BA cancellations LHR-SAN Nov 25-29, 2019
Jul 15, 2019, 1:33 pm
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BA cancellations LHR-SAN Nov 25-29, 2019
BA has cancelled all direct flights between LHR & SAN on five consecutive days, Nov 25-29, 2019. Does anyone know the reason, please? Neither the YouFirst nor Gold lines could give an explanation.
Jul 15, 2019, 2:57 pm
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Thanksgiving wouldn't account for cancelling five consecutive days of the ONLY daily direct flight Heathrow to San Diego. At the very least they would have kept one every other day. As it is, traffic has been shunted to the day before this cancellation period (Nov 24) or the day after (Nov 30), and premium passengers have been squashed into what availability is left. In our case this meant being shunted out of our preferred seats (1A/K) and put in two random seats at the back of F, not even together although we're on the same PNR and are both Gold.
Jul 15, 2019, 3:32 pm
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There’s plenty of other F reroutes to west coast. Did you explore all options before making choice? Flexibility is normally excellent in these situations - I would’ve gone through LAX on an A380
Jul 15, 2019, 3:45 pm
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Thanksgiving is Thurs 28th this year. Hope there are no changes to direct flights earlier in Nov when we are travelling. Already changed to mid J from high J and T5 to T3
Jul 15, 2019, 4:01 pm
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I agree that the A380 would always be my preferred aircraft; however, going through LAX entails, not only dealing with LAX (!) rather than SAN immigration which is a breeze, but taking a puddle jumper down to San Diego, which in turn means having to transfer to the old commuter terminal via bus adding three hours or more to the total travel time since the flights are less frequent than they used to be when Skywest were responsible for AA Eagle flights.
Jul 15, 2019, 4:10 pm
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I agree that the A380 would always be my preferred aircraft; however, going through LAX entails, not only dealing with LAX (!) rather than SAN immigration which is a breeze, but taking a puddle jumper down to San Diego, which in turn means having to transfer to the old commuter terminal via bus adding three hours or more to the total travel time since the flights are less frequent than they used to be when Skywest were responsible for AA Eagle flights.
PHX might be a possible alternative ( easy immigration) but switches from a 744 to a 787-9 at the start of the winter timetable.
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Jul 15, 2019, 4:25 pm
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Thanksgiving wouldn't account for cancelling five consecutive days of the ONLY daily direct flight Heathrow to San Diego. At the very least they would have kept one every other day. As it is, traffic has been shunted to the day before this cancellation period (Nov 24) or the day after (Nov 30), and premium passengers have been squashed into what availability is left. In our case this meant being shunted out of our preferred seats (1A/K) and put in two random seats at the back of F, not even together although we're on the same PNR and are both Gold.
BA will no doubt reduce frequency to other US destinations over the same period. They do each year.
Jul 15, 2019, 4:35 pm
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Before the LHR-SAN direct service, I used to do LHR-PHX-SAN a lot. You're right, immigration is easy, particularly with Global Entry, but there's a long walk between terminals and the BA Lounge is horrible (or at least it was five years ago). Is baggage interlining easier now that the old USAirways service has become AA?
Jul 15, 2019, 7:37 pm
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AA has already slashed many flights to Europe during this time, ORD had all flights cancelled to LHR Nov 29th for instance, same for LAX as an example.