Put down your scones, clotted cream, and crumpets, it's time for an announcement from everyone's favo(u)rite airline.... Back in March, British Airways announced their two inaugural A380 destinations, which are Los Angeles and Hong Kong starting in October and November of this year, respectively. Well, they've just announced their third A380 destination, which will be…
Continue reading: British Airways announces their third A380 destination — Johannesburg as of February 12, 2014
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Why not do a daytime flight down and nighttime flight back; that way they can use the same plane. UA does the same on their flight IAH to EZE where the plane just sits there.
Hurry up BA and give us the A380 to Miami instead of the 2 daily 747s with old-First half of the time. http://exmiami.org/index.php/british-airways-bringing-a380-to-miami/
All A380's (and mosts flights) to JNB sit there the whole day (LH/AF) KL does a direct return (& has 2 flights per day).
It's a high airport.
also noticed that LHR-LAX is going all A380 (double daily A380) starting April 2014 🙂
My LAX-JNB tickets on BA (with a stopover in LHR) was $3200 in taxes and fees for 2 F tickets on miles. About $2200 of that was YQ.
They charge max YQ on each of the 4 segments - LAX-LHR, LHR-JNB, JNB-LHR, LHR-LAX.
It has a lot of paid F, I'm sure that's why they are using it on that route.
I guess CPT isn't set up for 380's otherwise it would make sense to do a turn there in the daytime, like TK does? Finding domestic award space in SA can be tough.
@lucky - is it possible that BA and AA charge different taxes / fees / surcharges for the same redemption on BA metal. AA is charging me more than double the money ($650 vs $300, though obviously less miles on AA 90K vs 135K). This is for a India - US one way in F.
AFAIK, AF and LH use the waiting time in JNB for deep-cleaning and thorough checking of their aircrafts, as it's way cheaper than in their home bases...
@beachfan: Congrats on pulling that off! I had planned on using a Chase 2-4-1 for that exact trip. Had so much trouble finding any availability that I wrote software to scrape BA.com regularly and despite being completely flexible over the entire calendar I simply couldn't put together a roundtrip. Been running for over 5 months now and quite a few days LAX-LHR had ZERO days with 2xF seats on the ENTIRE calendar!
Anyway, back on topic: Glad to see them bringing new longhaul online, so insane that they haven't managed to complete the "new" First fitting still 🙂
@ SK -- If you don't mind me asking, what city pair are you looking at? Just priced out a BA F itinerary through both AA and BA, and taxes were within a few dollars of each other.
@lucky - strange, looking at BOM-JFK. What are you getting the taxes as - closer to $300 or to $600 ?