for better routes from gatwick

cs

747_not_777

Is it fair to say it tried and failed? Wasnt the recent LGW - JFK routing more a temporary measure from the start to keep a landing slot for when the LCY service was ready to launch (or something along those lines?).