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Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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One of the things I miss about living in DC is all of the non-stop international flights available there! My daughter is traveling to Paris in April so she will be flying through another city as my husband did when he went to Germany earlier this year.
This is great news! Not so great is it is on a 757. Argh.
Prior to the intro of the 747, everyone flew a narrowbody 707 or DC8 across the pond and passengers thought nothing of it. The real question is whether DL can put enough fuel into the 757 to make the westbound crossing consistently without having to refuel in Maine (headwinds).
Prior to the intro of the 747, everyone flew a narrowbody 707 or DC8 across the pond and passengers thought nothing of it. The real question is whether DL can put enough fuel into the 757 to make the westbound crossing consistently without having to refuel in Maine (headwinds).
Having to stop in Maine would suck.
I wonder if this hurts the AA RDU-London flight any? Surely a certain number of people go to Heathrow and then to Paris. Does make doing both cities on one trip a bit easier since you can go the first place on one flight and leave from the other city.
Surely some people have indeed been flying RDU-Heathrow-Paris on AA/BA, but it's a minority of passengers on the RDU-Heathrow flight. CDG is even more of a PITA to make connections at than Heathrow, so I doubt the RDU-based flyer going to Vienna (for example) would choose CDG over Heathrow as a connecting airport unless he or she is already committed to SkyTeam. Many RDU-based flyers are DL-loyal these days, and coming the other direction nearly all Paris-based flyers would be AF-loyal and therefore keen to take the DL flight.
The good news is that flyers into CDG can catch high-speed trains there to many destinations in adjacent countries.
I wonder if this hurts the AA RDU-London flight any? Surely a certain number of people go to Heathrow and then to Paris. Does make doing both cities on one trip a bit easier since you can go the first place on one flight and leave from the other city.
Probably not. It's always been my understanding that GSK subsidizes that route and as long as they keep subsidizing it it's in no danger.
GSK and several other local pharma's put quite a few people on the AA airlines flights. I don't believe the company actually subsidizes the flight. GSK also has a site in Evreux France, so if they are not going to the UK sites, they might as well take the flight to Paris.
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