Re:Airbus thinks it has found a way to alleviate jet lag
by zemvpferreira on Sunday April 10, 2016 @04:34PM
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Thanks! My regular route is Lisbon -> Amsterdam -> San Francisco with KLM. It's 5 am flight with a 50 minute connection in AMS, but Schiphol is a wonderful airport, the dutch very helpful, and I quite like the old airplanes they use on this route. I can usually find a ticket for $700, too.
Pro:
- Decent almost business class for $1400 USD roundtrip
- You can buy single trips for 50% of the roundtrip cost
Con:
- Their irregular ops handling is disastrous. They use a small fleet of 787s for transatlantic flights, with zero spare capacity, so when a plane breaks somehow you basically have to wait for them to repair it. For that reason I avoid them on trips into the US (for planned meetings there) but sometimes use them on the way back.