Zach1213

I wouldn't trust them. Nothing against NCL, but as the traveler it's in your best interest to have all of the info confirmed. You do still have a Southwest confirmation code somewhere. If NCL won't provide that to you, that's ridiculous. I guess call Southwest, but really NCL should be giving the info to you since you paid for them to procure it. Even at the airport, most check-in is done via kiosk and it would behoove you to have that information. I don't know much about Southwest, so can't comment on what NCL says. It does sound odd. Have you actually seen this policy stated anywhere or is that just was a random person at NCL told you?

As FlyerTalker said, we need some clarification as to what locator NCL gave. Is it for an NCL cruise reservation, or is it specific to the flight? In either case, if it's not working and you don't see any other locater attached to the flight portion, you'll probably need to reach out to NCL as the travel agent for your flight (which essentially they are) to get that so you can verify everything is correct, and that you can check in ahead of time.

Keep in mind "better deal" and "lower price" can be very different things. London City doesn't have any flights outside of Europe. Lithuania and Greece are the furthest you can get. MAN has had a sudden explosion of longhaul routes over the last week or two, but almost exclusively going east and not west. The UK is still extremely focused on LHR/LGW, and even EDI has relatively few longhaul flights (and even fewer that are offered year-round).

Maybe it's my jet lag, but am I misunderstanding your statement? Because I'm just wondering in what world BHX is even remotely an option for people coming from across the Atlantic. There are one or two seasonal flights by TUI to holiday destinations in North America, and nothing to any major cities in North America (not even New York). Heathrow has more flights across the Atlantic in an hour than BHX has in a month. Rail/bus connectivity around the UK makes no difference if you can't actually get there.

Oh don't get me wrong, Air Canada is notorious for having delays. I think they're worst in North America amongst major airlines. But per the latest statistics they're only late 43% of the time, not 100% 😉

I love the idea that someone thinks a major global airline like Air Canada, with hundreds of planes and probably thousands of flights per day has a 100% delay rate.

Is this like a "all jets are planes, but not all planes are jets" kind of thing? God bless cruiseline flights..."Let's see, they're flying between New York and London, one of the busiest longhaul air routes in the world with countless options...so of course we need to route them through Quebec". The first person to ever kill a person in a plane crash, be careful

I'm going to go forward with assumption that it's a flight to the US. But technically, yes, if you set up a private ride and get yourself off the ship quickly, you should make it okay. Always a risk, of course. I personally would stay an extra night just to get an extra day of vacation and sightseeing, or just relaxing with a few final pints and teas, but to each their own. I also don't love the idea of ending my vacation with a "I sure hope everything is on time and I make my international flight that will be expensive to rebook if I miss it" nervous energy.

Each person's experience is going to be different because the cruiseline is going to put you on the cheapest option they can. So even if someone were flying from YYC to KEF on subsequent days, they may end up on entirely different itineraries via entirely different airlines, cities, and layover times. There's not really any consistency, unfortunately, so each person's experience will differ. One of the drawbacks of putting others in control of your flights is that you have no control of your flights.

I think (and my experience as a OneWorld frequent flier has shown me) that it's just flat out against the rules of all OneWorld carriers, be it AS/AA/BA, Qantas, Finnair, JAL, whomever.

Whether it's an advantage or not is up to each individual person, but one cool think about 11 hours in IST is that you could get out and see a bit of one of the greatest cities in the world.

I have no experience taking any shuttle, but I wanted to clarify that AA leaves out of Terminal 3, not Gate 3. Aerotel is indeed inside Terminal 3, so that makes it very convenient. BUT, are you planning to spend the whole day there AND the overnight? It's a place to sleep, but not much else. The only real food options will be those in the terminal themselves (and not only in terminal, but before security) so that will limit things a lot and raise the food cost.

I'm still intrigued as to what exactly you expected "comfort" to mean? The website is pretty clear about what you get.

Just don't overthink it. We're happy to help, but LHR is a pretty well-signed airport and people from all over the world, from rural Africa to New York to Tokyo, transit through it every day just fine. Overthinking it can only cause trouble!

Also make sure you book it as one ticket so you are protected in case of mis-connection at (what I assume will be) Narita or Haneda. And try to avoid having to go between Narita and Haneda unless you have a good amount of time...and still, make sure it's one ticket. More details would be beneficial.

Ah interesting, wasn't aware the UK had a legal definition of city based on population. So yeah, I guess Bath barely qualifies.

First off, it's not magic, it's the hard work of a crew of airline and airport employees and a fantastic piece of engineering in the form of T5's baggage system. Anyways...when you clear immigration and customs at LHR T5, I believe you take a right and just keep walking and keeping an eye out for signs that say Sofitel (or "Hotel", I can't remember which). You'll likely need to grab an elevator/lift up a level, but even in the elevator there will be a button that says either "Sofitel" or "Hotel", and more signage once you get out.

Now I'm just so intrigued what your definition of both "southern England" and "city" are. The only one of those in the south is Bath, and while it's lovely, it's not a "city" in my book.

Oh, I'm aware. My wife spent some time living in London and it's entirely different living there than visiting there. Still a pretty great city to live in, but of course no city is perfect or even near perfect. There are plenty of great cities in GB, I am just curious to see what city OP says is better than London in southern England. And what their definition of "city" really is.

Google Maps works well for this too. You can zoom in to London and just type "hotel" and a million will pop up along with their Google reviews rating (1-5). Then you can select a hotel and link directly to it for booking. It'll also give you a good idea of tube and bus stops nearby. I'm really curious what city is better than London for a visit when it comes to southern England. Bristol? Luton?

Yeah, I usually find that the operating carrier rules over the cabin baggage and there's little wiggle room on that part. I always plan my cabin baggage around the most restrictive carrier and would recommend you do as well.

INTL-INTL at AKL is pretty straight forward. Yes to security. No to immigration. No to customs. Three hours will leave you bored...won't take even a fraction of that time.

Eh, it's hard to tell. Depends so much on so many different things. For example, I've had to go to Seoul the last three months in a row, booking anywhere from three days out to 45 days out. Three days out was most expensive, 45 days out was middle, and two weeks out was the least expensive. But if I did the same series of bookings at the same intervals now, I wouldn't expect it to be the same order of pricing. It's just such a crap shoot.

Usually a lot more than that. I was paying $6-8k for roundtrips between the US and East and Southeast Asia back in the late-2000s when I started making regular trips between the two.

Uh, yeah. I know it's a different time of the year, but I recently booked MCI-ORD-HKG-SIN roundtrip in J for mid-March and it was like $12k.