United to move to 22 Heathrow flights to the USA per day

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• CH says:

  29 Oct29 October 03:28

  Any speculation as to when the EK STN flight may return?

  • Matthew says:

    29 Oct29 October 09:01

    Slated end of March 2022

    • Matthew says:

      29 Oct29 October 09:07

      Just double checked and it has been moved on again to 1st July 2022.

• Fly1A says:

  29 Oct29 October 05:59

  You have to laugh at the timing of this increased air activity…….just days before cop26 in which Little Britain sets out how it will single handedly “save the planet” by taxing hard working people to within a penny of the threshold for benefits, whilst France and Germany roll on the floor laughing and China and India ignore everything and continue to manufacture cheap rubbish to sell on Ebay and Amazon!!

  • Paul Pogba says:

    29 Oct29 October 06:40

    It’s so important world leaders are flying there to discuss it on environmentally friendly VC-25s, A330s, A310s etc powered by smug.

    • Mike says:

      29 Oct29 October 07:25

      don’t they make fridges…oh wait that is SMEG

    • Alex Sm says:

      29 Oct29 October 10:38

      I thought smug is the word to describe authors of comments like yours but how can they power an aircraft?

      • Paul Pogba says:

        29 Oct29 October 13:41

        I’m far too low brow to be smug about anything, I stole the reference from South Park.

  • BuildBackBetter says:

    29 Oct29 October 07:49

    Don’t understand why some people get a hard on when uk hosts something. It’s not like uk has agreed to shut down all offices and industries.
    We’re you also mocking France when it hosted the Paris agreement and signed up?

  • Andrew says:

    29 Oct29 October 08:38

    I’m just laughing at the outrage from the protest groups who aren’t happy that Glasgow City Council is refusing to organise shelters for them with single digit daytime temperatures and heavy rain forecast for most of the conference.

    If you don’t have accommodation, don’t go to Glasgow.

    Still, I’m sure the “pop-ups” on Wallace Street will be kept busy.

    • John says:

      29 Oct29 October 11:45

      I just went to Glasgow and it was surprisingly warm for late October – must be all the smugness

  • ken says:

    29 Oct29 October 10:23

    “whilst France and Germany roll on the floor laughing”

    France who get 70% of their electricity from nuclear and 7% from coal & gas combined.

    The France that is about 20% more productive than the UK.

    That France ?

    Or are you thinking of a different one ?

    • The Lord says:

      29 Oct29 October 11:14

      and how does Germany generate its power?

      • Rhys says:

        29 Oct29 October 11:20

        Mostly coal!

        • ken says:

          29 Oct29 October 11:39

          Its actually wind.

          More wind than UK, more solar than UK and more hydro.

          Idiotic phase out of nuclear though.

        • Rhys says:

          29 Oct29 October 12:19

          Not much more wind than UK, though, just a couple of percentage points. And around 25% coal!

• Roger says:

  29 Oct29 October 07:40

  Any news on EY Etihad bringing back their A380 or are they done for good?

  Hope they too Long with QR increase the number of flights over the holidays period.

  • meta says:

    29 Oct29 October 08:47

    Gone forever. All textual references to First Apartment and The Residence have been removed from Etihad’s website. All that is left are a few photos under first class experiences description. I’m glad I got to do it at least once.

• ChrisW says:

  29 Oct29 October 07:41

  How will United be the largest airline between London and New York next Spring?

  I count 10 daily BA operated flights (8 to JFK, 2 to EWR) versus 7 UA.

  • Jack says:

    29 Oct29 October 08:21

    Yep, correct.

    Rob, look at the press release again – they claim, in a deliberately ambiguous way to make people think what you have written – “ United will offer more flights between New York City and London than any other U.S. carrier”.

    U.S. carrier. BA will continue to offer more flights between London and New York than any other carrier.

• Stuart says:

  29 Oct29 October 07:56

  Where are United getting all their slots from?

  • Rhys says:

    29 Oct29 October 08:09

    They had a fair amount already pre-Covid. Not sure if there are any new slots here – although they borrowed some from Lufthansa in 2019.

    • Jack says:

      29 Oct29 October 08:22

      This would be interesting to understand. Yes, there are new slots here. UA operated 17 daily LHR arrivals/departures in S19.

      • Rhys says:

        29 Oct29 October 08:33

        Given the lack of high profile sales they were most likely either allocated them or have got them from Star Alliance partners as in the past.

        • Nick says:

          29 Oct29 October 08:58

          I’m pretty sure these are all UA’s slots, they haven’t taken any new ones. They might previously have loaned some out to other airlines but they can take them back.

        • ChrisC says:

          29 Oct29 October 09:56

          If they got them from the unallocated pool then it would be in the slot controllers report.

  • ChrisC says:

    30 Oct30 October 02:27

    That appears – if you click on the last column entry for the detail – to be a swap of existing slot times for BOS rather than BA losing slots to UA.

• memesweeper says:

  29 Oct29 October 08:09

  United TFCs are nice and low on the London — New York route, for instance 144,000 miles + GBP 247.47 return if booked through Singapore Kris. More miles than BA or Virgin but no ludicrous YQ.

• Cal says:

  29 Oct29 October 08:11

  For the IHG bonus, I have to purchase at least 30,000 to get the 100% bonus.

  • ChrisC says:

    29 Oct29 October 08:27

    Me too.

    There is that huge step where it’s 29k points for $290 but spend $10 more and you’ll get 60k points.

    But like Rob I was offered the 500k for $2,500.not a buyer at the moment though

• Andrew says:

  29 Oct29 October 08:30

  That’s good news with United. The morning flight from IAD to LHR has been reintroduced.

  More importantly, the direct EDI-EWR flights are back on the schedule from the 5th March and EDI-IAD and EDI-ORD from the 7th May next year.

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