BA Houston - Detroit on 12/6
 

I was changing planes in Detroit (NW Airlines) on Wednesday 6 December - looked on the monitor for my flight gate - and saw a NW departure to Houston, a CO departure to Houston, and was surprised to see a BA departure to Houston.

It was between 2 and 3 in the afternoon.

I am presuming this was a flight from Britain to Houston that made a brief detour to Detroit??

Anybody know? I started to see if they would let me switch airlines for the rest of my journey!

You presume wrong :) LHR-DTW-IAH on a 767 is what used to be the LHR-ORD-IAH scheduled 777 service to get around Bermuda II which prevents BA flying LHR-IAH direct. This is in addition to their double daily LGW-IAH services.

Hi,

And unfortunately , no, you cannot book BA DTW-IAH alone ( you need to be continuing from LHR) as non us airlines are not allowed to sell tickets wholly within the US unless part of the intl journey.

Regards

Thanks for the timely response and info!

(I had actually looked on the BA timetable but only checked LGW and not LHR.)

Thanks again!