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BA, LHR-LAX

  • 15-06-2012 11:15pm
    #1
    Nissan doctor
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    Does anyone know what A/C are normally used on the above route?

    Heading in December so just wonder what they normally use.


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  • #2
    b757
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,370 ✭✭✭b757


    That would be a Boeing 747-400 that you will be travelling on.

    Or a Boeing 777 if American airlines are operating that trip.


  • #3
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    b757 wrote: »
    That would be a Boeing 747-400 that you will be travelling on.


    Cheers, I thought they may use 777's as well on that route. I haven't got one under my belt yet.:)


  • #4
    b757
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,370 ✭✭✭b757


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    Cheers, I thought they may use 777's as well on that route. I haven't got one under my belt yet.:)

    You may be lucky, they could change around the aircraft.. Or the 747 could go tech..

    Either way, enjoy the trip!


  • #5
    Bearcat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭Bearcat


    You might be one of their new 777 300s......lucky sod:)

    Was it cheaper by a long way to go LHR instead DUB-ORD(Chicago)-LAX using AL on the 1st sector? A lot of folk use this route to get to the west coast.


  • #6
    EchoIndia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,158 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    This is the flight, I presume: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BAW283


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  • #7
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    Bearcat wrote: »
    You might be one of their new 777 300s......lucky sod:)

    Was it cheaper by a long way to go LHR instead DUB-ORD(Chicago)-LAX using AL on the 1st sector? A lot of folk use this route to get to the west coast.

    I've used a travel agent in Dublin for years and have tried a few times to find flights/hotels myself cheaper but never have, so I don't bother any more.

    I have noticed that the last couple of years its UK-US flights we get as the cheapest option, it used to always be EI/CO/US out of Dublin.


  • #8
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,575 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    http://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/BAW279

    BA also use 777's on this route, see my pic below of one overflying Glasgow

    G-STBE March 31 2012 LAX to LHR
    c4ca2526.jpg


  • #9
    murphym7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭murphym7


    I have been using Heathrow to get to the West coast for the last few years now - mainly with BA, but this August using Virgin. I have seen the 777 on the LAX route before with BA. I prefer the short layover and one big jaunt across - getting off in New York or Chicago and then facing into another longish flight wrecks my head - I prefer just to get it over with in one long trip.

    I was lucky enough to travel back from ORD on one of the new BA 777-300 back in May - luckier still was that I was sitting in seat 3A!! All future flights are now ruined, as I will most likely never get to sit in the pointy end again.


  • #10
    GALLA_4
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7 ✭GALLA_4


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    Does anyone know what A/C are normally used on the above route?

    Heading in December so just wonder what they normally use.

    Well last time I went with Delta (Boeing 777) think it was €760 euros it owed me


  • #11
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    I flew BA on this route two years ago and it was a 747-400 and it was not the best, the seat were very cramped and it had a very old 6" inch square seatback screen which was torrid. It made for a very enjoyable 10 hr flight, with a short transfer in Heathrow back to Ireland so we couldn't get some fresh air and remained behind security in transfers, this drove the smokers of us insane! Then BA misplaced the bags which didn't go down well, but they shipped them following day to massive relief.


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  • #12
    brandon_flowers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭brandon_flowers


    The cheapest way to the West Coast is through PHL or CLT with US Airways but my God is it a terrible experience. I would rank them lower than any low fares on this side of the Atlantic. I had to endure DUB-PHL-SFO and LAS-CLT-DUB recently. I nearly strangled the missus when she told me she had picked those flights instead of the BA through LHR-LAX.

    As previous poster said, one 13 hour flight is better than two 6/7 hour flights and the crap that goes with internal flying in the US.


  • #13
    Bearcat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭Bearcat


    As a regular domestic flyer in the US I concur their levels of passenger service especially with JB border on appalling.


  • #14
    brandon_flowers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭brandon_flowers


    Haven't flown Jet Blue but if we think Ryanair charge for silly stuff here... US Airways charge an extra $60 for an aisle seat. So if you want to sit with your wife/gf/child you either sit in 2 inside seats or pay the extra. I found it extremely frustrating because I always sit in an aisle seat, especially knowing the chances of being beside a McDonalds monster are reasonably high on one of those flights.


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