Delta increases London Heathrow services on two niche routes – Portland and Detroit

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• Callum says:

  4 Oct4 October 04:12

  If you didn’t want to risk the Emirates/Amex transfer, you could always transfer the minimum then transfer the rest once you see your tickets are still available.

• Zane says:

  4 Oct4 October 05:10

  A 25 minute turnaround for the Portland flight at LHR?

  • Adey says:

    4 Oct4 October 05:21

    Perhaps Rob has edited the article, but the LHR turnaround is 2hr 40m (11:10 to 13:50)

    • Callum says:

      4 Oct4 October 05:44

      That’s Detroit.

      Maybe the planes are swapping routes for some reason.

      Land from Portland at 12:05, leave for Detroit at 1:50.
      Land from Detroit at 11:10, leave for Portland at 12:30.

      Or the same with other routes.

      • Nick says:

        4 Oct4 October 09:11

        All US airlines swap aircraft over London. Take AA for example. There is one single longhaul AA flight from RDU… London on a 777. Either they keep that aircraft permanently on that route, with long turns in each place and no allowance for engineering input, or they route it elsewhere. They don’t need a 777 to go anywhere in the US from there, so they route LHR-RDU-LHR-ORD to integrate it back into their network. United even have crew based in London for operational flexibility.

        It’s not rocket science, and doesn’t require a huge amount of thought to understand, just a little bit of common sense.

      • Alex says:

        4 Oct4 October 10:48

        Non-hub flights need to position the planes using a W routing from an actual Delta hub

  • John says:

    4 Oct4 October 08:23

    It probably isn’t going back to where it came from, US airlines like to do complicated things with their scheduling.

    • Mark2 says:

      4 Oct4 October 13:59

      They probably see it as making the best use of expensive assets.

      • Lumma says:

        4 Oct4 October 16:49

        My AA flight to New York had came in from Dallas the other week. Seems to be normal

  • @mkcol says:

    5 Oct5 October 09:12

    I was thinking it was a W pattern.

• Alex Sm says:

  4 Oct4 October 14:27

  Is the photo of a single berth cabin on a new sleeper train? Looks massive! Like an easyHotel room!

  • Genghis says:

    4 Oct4 October 15:15

    It’s like some estate agents pics of London flats where they’ve used smaller furniture

  • Sam says:

    5 Oct5 October 10:29

    That’s the en-suite double bed! And not cheap.

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