Aer Lingus resumes flights to Hartford, Connecticut

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• RussellH says:

  8 Oct8 October 11:46

  I really like the idea of using BDL as a US gateway. It is probably small enough for immigration, were it to be necessary, to be reasonably civilised.
  Easy to drive away from, unlike BOS.
  Convenient for western Mass., VT and NH. Would certainly be my choice were I to return to New England at some time.

  • CamFlyer says:

    8 Oct8 October 11:59

    BDL is in same spirit as flying to PIT or CLE. It’s a very good move for EI, particularly leveraging US pre-clearance in DUB.

    • RussellH says:

      8 Oct8 October 13:10

      I had not remembered just how far north of Hartford the airport actually is – very close to the state line. I used to be in or near Springfield MA frequently many years ago and it was always referred to in Springfield as Hartford-Springfield Airport, or Bradley Field.

      But surely Pittsburgh and Cleveland are significantly bigger than even Hartford + Springfield combined. There does not seem to be a lot of connectivity out of BDL other than by car. Though parking seems cheap at $7 / day.

• Andrew. says:

  8 Oct8 October 13:24

  Pre-clearance at Dublin then into DCA would be my fantasy route

• ADS says:

  8 Oct8 October 14:12

  “As usual with Aer Lingus flights to the US, you CAN use US Immigration Pre-clearance in Dublin”

  It’s not so much CAN, as you MUST use pre clearance !

  You cannot board any US bound flight from Dublin without going through pre clearance – which means that you do need to allow plenty of time between your connecting flight into Dublin, and your onward flight to the US

• Barry says:

  9 Oct9 October 12:58

  Trying t listen to the podcast but it keeps failing around the 11 minute mark….

• andyl999 says:

  10 Oct10 October 17:47

  Concerning ICC cards, I have both € and € cards and I am able to move the points over to my Platinum Personal £ account. So I don’t understand why that doesn’t give me a 1:1 conversion rate?

  • Rob says:

    10 Oct10 October 18:15

    Because that’s how Amex has chosen to do it. It DOES make sense to them, because it is adjusting for the fact that the earn rates are 1 per £1, 1 per €1 and 1 per $1.

• QFFlyer says:

  13 Oct13 October 12:51

  Interesting, I didn’t notice that about the ICCs. I only took the Plat out again a few months ago. Seems the Business IDC/IEC are still available, but only to UK residents and require a printed application form (like Diners Club used to), so definitely looks like they’re trying to discourage applications.

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