Is British Airways really just London Airways?
Jul 8, 2019, 10:23 am
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Jul 8, 2019, 11:15 am
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Jul 8, 2019, 11:44 am
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They're now doing the same with the PHL flight. Ending the A330 flights after years of service, and replacing with an ancient B767.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were no direct OW flights to the US from MAN this time next year.
Jul 8, 2019, 1:53 pm
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I believe it was seasonal along with JFK. Think the expasion of the Virgin/Delta operation may have seen the off. I understand Singapore Airlines now do MAN - IAH which seems a bit strange....
Jul 8, 2019, 1:56 pm
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AA completely messed up the ORD flight after years of good (I guess profitable) service. Initially downsizing it to a B757 which meant it had to stop and re-fuel if the winds were against it. Then dropping rotations. And finally introducing the B787 that was unbelievably un-reliable. Of course, the high yield passengers had enough of being messed about and went elsewhere, leaving it flying half empty.
They're now doing the same with the PHL flight. Ending the A330 flights after years of service, and replacing with an ancient B767.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were no direct OW flights to the US from MAN this time next year.
They're now doing the same with the PHL flight. Ending the A330 flights after years of service, and replacing with an ancient B767.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were no direct OW flights to the US from MAN this time next year.
Jul 8, 2019, 2:26 pm
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Totally London airways and they even seem to be cutting back the number of shuttle services, making you pay the tier points the MAN/LHR sectors on rewards was another regional kick in the teeth.
MAN is my main airport too and the enforced Heathrow connection is a pain, mainly due it to it being at full capacity and unable to mitigate any delay factors. BA does have a couple of year round destinations with Sun Air and then there's the summer Cityfler stuff but other than that it's crap. That said if they did start doing other euro cities I'm not sure I'd fly with them, only benefit is the lounge access, tier points aren't enough to trump a scheduled based alternative and some of the other mainline co's still feed and water you en route (I don't generally fly club on euro short haul, don't find it value for money <3 hrs).
Even long haul now I tend to go from MAN with other OW carriers, AA to ORD (dropped off schedule now) was a 787 and PHL was an A330 (swapped to refurb'd 767 recently sadly) so gave good options direct into US, Finnair have some interesting connections and QR are running 787 and A350 down to Doha which makes heading south a pleasure.
MAN is my main airport too and the enforced Heathrow connection is a pain, mainly due it to it being at full capacity and unable to mitigate any delay factors. BA does have a couple of year round destinations with Sun Air and then there's the summer Cityfler stuff but other than that it's crap. That said if they did start doing other euro cities I'm not sure I'd fly with them, only benefit is the lounge access, tier points aren't enough to trump a scheduled based alternative and some of the other mainline co's still feed and water you en route (I don't generally fly club on euro short haul, don't find it value for money <3 hrs).
Even long haul now I tend to go from MAN with other OW carriers, AA to ORD (dropped off schedule now) was a 787 and PHL was an A330 (swapped to refurb'd 767 recently sadly) so gave good options direct into US, Finnair have some interesting connections and QR are running 787 and A350 down to Doha which makes heading south a pleasure.
BA would have packed services across the pond and into Europe because (and I hear you all) they are still very good at what they do. AC missing a biz op with the new modelling at MAN. A real shame...