British Airways adds a new day flight from Newark to London Heathrow

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• Walter Spracklin says:

  19 Feb19 February 12:18

  Good for customers but I fear it won’t last.
  Last time they tried it, it became a 767 and then got killed off.
  Looks like a pathetic attempt to hit United who have an 8am departure with the far superior Polaris product.
  A shame BA can’t focus on getting the (nowadays) awful quality (food, bad handling and stuff) right before it tries all this.

  • Lady London says:

    19 Feb19 February 20:59

    Do you think it will get killed off then? How long do you think they will keep it in the schedules for, if so.

    I still think Concorde was the best thing ever timing-wise for New York.

    • Nick says:

      20 Feb20 February 01:03

      I like the 10am AA departure best of all and wish BA would do similar here. But they’re not brave enough to do that as it would have to stand entirely on P2P traffic and I think they believe they’ll have to rely on evening connections to make up the volume. To me though, that’s why it’s likely to fail.

    • Nick says:

      20 Feb20 February 01:03

      I like the 10am AA departure best of all and wish BA would do similar here. But they’re not brave enough to do that as it would have to stand entirely on P2P traffic and I think they believe they’ll have to rely on evening connections to make up the volume. To me though, that’s why it’s likely to fail.

• Pdah1980 says:

  19 Feb19 February 12:40

  Credit to BA. I have silver status and they allowed me and 4 guests into lounge on outbound and return. Very friendly.

  • Track says:

    20 Feb20 February 13:02

    That’s because lounges are not at capacity busy (depends which and T5 lounges seems as busy as can be).

• A says:

  19 Feb19 February 14:09

  This is good thing and I swear by the day flights. I’d only be using this one as a last resort though, like if both VS & BA from JFK had no availability, as EWR from Brooklyn is a bit of a mission, and lets face it, EWR is a hole.

  • Andrew says:

    19 Feb19 February 23:53

    There’s already a day flight from JFK, this is about an additional overall frequency from a capacity perspective and the choice of flying from EWR.

• Dominic Barrington says:

  19 Feb19 February 15:29

  I’m intrigued by all the positive responses for the daytime option. Personally I find the daytime flights mess me up with regard to jet lag far more than the overnight ones!

  • dougzz99 says:

    19 Feb19 February 20:31

    For me it’s all about arrival time at destination. If it’s a night flight you have to get some sleep as you’ll need to be up all the following day. If it’s a day flight you have to stay awake as you need to sleep once you’re home. Simply about making best effort to adjust to arrival time. People put huge value in CS over CW on BA, but an A350/B787 leaves you far less ‘’lagged’ than older aircraft with poorer pressure/humidity, much more important than seat.

• Mike wright says:

  19 Feb19 February 16:47

  Please put a caveat that when the Plaza Premium Lounge in LHR T5 is busy they turn away AMEX Plat cardholders; this happened to me on Feb 10. I got in 45 minutes later. It outshines the BA lounges – I had Club ticket and used the 45 minted to check the South Lounge. I would happily help BA lift the quality of its lounges to Plaza Premium level.

• Mike Wright says:

  19 Feb19 February 16:52

  And turning to the inflight food, it used to be superb on MAN-LHR-MAN. Now it is a cheese croissant. On LHR-PHX in 10 Feb I left most of the first meal – roast beef- and declined the second meal. The staff and the Club with Dolores on the 777-300ER were superb. Again, BA is 95% of the way there and needs someone to lift them the last 5%. I’m offering my services.

• Mike Wright says:

  19 Feb19 February 16:54

  *Dolores should be doors

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