BA to fly from BHX and BRS.
Feb 9, 2017, 6:21 am
#31
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Excellent news! Both BRS and BHX within an hour away... Seems to be weekend only flights from when I looked in May, so makes sense to get to use the E190s, rather than parking them at LCY. Looking forward to trying out!
Feb 9, 2017, 6:25 am
#32
Join Date: Jan 2015
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4 flights to Spain at the weekend is a start, but hopefully there will be more to come.
Feb 9, 2017, 6:32 am
#33
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 1,624
Lets see this for what it is.. a shuffling of aircraft otherwise sat on the ground. Nothing to do with Oneworld/ QR integration at BHX. Its a logistical nightmare I would expect with a high risk of delays. Good luck to the operation but Ill be interested to see if it returns in the same format the following year..
Feb 9, 2017, 7:04 am
#35
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: UK
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Just noticed on the BA flight info, when searching for flights. And BA seem to still be living in the past, BHX no longer has two seperate terminals, they integrated the International Pier and the EuroHub a while ago... I hope it won't cause confusion to some people
Feb 9, 2017, 7:15 am
#36
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Location: somewhere north of London, UK
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Interesting, because the original note says it's on E190s which have far better seat pitch. Also, if BA's check in desks are going to be located in the old T2, it really is a special sort of tensa-barrier hell down there, especially on summer weekends.
Feb 9, 2017, 8:12 am
#39
Join Date: Mar 2005
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I live a bit south of you (M5 jn 13) Heathrow isn't much further away bit more hassle…
Feb 9, 2017, 8:50 am
#41
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Wolverhampton
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BHX has two PP lounges, one of which is the likely status lounge for BA.
QR flights tend to go from the No 1 lounge, nicer food, bar service from a lesser spotted server. Expect to be standing staring into space wasting vital drinking time before your flight.
I tend to prefer the Aspire lounge, which has food from the bin scraping variety but self pour booze to make you at least think you're somewhere else.
There's an Emirates lounge too, never been in it, always find it weird there's always an Emirates lounge, even in places that I really thought Emirates wouldn't fly from, like Gatwick. They definitely fly from BHX though...
QR flights tend to go from the No 1 lounge, nicer food, bar service from a lesser spotted server. Expect to be standing staring into space wasting vital drinking time before your flight.
I tend to prefer the Aspire lounge, which has food from the bin scraping variety but self pour booze to make you at least think you're somewhere else.
There's an Emirates lounge too, never been in it, always find it weird there's always an Emirates lounge, even in places that I really thought Emirates wouldn't fly from, like Gatwick. They definitely fly from BHX though...
Feb 9, 2017, 8:56 am
#42
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Feb 9, 2017, 9:05 am
#44
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