Future Heathrow: T5D, T5E & Yet More T5A
02/03/12 | Forum post in reply to VintageKrug

Becky, I believe Virgin and Emirates are remaining at T3, given Virgin has invested in its checkin/security/Clubhouse there and Emirates has also invested in its lounge. T4 does have spare capacity though, although the theory that all...

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30 May deadline for spending Airpoints on upgrades
01/03/12 | New topic created

Air NZ has announced a measure that significantly devalues the Airpoints dollars in Airpoints members accounts. From 30 May, Airpoints Dollars will no longer be usable to request standby upgrades that will be allocated according to availability...

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LHR 3rd Runway Free Enterprise Group
01/03/12 | Forum post in reply to RichHI1

There are three major London airports that can be expanded: - Stansted. Plenty of room, rural locale. Will be some local opposition, but hardly going to be serious. Problem is that it is running at less than 60% capacity now. Has good...

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Future Heathrow: T5D, T5E & Yet More T5A
29/02/12 | Forum post in reply to VintageKrug

The one big thing T2 will do is bring Star Alliance airlines together so will provide some welcome relief to T3. I don't know if the intention is to bring all *A airlines into T2 at once, shift the T3 ones first or the T1 ones first, but I hope...

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Who are the First Class Pax by Airline?
27/02/12 | Forum post in reply to RichHI1

NTarrant - I wouldn't take much from a recent flight on QF on LHR-HKG-MEL in F given that: 1. QF is dropping LHR-HKG in March entirely, preferring customers codeshare on BA on that segment to feed onto QF flights to SYD and MEL (or go the...

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First class to NY
10/02/12 | Forum post in reply to FlewTooFew

I concur with Frankflyer. BA First on a 747 is easily superior to all others on this route. Virgin Upper Class once could have been touted as getting to be as "good as first". Its checkin experience is good and the Clubhouse is an...

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worlds apart: The remarkable differences of first class pre flight performance between BA in Heathrow 5 and LH in Frankfurt
10/02/12 | Forum post in reply to germantraveller

Indeed, LH on the ground at FRA beats BA at T5, but in the air I'd argue LH in First, except the A380 product, is dated certainly compared with New First. However, Binman is right. BA bears all others Trans-Atlantic in 1st as it only has AA...

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Manchester airport as a hub for the UK
10/02/12 | Forum post in reply to transtraxman

It has a fundamental flaw. The hub status of Heathrow has less to do with the numbers of people served as to the yield of their travellers. Quite simple Manchester lacks significant numbers of high yielding business travellers that are the...

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BA online ticketing anomaly - WT+ cheaper than WT
08/02/12 | Forum post in reply to TiredOldHack

This happens from time to time on various airlines. Routes that get very high leisure demand, but limited premium demand at certain times can mean that not far out from departure time it can be as cheap if not cheaper to go in a undersold...

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