Permanent Reduction of LCY-JFK from 31 Oct 2016 : BA3&4 cancelled.
Aug 31, 2016, 1:29 pm
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Perhaps as an addition to the existing flights for the more discerning Yorkshire folk, although since we already have Club Yorkshire I don't know what the A318 J product would be called!
Aug 31, 2016, 1:34 pm
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I would prefer Club Boycott. It would provide excellent competition to Yorkshire Airlines' "Alan Bennett" Class, with a similar number of non-stop destinations.
Last edited by kanderson1965; Aug 31, 2016 at 1:39 pm
Aug 31, 2016, 3:15 pm
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I wonder if this is just the start of BA perhaps expanding more LH routes out of LCY. Odyssey Airlines is a UK based startup airline which is set to launch operations from London City Airport in 2017.
www.flyody.com
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Aug 31, 2016, 3:18 pm
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I wonder if this is just the start of BA perhaps expanding more LH routes out of LCY. Odyssey Airlines is a UK based startup airline which is set to launch operations from London City Airport in 2017.
www.flyody.com
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Aug 31, 2016, 3:27 pm
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What makes you so sure? The have a strong board and are claiming an "all-new interior configuration, windows that are 40% larger than other aircraft, the longest fully flat beds in the commercial market, and many other features that we can’t wait to tell you about!"
Aug 31, 2016, 3:32 pm
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Aug 31, 2016, 3:35 pm
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Interesting the comment regarding the window size claim, similar marketing ploy to the DH Comet.
Aug 31, 2016, 3:47 pm
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I'm really surprised. This would be an easy route for BA to make work if they only understood how travel policies work.
Add £600 to each fare and still call it J
Give 210 TPs
Up the on-board treatment to F.
Provide cars in London and NYC
Add £600 to each fare and still call it J
Give 210 TPs
Up the on-board treatment to F.
Provide cars in London and NYC
Aug 31, 2016, 4:13 pm
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Amadeus Timetable for Northern Summer 2017 is now showing as:
A few days ago it showed the 003 on Fridays - I've been checking as I'm planning a CWLCY flight next August.
Code:
TN26MARLCYJFK/ABA ** AMADEUS TIMETABLE - TN ** JFK JOHN F KENNEDY.USNY 26MAR17 02APR17 1 BA 001 1234 LCY JFK 7 0945 1355 1 27MAR17 26OCT17 318 9:10 2 BA 001 5 LCY JFK 7 1245 1700 1 31MAR17 28JUL17318 9:15 3 BA 001 7 LCY JFK 7 1320 1735 1 26MAR17 22OCT17 318 9:15
Because I have been planning a trip on CWLCY for years, ever since it started. (I know there are better uses of Avios, but I just liked the idea of flying equipment I'd never been on/a small plane over the Atlantic.) I have saved the Avios, got the 2-4-1, and most importantly got the wife to humour me that it should be part of our 10th wedding anniversary weekend away next August. I planned three free nights in Hiltons (1 from points, two from Hilton credit cards we were going to take out next spring) so it needed to be over a weekend, and for various reasons departing on a Friday and flying back Monday night was ideal.
And so I log on to ask whether the best way to book an open jaw 2-4-1 is to bag the outbound when it's released and then phone to sort out the return when it is available, and also whether this also applies to a trip which is outbound LCY-JFK / inbound JFK-LHR-MAN, and how to avoid being charged a change fee by the agent.
And the top post on the forum is this. And I click through thinking "Phew, well that's okay because I wanted to go on BA1" - and then discover there's no flights at all on Fridays next August.
Last edited by JimboandtheJetset; Aug 31, 2016 at 4:32 pm
Aug 31, 2016, 4:17 pm
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It's Saturday that's not got a flight. LCY is closed on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings.
Aug 31, 2016, 4:20 pm
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QR ditched their all-J A320 aircraft on LHR-DOH earlier this year.
If you have an LHR slot, it makes no sense to use it for a sub-50 seater aircraft (unless you are KL or AZ of course).