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A good tip for anyone flying to major hub airports in the US like NY, LAX, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, or Boston is to use a US airline.

Generally they have dedicated terminals, and a higher proportion of their passengers are Americans who don't have to go through complicated immigration.

Carriers like BA, Virgin, Aer Lingus, Air France and KLM dump you in huge international terminals and you can guarantee an Air China 747 full of non English speaking immigrants will have arrived 5 minutes before you.

And anything that keeps you off BA is good. A truly dreadful airline.
 
all AA now T3 BA T5 since yesterday. T3 security 5 minutes at 6am. I never check bags so avoid that horror. plenty of booze on AA
 
Soutra said:
A good tip for anyone flying to major hub airports in the US like NY, LAX, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, or Boston is to use a US airline.

Generally they have dedicated terminals, and a higher proportion of their passengers are Americans who don't have to go through complicated immigration.

Carriers like BA, Virgin, Aer Lingus, Air France and KLM dump you in huge international terminals and you can guarantee an Air China 747 full of non English speaking immigrants will have arrived 5 minutes before you.

And anything that keeps you off BA is good. A truly dreadful airline.
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Each to their own. BA aren't perfect, but tell me an airline who is?
 
madlad7773 said:
Each to their own. BA aren't perfect, but tell me an airline who is?
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Yeah, my wife (pre COVID) did around 25 transatlantic flights per year, plus around 20 European flights 95% with BA and she loves them.

Also once you start getting to gold tier and have a BA Amex then your Avios build up alongside the companion / upgrade vouchers, and so start saving some serious money on your holiday trips.
 
Malaguena said:
Let's be fair - anybody who chooses to fly BA (if they have a choice) and especially from Heathrow, really can't complain when it goes t!ts up .... and that was before Covid
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Strange, maybe I've been lucky, but I've never really had (edit: too much of) a problem with them.
 
anyone else been through in the last couple of days? I am traveling in to T4 next weekend with wife and baby so praying its settled down a bit by then. Definitely going to purchase a couple of Apple air-tags though to be safe!
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Yeah, my wife (pre COVID) did around 25 transatlantic flights per year, plus around 20 European flights 95% with BA and she loves them.

Also once you start getting to gold tier and have a BA Amex then your Avios build up alongside the companion / upgrade vouchers, and so start saving some serious money on your holiday trips.
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Agree with that. Flew all around the world with BA for about a decade with not a single cancellation. Yes, it does help being business or first, I will admit that.
 
I flew into Manchester from Crete yesterday and didn’t have a single issue either way. The only slight delay was security at Manchester outbound. When we landed in Crete they were that efficient we were in the pool less than 90 minutes after the flight landed. Coming back was the same, straight through no issues at all. I accept that we probably got lucky but it’s not all bad out there.
 
Ditto Did Stansted to Kefalonia last Wed / Wed just gone. No issues except queue for coffee / breakfast at STN were larger than for checkin and security combined. telling everyone to allow 3 hours instead of 2 means 50% more passengers in the "middle bit" and half the food / drink places didn't open early enough.
 
madlad7773 said:
Glad some of you enjoy flying with BA!
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Easy to knock BA and I’d agree that some of the state funded Middle Eastern airlines are superb. But for breadth of destinations and quality of lounges, BA and T5 are difficult to beat. I once had to go Delta, a decrepit 767 and bloody Mary’s from a can. US airlines are uniformly dreadful in my experience.
 
Problem is unless you're Etihad, Emirates or Qatar, you haven't the money to just go for pure opulence. It has to be done a different way.
 
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