Re: UA LHRBRU Flights

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....My wife and I just booked ATL-IAD-LHR/CDG-IAD-ATL
consolidator fare on UA...We could have not done the
open jaw and gone on the first part ATL-IAD-LHR-CDG
(for the same price, about $509 each total) .....Just
curious to know what Codeshare? Aircraft? we will be
missing LHR-CDG!

Bryant Petitt
Cumming, GA

--- Nick Laflamme <dplaflamme@alumni.nd.edu> wrote:
> At 01:21 AM 5/15/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >I have noticed over the next couple of months UA is
> offering flights
> >between Heathrow and Brussels on their own
> 767-300s.  Anyone have any idea
> >why they are doing this?
>
> LHR is a minor hub for UA; my guess is that this is
> to improve their
> ability to deliver customers to Brussels, through
> London. Whether this is a
> reaction to Sabena or not, I couldn't say. As for
> why they chose flight
> numbers that are also used for LHR-SFO flights, I
> can't really say. Clearly
> they won't be using the same plane (the
> trans-Atlantic segments are 777s;
> the trans-Channel segments, as noted, are 763s).
> Maybe SFO has a relatively
> high population of Belgians?


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