American Airlines to move more flights to Heathrow Terminal 5

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• ChrisC says:

  12 Mar12 March 04:31

  If there were ever to be a pre clearance facility at LHR it would have to be open for all airlines to use not just BA and AA. And that would bring in a whole set of problems such as how would DL/Vs/UA/B6 check in their pax as well as things like lounges.

  HAL have had years to put together a proposal to both the US and UK governments for it to happen yet nothing appears to have been done,

  MAN has apparently built space for one but again nothing appears to have happened to make it actually happen.

  The only airports that appeared on a 2016 DHS list of possible airports to have made any actual progress are ARN and BRU.

  • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

    12 Mar12 March 08:51

    That’s not how preclearance worked when it first started in Dublin. Some airlines didn’t take part voluntarily, some airlines didn’t move to T2 when the pre-clearance shifted to there, some airlines (most annoyingly) only used pre-clearance for morning flights but not their flights post-lunchtime. Frankly at this stage in the UK, anything would be better than nothing so I’ll take what we get. Although I am now so used to ex-DUB for US trips that I’m not sure I’d ever use UK-based pre-clearance to a great extent.

• Voltron says:

  12 Mar12 March 05:05

  Wasn’t there rumours that the Conrad Rangali Maldives was supposedly meant to be leaving Hilton a while ago?

• Neo says:

  12 Mar12 March 05:12

  Plan is easy all b777 with first class going to T5….

• Can says:

  12 Mar12 March 06:56

  I said it before and I’ll say it again: US points and miles market should fall!!!

  • BJ says:

    12 Mar12 March 07:13

    Never going to happen but it is increasingly suffocating the loyalty market elsewhere.. In the UK, playing the portals and offers now makes much more sense than playing hotel loyalty schemes. This may even be the case where one holds lifetime status. Tine for my HH card to go, I have been clinging to it for purely sentimental reasons.

    • can says:

      12 Mar12 March 07:34

      I know. It is a pity how suffocated we’ve already become: no chase rewards card, underwhelming barclays card, 24mo wait rule…

      And i sait it “should” fall, not it will fall :))

• Alan says:

  12 Mar12 March 07:07

  Yep, the points inflation drive from the US is just scary and so different to the rest of the world. At least BA try to offset it slightly with the increased fees for ex-US redemptions.

  • dougzz99 says:

    12 Mar12 March 10:14

    Yes BA try to do their bit for us 😉

• bafan says:

  12 Mar12 March 07:12

  Yeah I’m staying in a Hilton right now and my card gives 12 points / $1 on Hilton purchase, 3 points / $1 for everything else and Gold status for $95 annual fee (that usually they waive it if I call) plus the free night benefit. Really solid card.

• Mattb says:

  12 Mar12 March 07:27

  I only just booked the WA BH for 95k using the 5 nights for 4, I assume existing bookings will be honoured?

  • Neil says:

    12 Mar12 March 07:37

    Wow… same here, for once I’m lucky!!!

    Just booked 6 nights at the Conrad Maldives for 95,000 next feb, mows they want 120,000 for the same nights!!!

    Thankfully this increase is only limited to the top resorts!

    • BuildBackBetter says:

      12 Mar12 March 08:36

      It has been noticed in top resorts. Other hotels could’ve had increased but stayed under radar.

      • Rob says:

        12 Mar12 March 09:25

        Exactly. We don’t have data points for the rest.

      • BJ says:

        12 Mar12 March 11:13

        Given Hilton kept it quiet it seems quite plausible they might drip feed increases more widely over the next few days or weeks. I checked my stays in UK, USA, Thailand and Japan last night and none had increased so far.

    • Flyingmoonwards says:

      12 Mar12 March 12:08

      See you there 🙂

  • H says:

    12 Mar12 March 08:37

    We are at the WA BH this April on 4 for 5 nights. Cash rates are now over $6000 – no wonder points rates are going up.

  • Rob says:

    12 Mar12 March 09:27

    Yes. Hotel gets paid the same by Hilton anyway.

• David says:

  12 Mar12 March 07:39

  I’m depressed. Sitting in the Seychelles earning lots of Hilton points that I was going to spend at Conrad Maldives. The 120000 rate doing 5 nights for 4 is still good value. Booked today that is over 1p per point. However, along with the rate hike they have removed the option to book an over water Villa for 120000, which is what I was going to do. These used to be available along with beach villas. Now they want over 500000 for the over water villas, which are in the no kids part of the resort, so are particularly desirable for couples. Anyone got any suggestions for outsize value elsewhere if you have a million points to spend?

  • Jeff77 says:

    12 Mar12 March 09:51

    Not really worth getting depressed over

  • BuildBackBetter says:

    12 Mar12 March 18:11

    Email them and upgrade using cash.

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