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

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• Matt says:

  29 Oct29 October 08:31

  I’m booked on a December EK Gatwick flights in Economy unfortunately, and one of the attractions was the 777 aircraft – I’d much rather be in a smaller aircraft and in one of the twin seats at the back, given the covid risk. Boarding and onboarding an A380 is never a pleasant experience in cattle class, even with priority boarding.

  • Lady London says:

    29 Oct29 October 12:09

    Air is better on an A380 though – for a start there’s a lot more of it over your head

  • Blair says:

    29 Oct29 October 12:10

    Sorry, what is this cattle class and sitting at the back? Surely HfPers only turn left

    • Tarmohamed says:

      29 Oct29 October 12:56

      It’s only 40k Amex points to turn left…

• Jonathan says:

  29 Oct29 October 08:37

  I thought Avios could earned via AerClub (Aer Lingus loyalty program when flying with United Airlines ?

  • ChrisC says:

    29 Oct29 October 08:48

    Indeed you do

    https://www.headforpoints.com/2020/06/21/how-to-earn-avios-when-flying-united-airlines/

  • Alex Sm says:

    29 Oct29 October 10:44

    You are absolutely right, are you not) but no one was arguing with that, Rob’s article only mentioned Avios in connection to redemptions

    • ChrisC says:

      29 Oct29 October 11:29

      Not sure what your comment is about

      A question was asked about earning avios whenflying UA and I answered it!

      • Alex Sm says:

        29 Oct29 October 19:07

        It was about the question, not your answer. The question was asked in a way that something was missing / wrong in the original article

• ChrisC says:

  29 Oct29 October 08:41

  I have a bit of a soft spot for UA as they were the first airline to ever upgrade me to Business Class almost 20 years ago.

  I’d arrived late from BOS and trudged almost the whole length of their IAD terminal to arrive breathless at the already boarding flight to LHR. All I wanted was a window seat.

  Anyway the agent must have taken pity on me, tapped away on her keyboard then gave me an upturned BP. I asked if it was for a window and she said “this is better”.

  I think there was some of her not wanting someone else to have the upgrade but I still thank her today!

  • Jonathan says:

    29 Oct29 October 09:01

    Things like that don’t happen anymore !

    • Michael AC says:

      29 Oct29 October 13:24

      I was fresh out of hospital in New York and was travelling BA back to London. I got upgraded at the gate, but I said I wouldn’t take it because I didn’t want to be far from my partner (who was travelling on another ticket). The gate agent upgraded my partner on the condition that she would get to play a joke and say we were being bumped off the flight. I needed the laugh, and it was really lovely of her to upgrade us both. That was only about 5 years ago now.

  • Oh! Matron! says:

    29 Oct29 October 09:12

    IAD is one of my favourite airports…. The Air and Space Museum where you go up into the control tower, listen to ATC chatter whilst watching aircraft depart, the funny little bus things that scamper around the apron, the “fast” lane along the highway into DC (until you get to Great Falls, I think), the never ending debacle of whether the Metro will ever get to the airport…. It makes the new Berlin airport look sprightly in comparison!

    • Andrew says:

      29 Oct29 October 09:22

      IAD is an interesting airport, the very retro syling in some parts makes it feels like you could be on the set of “The Americans”. The mobile lounges are quite an experience.

      It will be good when the Silver Line finally gets there. But the whining of Americans about the 300 metre distance they’ll have to waddle to reach it is just silly and in the meantime I’ll change at NYC, BOS or YYZ and fly into DCA.

      • ChrisC says:

        29 Oct29 October 09:59

        Silver line due to start public operations early next year.

        The DC metro are doing their trial running and acceptance testing now.

  • tony says:

    29 Oct29 October 09:32

    +1 to that. Also about 20 years back, but the number of times my wife and I got upgraded on UA across the pond was comical. Two successive overnights from Y to J, then we got the UA credit card so on the next trips bought more expensive Y tickets and upgraded with points into J. Got what we paid for on one journey but on the other we were upgraded at the gate both out and back into F. 777s with the cassette player in the armrest and a decent steak are my two lasting memories!

  • John says:

    29 Oct29 October 11:44

    They probably gave your seat to a standby passenger and were about to offload you.

    Happened to my family in the year 2000, same story, late arrival into SFO.

    Because my parents never listened to me, we walked the whole length of the terminal in the wrong direction and then had to run back, arriving breathless at the gate just as someone was closing the door.

    I guess they let us on because we had checked luggage and it was 9pm – but they had given away all but one of our economy seats to standby pax so the adults got into the front of the plane and I was stuck between two fat people in the back, but I was 10 years old so it wasn’t that bad

• Alison Day says:

  29 Oct29 October 09:31

  I have had a really positive experience of United (transatlantic not US domestic) & Polaris. One of my favourite lounges is the Polaris lounge at ORD. Not flown with them since Jan 20 and my status has now expired. Interesting to see the direct Denver route as I have a work conference there in Sept 22 and I was looking at the direct BA route.

• MinR says:

  29 Oct29 October 10:32

  Any thoughts on whether EK will reinstate the STN flight?

  I’m currently booked on EK F to LHR in January, but hoping to change to STN for the ‘game-changer’ suites.

  • MinR says:

    29 Oct29 October 10:35

    Nvm, I see it’s been asked and answered on Page 1.

• Paul says:

  29 Oct29 October 11:42

  How can United “be the biggest airline between London and New York” when BA alone is (currently) offering more flights?

  • Mikeact says:

    29 Oct29 October 12:27

    Already mentioned….previous page.

• George K says:

  29 Oct29 October 16:15

  Any idea why United charges an obscene amount of money if you want to fly one-way to the States? Like £1.5k for an economy ticket one way, but £300 for a return to New York.

  • Rob says:

    29 Oct29 October 16:29

    They only sell one ways as fully flexible refundable tickets.

    • George K says:

      29 Oct29 October 16:35

      Thank you – what’s the logic behind that, I wonder?

      • Nick says:

        29 Oct29 October 17:52

        Obviously haven’t flown much on network airlines! Standard airline pricing model, it’s mainly because traditionally most people who buy one way tickets longhaul can and will pay it. LCCs started to chip away at the model (particularly Norwegian) but with their effective demise it’s back to the old ways.

• Richie says:

  29 Oct29 October 16:45

  Out of all of those late spring daily flights, UA is only operating 4 of them with B789 aircraft, the rest are B752, 763, 772. They’ve got to be very cheap fares to find me on a dated plane.

  • Nick says:

    29 Oct29 October 17:52

    The 763s with Polaris are very highly regarded. Shiny and new doesn’t always equal best!

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