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Re:The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Br... by lukas099 on Saturday October 14, 2023 @10:09PM (#37886211)
Maybe a small airline could analyze demographics of certain routes/times and carve out a niche serving upper class clientele or something.
Re:The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Br... by d1str0 on Saturday October 14, 2023 @10:18PM (#37886275)
And London to LA or NY are definitely routes with that demographic.
Re:The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Br... by sgjohnson on Saturday October 14, 2023 @10:44PM (#37886405)
The last all-business-class flight that served London to NY (BA1/BA2) was shut down in 2020.

It flew from LCY to JFK with a stop at Shannon in Ireland for quick refuelling and US Immigration preclearance (so you landed in NY like it was a domestic flight). It was an Airbus A318 in a 32 (if I remember correctly) all business class configuration.

Re:The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Br... by pcl on Saturday October 14, 2023 @11:06PM (#37886509)
It stopped in Shannon to refuel, since LCY is too short for commercial transatlantic hardware to take off with enough fuel. The customs clearance in Ireland was a smart way to take advantage of the stop to make things less painful in New York.
Re:The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Br... by userinanother on Saturday October 14, 2023 @11:12PM (#37886526)
Brexit probably killed it
Re:The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Br... by sgjohnson on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:16AM (#37889127)
Nothing to do with Brexit at all, since Brexit had 0 impact on travel between the UK and the US, or on air travel between the UK and Ireland for that matter, because neither of those countries were in the Schengen area.

Covid killed the flight.

Re:The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Br... by userinanother on Sunday October 15, 2023 @04:49PM (#37893271)
Brexit killed England as a financial center. That also impacted travel to the usa
Re:The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Br... by nemo on Saturday October 14, 2023 @10:21PM (#37886303)
The big airlines have business class and first class. You can pay more for a nicer experience now if you want now, hard to see being able to run a first-class only airline.
Re:The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Br... by toomuchtodo on Saturday October 14, 2023 @10:53PM (#37886455)
Re:The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Br... by _ks3e on Saturday October 14, 2023 @11:36PM (#37886638)