IB or LA in business ?
Mar 23, 2005 | 4:58 am
#1
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IB or LA in business ?
DONE5 probably Nov 2005
I have the coupon availability to do either
IB EZE-> MAD direct
LA EZE->SCL->MAD
general reading of various comments indicate this is IB's
flagship route and is their best - but from a relatively low base.
LA is about 1000 miles more
but the connection leaves about 10 hours earlier meing one less evening meal in BA.....
Is the SCL lounge suitable for a 3 hour connection?
Thoughts from people who regularly fly EZE/SCL to MAD?
Thanks
WF
I have the coupon availability to do either
IB EZE-> MAD direct
LA EZE->SCL->MAD
general reading of various comments indicate this is IB's
flagship route and is their best - but from a relatively low base.
LA is about 1000 miles more
but the connection leaves about 10 hours earlier meing one less evening meal in BA.....
Is the SCL lounge suitable for a 3 hour connection?
Thoughts from people who regularly fly EZE/SCL to MAD?
Thanks
WF
Mar 23, 2005 | 7:26 am
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Originally Posted by wandering_fred
...Is the SCL lounge suitable for a 3 hour connection?...
...Thoughts from people who regularly fly EZE/SCL to MAD?...
Mar 23, 2005 | 5:53 pm
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Old IB J is much worse than LA. New IB J was to have been their F replacement and promised to be much better. Reality is yet to be determined, but IB has decided to keep F and not remove it from all planes. Whether this has resulted in a downscaling of the new J is unknown. The seat rollout schedule is very slow, unclear that enough of the fleet is converted by end of 2005 to guarantee all flights EZE-MAD will have the new J. So there is risk in getting the old J (known to be bad) and also risk as to whether the new J will be competitive with LA (I think it will be, but this is IB, so who knows?). They do have a good F service, so the potential is there to do a good, even great, J service.
Mar 25, 2005 | 6:48 am
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Originally Posted by virtualtroy
I'm assuming you've ruled out BA EZE/LHR/MAD - or does it seem like a waste of a segment?
I chose a wrong one
Especially since CAI is the stop after EZE.....
WF