One World PAR-NYC ~$1125 RT
Mar 2, 2020, 9:29 pm
#78
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: SFOSJCOAK
Programs: AA-EXP & 1MM+, AS, MR-LTT, HH Gold
Posts: 7,581
Mar 2, 2020, 9:41 pm
#79
Join Date: May 2017
Location: PRG
Programs: British Airways
Posts: 234
Mar 3, 2020, 3:06 am
#80
Join Date: Mar 2015
Programs: BA GGL
Posts: 2,447
For the same price I found Paris to New Orleans. Route through LHR and you can pick AA via T3 (Cathay) or BA via T5 (First / Concorde, if applicable). There's also the option to connect through Dallas, adding 40TP each way, in addition to offering BA's 787-10 with Club Suites (if you pick the correct flight).
CDG-LHR-DFW-MSY r/t for £894 ($1140) and awarding 440TPs (I don't know EQD/M and all that stuff).
Only tickets through AA. BA charges about 2-3K more for the same.
CDG-LHR-DFW-MSY r/t for £894 ($1140) and awarding 440TPs (I don't know EQD/M and all that stuff).
Only tickets through AA. BA charges about 2-3K more for the same.
Mar 3, 2020, 6:14 am
#81
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: PRG/VIE
Programs: BA SI;KLM SI;AE SI
Posts: 24
For the same price I found Paris to New Orleans. Route through LHR and you can pick AA via T3 (Cathay) or BA via T5 (First / Concorde, if applicable). There's also the option to connect through Dallas, adding 40TP each way, in addition to offering BA's 787-10 with Club Suites (if you pick the correct flight).
CDG-LHR-DFW-MSY r/t for £894 ($1140) and awarding 440TPs (I don't know EQD/M and all that stuff).
Only tickets through AA. BA charges about 2-3K more for the same.
CDG-LHR-DFW-MSY r/t for £894 ($1140) and awarding 440TPs (I don't know EQD/M and all that stuff).
Only tickets through AA. BA charges about 2-3K more for the same.
Mind sharing your matrix result?
Mar 3, 2020, 6:35 am
#82
Join Date: Mar 2015
Programs: BA GGL
Posts: 2,447
Hey mmxbreaks, which flight you see with BA 787 to Dallas? Afaik there are only retrofitted 777s starting FEB20 to Dallas from LHR. Otherwise your routing is very nice and I am considering it srsly, but I would love to try those new 787s.
Mind sharing your matrix result?
Mind sharing your matrix result?
Mar 3, 2020, 11:43 am
#83
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: SAN
Programs: AA Fool's Gold
Posts: 158
Well, out of San Diego, BA mostly flies a somewhat updated 747. That's our only option. To me its just not worth the trouble of flying SAN-DFW to get on an AA 777 or spend the time and hassle to fly out of LAX. Besides, my favorite seats 64A and 64K were available and theres just something that is special to me about those upstairs J seats on a 747. I don't really care about the IFE with I've got 5 windows all to myself to entertain me. 
And I credit to AA but purchase through BA. Better value that way for me.
And I credit to AA but purchase through BA. Better value that way for me.
Mar 3, 2020, 12:30 pm
#84
Join Date: May 2006
Location: SAN
Programs: Lots of faux metal
Posts: 6,425
Well, out of San Diego, BA mostly flies a somewhat updated 747. That's our only option. To me its just not worth the trouble of flying SAN-DFW to get on an AA 777 or spend the time and hassle to fly out of LAX. Besides, my favorite seats 64A and 64K were available and theres just something that is special to me about those upstairs J seats on a 747. I don't really care about the IFE with I've got 5 windows all to myself to entertain me.
And I credit to AA but purchase through BA. Better value that way for me.
And I credit to AA but purchase through BA. Better value that way for me.
But, as long as you are happy that's all that matters.
Mar 3, 2020, 1:02 pm
#85
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Manhattan Beach, California
Programs: BMI Diamond Club Gold forever
Posts: 6,367
Maybe I am stating the obvious, it’s definitely worth looking at the British Airways forum and in particular the thread there about the roll out of the new club suite. I usually avoid BA as much as possible and look for AA metal, but with suite rolling out to my home airport I am psyched to get the quickest routing home. Also worth noting the MAD-LAX routing for west coasters on IB metal is a decent option.
Mar 3, 2020, 3:43 pm
#86
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: LHR
Programs: BAEC GGL & CCR / QF LTG
Posts: 829
That is my intention too (London based) as my positioning flight to CDG will be on a different ticket, so no issue with passing through the same airport twice. Just check the back in to the US when I get my flight to CDG. Is there any issue with this?
Mar 3, 2020, 4:33 pm
#87
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: London
Posts: 17,007
If neither of the above apply and you are a UK resident it should be fine to show the back-to-back CDG-LON ticket. Sometimes this kind of back to back stuff confuses agents but they'll eventually figure out that it's fine. Most of the time they don't even ask.
Mar 3, 2020, 4:43 pm
#88
Join Date: Dec 2019
Posts: 258
If you are an EU citizen or a British citizen flying this year, it should not be a problem.
If neither of the above apply and you are a UK resident it should be fine to show the back-to-back CDG-LON ticket. Sometimes this kind of back to back stuff confuses agents but they'll eventually figure out that it's fine.
If neither of the above apply and you are a UK resident it should be fine to show the back-to-back CDG-LON ticket. Sometimes this kind of back to back stuff confuses agents but they'll eventually figure out that it's fine.
The question is, if you have one ticket LHR-CDG, and a separate ticked CDG-LHR-JFK. Can you, on your first (!) visit to LHR, check in a bag only for the LHR-JFK flight?
Or put differently: If you have a ticket for AAA-BBB-CCC, then after you have flown AAA-BBB, if at BBB you want to check in a bag for the remaining BBB-CCC flight, that's not a problem. But can you do the same before you have flown the AAA-BBB segment? When at this point you're not even "supposed" to be at BBB yet.
edit: I think Jase76 misspelled "bag" as "back". They too want to "check the bag in to the US" when they're at LHR the first time, before flying LHR-CDG and back.
Last edited by mb752; Mar 3, 2020 at 4:45 pm Reason: Added clarification.
Mar 3, 2020, 4:53 pm
#89
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: 79856 Hinterzarten, Germany
Programs: BA GGL, BA GfL, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum
Posts: 188
So far I have done that bag check in the middle of the trip only with AA, and it is never a problem.
They only look that you max. allowance is right.
For oneworld Emerald in this case 2PC+1
I remember in the past on *A
UA,US,LH ... at the end suddenly there were 6PC
They only look that you max. allowance is right.
For oneworld Emerald in this case 2PC+1
I remember in the past on *A
UA,US,LH ... at the end suddenly there were 6PC
Mar 3, 2020, 4:54 pm
#90
Join Date: Dec 2019
Posts: 258
Have you done it even before you flew the previous segments?