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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.

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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.
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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
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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.

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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
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