SFO777

I find that hard to believe as well. In fact, that's total nonsense. Maybe if it was La Première or even Lufthansa First, but 24 hours on BA? Haha. Sure.

fotographer

I usually book my trips to India from the states on BA , get the aarp discount , and BA gives me better EQD than booking on AA with BA as a code share

1Aturnleft

I can well believe it. We flyertalkers are a strange phenomenon afterall!

KSVVZ2015

I agree. Plus the schedule is not optimized for this right? Many of the BA SA departures are evening...

golfmad

I live near Tampa and pre-Covid would make 6 or 7 trips to the UK each year and 2 trips to India usually off the back of my time in the UK. Pricing out of NYC or BOS usually presented the best pricing options to LHR and beyond but I would use Matrix ITA to search for most possibilities. I would rarely (almost never) take the TPA-LGW flight as I usually needed to connect in LHR and didn't like the bus sector. When combined with the AARP and Chase 10 discounts it was normally possible to find a reasonable fare. I fly mainly AA in the USA but am now starting to fly AS too with the direct flights they have from Tampa to the west coast USA. I sometimes use QR if going direct to India or Asia. All in all there's usually quite agreeable oneworld options to most places.

Geordie405

For me, it's usually BA direct from LAS to LHR and onwards to NCL. There are no other options (aside from Virgin Atlantic to LGW or MAN or DL / KLM via AMS) so I am pretty much tied to BA / AA when it comes to any transatlantic flying.

I have to be honest though and say that I find ex-US pricing to be extortionate. Pre-COVID I had all my flights booked as being ex-UK having made a single US - UK booking using Avios to get me back to the UK. Booking from the UK was significantly less expensive and the taxes, fees and charges associated with upgrading using Avios were way less.

For any TPAC flights I would never consider BA via LHR. I would book AA / CX as appropriate.

lsquare

It's actually a great idea to use my Avios to book a one-way to the UK and make this work.

Geordie405

It does work quite well but you need to plan things quite carefully. From a practical point of view you end up having the "return" potion of your booking (i.e. US to UK) as really being the outward portion of your next US - UK trip. This tends to be fine in "normal" circumstances but, with COVID, we had a lot of linked trips where we were waiting for BA to cancel and then we had a domino effect where we could then go ahead and cancel multiple bookings.

Based on the current climate I doubt I'll be doing that again anytime soon though. I have no BA flights booked at the present time and will only book once the UK puts the US on the "Green" list meaning no self-quarantine. Looking at prices, however, I think my next trip will be in PE and not Business.

JAXBA

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One big flow I’ve never understood is NE US to South America via London. NYC-LON-Brazil is one of the bigger longhaul connecting flows.

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I'd be interested in knowing that too. I have never heard of anyone doing that.

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Originally Posted by SFO777

I find that hard to believe as well. In fact, that's total nonsense. Maybe if it was La Première or even Lufthansa First, but 24 hours on BA? Haha. Sure.

I’d be that one weirdo who did it once... JFK-ORY-LHR-SAO using OpenSkies Biz Bed, Club Europe & Club World. Was great fun!

SKRan

It’ll be quite tough to compete with Cathay, ANA, EVA or Singapore on transpacific routes.

UA-NH / DL-KE JVs takes a lot of traffic. Large corporates, who pays a lot for a lot of premium seats, are usually tied in contract.