which airline to fly on

the plan is to go from heathrow-san francisco, san fran to Washington, Washington to Boston and on to New York and back to Heathrow. United is coming out the cheapest at 750 per person, but having never flown them was wondering if they are any good.
They have told me that it will be a 777 outbound and a mix of A320,319;s internaly and a 767 back, do United operate the 747 in to heathrow and I thought we would be coming back on a 777 not a 767.

I think UA only operate the 747 to IAD from LHR.

I’m flying LHR/SFO with VS on 26th August and I chose Virgin because they were fantastic when I last flew to EWR with them. I cannot wait to fly with them again.

All UA 3-class 767’s and 777’s have PTV’s. The 744’s do not. UA’s in-flight product is just fine. DL’s is slowly going down the tubes.

Actually , I flew UA on last march , and the 763 had PTV’s.

UA is fine… Better still if you can get economy plus (not bookable, but extra legroom seats usually given to frequent flyers) – its available on both their long haul and domestic aircraft. 777s have PTVs, but I believe that the 767s don’t. Long domestics you’ll also get a movie, and UA are the only major in the US that doesn’t charge for headseats on domestics.

VS have better in-flight entertainment (at least on most of the aircraft) but IMHO the legroom is worse and the meals were very cheap and nasty.

BA are just BA… Can be good, can be aloof, can be poor. Much of a lottery.

Overall, I’d choose UA, partly for the flight, partly because I get frequent flyer points on Star Alliance!

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I’m flying UA since 15 yeasr now without any trouble.

Like I said, UA are good. The IFE is good, cant really fault them on much apart from the fact that the 777 we went on’s interior wasnt great. Other than that they are good. But overall BA were better. Crew were friendlier, much better interior and everything seemed much cleaner! Better meals in flight too, the UA ones were terrible.

7 years ago, i did a similar trip, I booked BA LHR-SFO, UA SFO-EWR and BA EWR-LHR.

As it turned out, the LHR-SFO flight was cancelled because of the Cabin Crew strike at the time, and I was rebooked BA LGW-PIT and US PIT-SFO.

Nothing wrong with that Itinerary, but I’d suggest that for an itinerary like yours, you may want to consider a return ticket with United, with a stopover on the way back in New York, which may well prove to be the cheapest option.

the plan is to go from heathrow-san francisco, san fran to Washington, Washington to Boston and on to New York and back to Heathrow. United is coming out the cheapest at 750 per person, but having never flown them was wondering if they are any good.
They have told me that it will be a 777 outbound and a mix of A320,319;s internaly and a 767 back, do United operate the 747 in to heathrow and I thought we would be coming back on a 777 not a 767.

i just came off a 747 of BA yesterday returning from my trip (MIA-LHR) and even though it was a night flight it was very good.

only a BA 744 out of those and it was not bad. I did JFK-LHR in 2000 and i actually felt calm

I have flown on both BA’s 747’s and UAL’s 777’s. The BA 747 I flew on was excellent. Being English I would fly on BA, but UAL are excellent too. Dont forget though, UA offer a “listen in” feature on their IFE and you can listen to the pilots on one of the channels which is quite cool. It is set to COM1 I think all of the time, and can be interesting. I would say BA had better quality and overall BA were better, but listening to the pilots was excellent with UA.

7 years ago, i did a similar trip, I booked BA LHR-SFO, UA SFO-EWR and BA EWR-LHR.

As it turned out, the LHR-SFO flight was cancelled because of the Cabin Crew strike at the time, and I was rebooked BA LGW-PIT and US PIT-SFO.

Nothing wrong with that Itinerary, but I’d suggest that for an itinerary like yours, you may want to consider a return ticket with United, with a stopover on the way back in New York, which may well prove to be the cheapest option.