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It sounds like you will need to make sure that Air France will also allow your machine on board the Athens-Paris and Paris-Boston flights, and that you also meet that airline's requirements for using it: the timings that you give appear to match flights AF1533 BOS-CDG and AF322 CDG-BOS. Different airlines and their regulators sometimes have different rules for what is permitted.

2E and 2F are on opposing sides of the spine of the Terminal 2 complex - see this Google map: https://goo.gl/maps/SzcMuMzjXWP9gej99 - T2F is above the spine and T2E is below it. Measuring suggests that the distance between them is in the order of a few hundred metres - obviously much depends on where your two aircraft will be.

https://sunflight.org/ says all in daylight, 66% sun on the left, 34% sun on the right (towards the end of the flight). I don't know how much maintenance is done on that site now, but I suspect that the basics are unlikely to be far wrong.

I wonder if there's a problem with dates. I think that the OP means 2 August to 6 August, but over here those dates look like 8 February to 8 June. That length of stay might well cost $1,300 in a Premier Inn. A moment's search on the Premier Inn website (which is, according to the ads I hear, the only place to book them) shows prices from £700 for the County Hall location and from £570 for the Westminster Abbey bigger room.

I do hope not. Otherwise I've been doing it wrong for decades.

I can't see how Pride would have any effect on a transfer from Southampton to Heathrow. And Red Rock Feaver's flight isn't until 14.40 anyway.

The difficulties of doing so can be exaggerated. Every day, countless thousands of people travel with their luggage on trains of these kinds all around London and up and down the country. Although the commuter trains between London and Southampton have no dedicated luggage space, there will be plenty of space so long as you're not trying to do the journey during peak hours in the direction of the peak traffic (which is very tidal). There are some Tube journeys which would be more difficult with luggage because you would have to carry it up and down stairs with no assistance from lifts (elevators) or escalators. Also, safely wrangling luggage on escalators involves some situational awareness. But there are plenty of Tube journeys which are absolutely straightforward with luggage. Outside peak hours, there is usually plenty of space for luggage. On some trains (for example, the Piccadilly Line) there is space that is designed for luggage, even though it is not dedicated to it. What is incontestable is that if you want an easy life, a door-to-door car transfer would fit the bill. But that privilege has to be paid for.

2EF are "occupied" on both the BA289 and the AA7000 seat maps above, so they may well be yours. But you should be able to check this on each airline's website if you have the correct booking references for both the AA booking and the BA booking.

Did you ask to have seats allocated? The second seat map I posted above is for AA7000 on 1 July 2023. It was taken live at the time of my post. As you can see, it's the same seat map as for the prime flight number BA289, including which seats are occupied or not.

What did BA say when you called? I don't understand why there should be two different seating charts, because both the BA prime flight number (BA289) and the AA codeshare number (AA7000) are displaying the same seating chart at the moment: Departing LHR on 01/07/23 for PHX Flying BA flight 289 in Business/Club A E F K 1 - - - - 2 + - - + 3 - - - + 4 - - - + 5 - - - + 6 + - - + 7 + - - + A E F K A E F K 10 X - - X 11 + + + + 12 + + + + 13 + + + + 14 + - - + A E F K Departing LHR on 01/07/23 for PHX Flying AA flight 7000 in Business/2-Cabin US First A E F K 1 - - - - 2 + - - + 3 - - - + 4 - - - + 5 - - - + 6 + - - + 7 + - - + A E F K A E F K 10 X - - X 11 + + + + 12 + + + + 13 + + + + 14 + - - + A E F K Seats Premium Only P Available + Handicap-Accessible H Paid & Premium # Occupied - Blocked X Lavatory L Paid $ Location Exit Row E Wing W Upper Deck U

Yes, undoubtedly they are - it's why they are happy to sit in the feeder park for 2 or 3 (or more) hours just to get one fare from the airport. But AIUI there's a system at Heathrow that means that if the cab does a short trip to somewhere close by and gets back to the terminal within a specified period of time (IIRC, something like 45 or 60 minutes), it can go straight to the terminal and skip the feeder park queue. So you don't need to worry about what the cabbie thinks about a short trip, which they're legally required to do in any event. There is a cohort of cabbies that don't like the feeder park at all, and so if they've dropped someone off at the airport, they will simply drive empty back into town.

Technically, the Elizabeth Line isn't part of the Tube (= London Underground), but a different railway service that's also operated for Transport for London. That's normally just a geek's complaint about nomenclature, but Elizabeth Line rolling stock is very different from Tube trains and much more like surface commuter trains. (It even has a British Rail Class number: Class 345.) For passengers, it's more comfortable and more luggage-friendly than the Piccadilly Line trains that form the Tube service to Heathrow. Normally, all Elizabeth Line trains departing from Heathrow will be heading to Abbey Wood and will therefore call at Woolwich. However, I don't know whether taxis are readily available at or near Woolwich Elizabeth Line station. However, for anyone who's prepared to head to Greenwich by rail and wants to start with the Elizabeth Line, another option is Elizabeth Line to Canary Wharf, then DLR to either Cutty Sark or Greenwich (depending on where in Greenwich you want). The change at Canary Wharf is best done by a short walk to West India Quay DLR, then taking a southbound train one stop to Canary Wharf DLR, then a cross-platform change to a Lewisham train. (In the weekday morning peak there are now a few trains direct from WIQ to Lewisham, but usually you need to do that very simple change at CW.) Back to the OP's original question: I think that Bolt is a competitor to Uber, and therefore probably suffers from many of the same problems as Uber. You want cheap, you'll get cheap. In contrast, the car service "usual suspects" are specialists in airport transfers and most of the drivers know the relevant roads really well, including where the usual problems are and how to get around them.

To spare MAVIP's blushes, I saw the website calendar listing there before that initial post, but wasn't able to post until after MAVIP had already beaten me to it. The entry wasn't magically added this morning!

For completeness, the cap is the same amount even if you take the (cheaper) Tube option. However, the Tube is only £5.60 each way, so if you do only those two Tube journeys then you would spend less than the cap. All these prices and caps are also applicable if you pay with an Oyster card, although there's little reason why you would want to do that. The cap amount that gumshoe958 quotes assumes that you don't travel in any Zones further outside London than Heathrow (Zone 6) during peak hours. But again, given what you want to do, there's little reason why you would. Applying the same cap to use the Elizabeth Line is a bit of an oddity, because TfL has to pay a per-passenger fee to Heathrow to use Heathrow's railway tunnel. This is why the one-way Elizabeth Line journey costs £7.70 more than the Tube journey: it's a flat-rate surcharge for going through the Heathrow tunnel. The £14.90 cap is quite a bargain for the passenger; but it's probably not so good for the taxpayer! Even if you don't go back to Heathrow, the next journey in town will inevitably see you hitting the cap. I wouldn't be surprised if that were to change in the future.

It's more of a problem with the underlying architecture, isn't it? That's what's decades old, and that's what tends to limit what can be done in any situation in which interlining may be relevant (even if many individual bookings within that architecture don't involve interlining).

You can only book train tickets a maximum of three months in advance. So if you (SakeDad) have been looking for July 2023, you're too early.

If you want an easy transfer, staying at the Hilton Garden Inn at Terminal 2 would be an obvious way to reduce the hassle of transferring to/from an off-airport hotel.

There's a misconception that there's no risk of "lost" luggage if you check it in for only one flight. Any time you check in a bag, there's some risk of it being mishandled. If you don't check it all the way through, so that it has to be checked in and delivered twice instead of once, it sort of doubles some of the risks of the bag being mishandled. In my view, you're definitely better off through-checking it.

That's over-cautious, judging by banks' experience in the UK. When contactless came in, the transaction limit was £30. Any transaction over that limit had to be verified by PIN. The fear was that if higher value transactions could simply be tapped, that would be exploited by a thief who'd stolen a card. These fears were exaggerated. UK banks' actual experience with fraud (or the low level of it) meant that the transaction limit has been raised to the current level of £100. The benefits of a higher transaction limit clearly outweigh any extra risk from fraud, and there is plenty of other security in place even if you make a contactless transaction. I believe that there are other countries where the contactless limit is even higher than £100. Certainly there is no need to PIN every transaction when contactless is perfectly good - both for the cardholder and for the bank.

If you mean National Express, remember that this doesn't go to Victoria Station. It goes to Victoria Coach Station, which is the best part of a half-mile walk to Victoria Station. If you want to stay at the Clermont Victoria and you want "way cheaper", I'd suggest taking the Tube from Heathrow to Victoria. It's only £5.60 (using Oyster or contactless), there's step-free access at both ends, one easy cross-platform change at Barons Court, and you will be mere yards from the hotel entrance when you get to Victoria Station.

This is now very rare. Part of the culture change in moving away from cash to contactless cards was removing the inhibition (on both sides of the counter) against tapping for tiny amounts - even just for a few pence.

Off the top of my head, the obvious public transport options are: 1. Train (Heathrow Express or Elizabeth Line) from Heathrow to London Paddington, then train from Paddington to Bath Spa. 2. Railair bus from Heathrow to Reading, then train from Reading to Bath Spa. I think that there are also a few direct National Express coaches from Heathrow to Bath, and a few more indirect routes via Bristol (requiring a change onto a local bus). But the low frequency makes this less appealing. And if you have to change, you might as well take the train.

As far as I can see, this is all within the same terminal (JFK Terminal 4), so there shouldn't be a need for you to do anything other than go to the gate for your onward JFK-VCE flight. No security, no baggage collection.

Schedule changes at this time of the year were always common. I still sometimes have a laugh with my (then) travel agent about some of the wacky things that happened during schedule change seasons back in the 1990s. It's a pity that CC has moved to this new software, because otherwise it would have been so easy to link to dozens of old threads complaining about significant schedule changes that wrecked people's plans - changes that were much more than 5 or 10 minutes.

What do you mean by "all set"? The fact that you've had a recent schedule change during schedule change season suggests that the chances of another change (or even a cancellation) are now smaller than they were, but it could yet happen. You know that you're ticketed if you have a ticket number. This will be 13 digits long, all numerical. Cruise line-booked air travel often doesn't ticket your flights until just a few weeks before travel, because that's basically the time when the the cruise line has to pay the airline for the air travel.