Aa/ba/ow lax-lhr-ist j $2869
Nov 11, 2022, 6:55 am
#18
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: DCA
Programs: AS MVP Gold 75K
Posts: 947
Just to slide in a further point of education, the proper postal abbreviation for the Commonwealth of Kentucky is not KT. It's KY.
Firstly, I am not nit-picking, I fully understand your point but I also seen an opportunity to share some information that possibly you and others may find useful.
Just like Airports have airport identifiers; LAX, HEL, NRT, CDG, CVG, LHR....., Larger cities or metropolises with multiple airports have City Identifiers. For Tokyo, that is TYO and recognized my most search engines.
If you are trying to find a flight from HND-ICN on JL, you will come up short because JL doesn't fly to ICN. In Seoul, South Korea, there are two airports, Icheon (ICN) & Gimpo (GMP). JL flies HND-GMP.
TYO encompases NRT & HND. Seoul has a city identifer of SEL which encompases ICN & GMP. If we search for flight from TYO-SEL it will return all flights from either NRT or HND to ICN or GMP. You would then see the JL HND-GMP as a result. Effectively, you are doing 4 searches at once. NRT-ICN, NRT-GMP, HND-ICN & HND-GMP.
Other City Identifers:
NYC: EWR, JFK, LGA
LON: LHR, LGW
PAR, CDG ORL
...
When searching and constructing routes to optimize for FF earnings, I will often use the City identifiers; you never know what gem you can find from an adjacent airport.
/Trivia: On
Amusingly, many airports are not actually in the city they identify. JFK & LGA are in Queens. MSY is in Kenner LA & YVR isn't in Vancouver, it is in Richmond on Sea Island.
Some airport identifiers don't even identify the city. As earlier shared, MSY is in Kenner, LA. There is an airport in New Orleans, NEW, but there was insufficient land to expand. A new facility was built in Kenner, LA at the (M)oisant (S)tock (Y)ard. Moisant was a stunt pilot that died in a crash.
CVG - Cincinnati OH, is an interesting Identifier. It is an airport identifer named after a city but it isn't Cincinnati and the airport isn't even in Ohio. The closest city to where the airport was built is CoVinGton, KT. If you have never been to Ohio & you are connecting through CVG, you still have never been to Ohio.
/Trivia: Off
LAX-LHR-IST/DXB is a little rich for me to call a MR but it is a good fare.
James
Just like Airports have airport identifiers; LAX, HEL, NRT, CDG, CVG, LHR....., Larger cities or metropolises with multiple airports have City Identifiers. For Tokyo, that is TYO and recognized my most search engines.
If you are trying to find a flight from HND-ICN on JL, you will come up short because JL doesn't fly to ICN. In Seoul, South Korea, there are two airports, Icheon (ICN) & Gimpo (GMP). JL flies HND-GMP.
TYO encompases NRT & HND. Seoul has a city identifer of SEL which encompases ICN & GMP. If we search for flight from TYO-SEL it will return all flights from either NRT or HND to ICN or GMP. You would then see the JL HND-GMP as a result. Effectively, you are doing 4 searches at once. NRT-ICN, NRT-GMP, HND-ICN & HND-GMP.
Other City Identifers:
NYC: EWR, JFK, LGA
LON: LHR, LGW
PAR, CDG ORL
...
When searching and constructing routes to optimize for FF earnings, I will often use the City identifiers; you never know what gem you can find from an adjacent airport.
/Trivia: On
Amusingly, many airports are not actually in the city they identify. JFK & LGA are in Queens. MSY is in Kenner LA & YVR isn't in Vancouver, it is in Richmond on Sea Island.
Some airport identifiers don't even identify the city. As earlier shared, MSY is in Kenner, LA. There is an airport in New Orleans, NEW, but there was insufficient land to expand. A new facility was built in Kenner, LA at the (M)oisant (S)tock (Y)ard. Moisant was a stunt pilot that died in a crash.
CVG - Cincinnati OH, is an interesting Identifier. It is an airport identifer named after a city but it isn't Cincinnati and the airport isn't even in Ohio. The closest city to where the airport was built is CoVinGton, KT. If you have never been to Ohio & you are connecting through CVG, you still have never been to Ohio.
/Trivia: Off
LAX-LHR-IST/DXB is a little rich for me to call a MR but it is a good fare.
James
Nov 11, 2022, 9:40 am
#19
Join Date: Jul 1999
Programs: QF WP, AA EXP
Posts: 3,520
Yeah this pretty much makes it a no-go for me. It's absurd that BA does this on these longer flights. Same thing to Cairo. There are some good ex-CAI fares, but since the wide-bodies and Lie Flat 321's are off this route, so am I.
Nov 11, 2022, 11:57 am
#20
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Southern Cali
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Posts: 2,022
Yup. Really enjoyed the 787 from CAI to LHR.
Nov 12, 2022, 10:58 pm
#21
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: New York
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Posts: 1,227
Also available in F from JFK on BA for $3948 with Chase 10%. Books into A transatlantic and J LHR -IST. Good mileage opportunity for AS.