How about NZ from Los Angeles to London? They have an excellent J Class product. Mark -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael C. Berch Sent: December 10, 2004 3:32 PM To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Some transatlantic questions Thanks. Actually, I have done transatlantic on LH a bunch of times, both SFO-FRA (744) and SFO-MUC (A340). It's very nice service, esp, in the A340 with 2-2-2 seating (I like the middle section in business class, it's a aisle but with no one climbing over you). But for this trip I can't really make it work, since there's only direct service to Germany and that's a long backtrack to Dublin. I also have no plausible business reason to fly to Germany, so there would be some explaining to do on my expense report :-), whereas I can write off London as a plausible gateway to Dublin, esp. if I route SFO-LHR-DUB-(X)-LHR-SFO, with LHR-DUB being a cheap bmi flight or even an add-on to my main ticket. (X) is some side trips in Europe by train or else bmi/Easyjet/Ryanair. --Michael On Dec 10, 2004, at 1:15 PM, Alireza Alivandivafa wrote: > Why not go with LH? They have great transatlantic service and are > STAR. If you wanted to open jaw from DUB, you would still have to > make a connection somewhere in europe or the US. >