US flights

[mudz123]

Hello there, I have to fly to Detroit, from London, later this month for work. Business class direct flights are extortionately expensive, I am a OneWorld loyalist, I am looking for any suggestions on where it might be cheaper to fly business to the US, and I’ll buy domestic flights to Detroit from there. Does anyone here have any experience of doing this, and what might you suggest? Thank you again I’m a newbie here looking forward to engaging with you all

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[ChrisC]

There aren’t going to be many bargains at the moment to be honest.

I suggest you have a play around with google flights and try starting in places like DUB, INV, AMS, CDG, MAD and do it as an ex-EU trip – but again bargains might be on the sparse side as well.

And if you need to start at LHR look at flights to all the BA/AA/IB/AY US hubs like JFK, ORD, BOS, DFW etc and pick up a domestic from there.

Remember if you buy a separate domestic flights it’s unlkiely any bags will be checked through and US domestic schedules are having as much disruption as we are having in Europe

[dougzz99]

You’ll end up wasting a lot of time positioning and making connections. Right now any additional flight adds disproportionate risk. Detroit is Delta strongpoint from its Northwest hub days. I’m a big fan of ex-EU prices, but this is not a good time to be making unnecessary connections, especially on separate tickets.

[dougzz99]

For what it’s worth there are direct flights from Amsterdam to Detroit for £3700 later in July, with Delta. Are the company you work for aware of doing this. I only ask as I’m positive my manager would be very much against this, if you need to be there we need to pay would be his attitude. Realistically you need to go to AMS the day before, as the risk of same day connection on two tickets right now is a substantial. It’ll add the cost of an AMS hotel for the night.

I think hoping for a short notice deal on a particular alliance, and adding connections is a bit of a fantasy in the current market.

Good luck finding something.

[Lady London]

I agree with ChrisC and dougzz99. You want a direct flight if poss. If the price is substantially lower I would consider Eurostar to Paris as currently more reliable than air and they may have reinstated the few trains that used to stop at CDG airport before reaching Central Paris. However OW fron Paris will be rare as AF is allied with DL so after all that effort you might still find yourself flying back through London on BA due lack of OW choice! I suspect most corporate bossea woukd prefer you save the time.

If you do end up flying Delta from London or VS at least you have the Virgin Clubhouse to look forward to if in J

[thehornets]

I agree too. Pre-pandemic I flew to DTW often. Not only do you get Clubhouse access going outbound, but Delta is actually quite a good airline. They also have a great route network if you get delayed for any reason, so very easy to get home via other hubs such as NY, Boston, Atlanta or even Amsterdam as one of the previous posters mentioned. Then it’s an easy KLM cityhopper flight back to London.