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Actually, yes, some other airlines do. But seeing as we've established that Delta's Comfort Plus is only a "scam" in that the name's a bit of marketing exuberance, rather than because Delta tells any untruths about what you're actually getting (which is just an economy seat), we may as well leave that there.

And in other news, tomorrow the sun will rise in the east. Just what did you think you were going to get when you bought Comfort Plus? Did you think you were going to get anything other than a standard economy seat with a bit more legroom? What made you think that? Did you even read the product description?

Which flight are you on? AA729 at 0945 or AA737 at 1300? If it's the later one, then I'd certainly echo what Zach1213 says. There really is no reason to hole up at the airport for 24 hours including overnight. Even if you're on the early one, there's a good argument for not wasting a day of your life there. There are a couple of other options for food, though, in addition to the landside stuff at T3. You can easily walk over to T2 (via the underground walkways) and use the landside food outlets there. Heathrow's website has lists of what's available in the terminals. Or you could go to the Hilton Garden Inn that's basically attached to T2, which I think has a restaurant and a couple of bars. If you take a train to T4 or T5, there are also hotels attached to each of these.

Do you have to do both London and Paris after the cruise? I don't know whether you're asking as part of planning for the end of your Norwegian Getaway trans-Atlantic cruise in April 2024. If you're doing a round-trip cruise from Southampton, then one approach would be to do London before the cruise and Paris after the cruise, although the details still depend on itinerary and cruise line.

As sddsddean has said, for some specific journeys such as Heathrow to Southampton, routing and frequency considerations mean that a direct National Express coach may be the best option for that journey. There are other journeys for which that is also true. Similarly, there are other journeys like central London to Southampton for which the train is clearly the best option for routing and frequency reasons. This reflects the fact that Heathrow is not in (or anywhere near) central London - that's the primary reason why the answers are different for these two different journeys. More generally, if both rail and road are viable and equally convenient routes for any particular non-local trip, rail will usually be faster, more predictable and more comfortable. This is why (as a massive generalisation) it tends to be more expensive to take the train than to take the coach. Central London to Southampton is an example of that. If you happen to be staying next door to Victoria Coach Station, then the National Express coach may be a decent option. But if it's equally convenient to get to London Waterloo (railway) station, and you're not having to watch every penny, the train will generally get you to Southampton more quickly and in more comfort.

If I recall correctly, these will say "Arrivals" and "Baggage reclaim".

I can't work out what's happened to cause one sector to be booked in economy. I'm only working with random dates, but even if I allow VCE-MAD to be priced in economy, specifying business for MAD-CLT-CLE forces VCE-MAD to be booked into business (and even then, that trick only produces an IB code for VCE-MAD, and it can't be booked on an AA code). So I think that you need to find out from AA what baggage allowance is written on your ticket for each of the sectors. I don't have a recent cash AA ticket receipt to look at so I don't know what they show and whether they should be explicit about the baggage allowance for each sector.

The obvious first guess is on that flight, business class has no availability in the booking class that you need. There are other possible reasons, but one would need to have a lot more information to try to work it out. Venice-Madrid and Madrid-Charlotte are both international, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can check any bags, let alone two. There are plenty of international fares that come with no checked bags, or with only one checked bag included. You have to find out what the included baggage allowance is for what you've bought, and in particular whether you'll have two bags even on the flight on which you're booked in economy, which may depend on the reason why you were booked in economy. But really you should have been told all this before you paid for the tickets.

I think that Iberia aircraft on this route should have business class, so if you have to fly economy you will want to check whether you have actually been booked on to a Vueling-operated flight. Whichever it turns out to be, your safest approach is to assume that each operator will apply its own rules for cabin baggage. In other words, organise yourself to comply with the most restrictive rules.

You could always just walk into Waterloo station and take your pick from any number of breakfast options there, like thousands of commuters do every day.

That definitely sounds like the best option from all those you've mentioned in this and your other thread.

I asked someone who flew from AMS on Friday afternoon about how the security queues were. Basic answer: "Queues? What queues?" That's because "Things are getting better" does not sell newspapers or online impressions. Just because nobody says that things are now back to normal, it doesn't mean that they aren't back to normal. After all, it would be surprising for the same things to be happening two years later.

No, it's not the proper term. This is because the Munich to Florence/Rome ticket will (on the basis of what you say) be a separate ticket. That means that technically, you are ending one journey at Munich and then starting a completely separate journey there that has nothing to do with your first journey. In contrast, if you have a through ticket for Charlotte-Munich-Florence/Rome, you are then truly connecting at Munich. This has practical consequences. Most importantly, if your Charlotte to Munich flight is late and you miss your Munich to Florence/Rome flight, then you've missed it and the airline won't be obliged to do anything for you (in the same way as if you'd simply overslept in Munich and missed that flight). In contrast, if you are connecting at Munich and you misconnect there because your first flight is late, the airline is legally obliged to reaccommodate you on an alternative flight(s) to get you to Florence/Rome. Depending on your attitude to risk and on what the consequences are of missing the second flight, you may therefore want to be more generous with the time between flights. And you will (as JM0115 rightly says) very probably have to clear immigration, collect your bags, clear customs (usually a formality), and then check in for the second flight before the time that check-in closes.

The current National Rail conditions of carriage (wef 6 February 2022) say: 23.1 You may take up to three items of luggage into the passenger accommodation of a train unless: 23.1.1 your luggage is such that it may cause injury, inconvenience or a nuisance or it may cause damage to property; 23.1.2 there is not enough room for it; 23.1.3 your luggage would obstruct doorways, gangways or corridors; 23.1.4 the loading or unloading may cause delay to trains; 23.1.5 your luggage is not carried or packaged in a suitable manner; 23.1.6 your luggage is one of the prohibited items shown in the list shown in 23.4 below; 23.1.7 a Train Company has set out any special conditions relating to the carrying of luggage on their own train services. In such cases these conditions will be made available when buying your Ticket in advance and will be shown on the Train Company’s website. I think that these default rules are in theory applicable to all the usual domestic train operating companies. (I haven't checked Eurostar's provisions.) In addition, some TOCs have set out special conditions. For example, LNER says "Please note we only allow three items per person. A maximum of one large suitcase, a carry on bag and small handbag can be brought onboard." The maximum size of the permitted suitcase (singular) is 90 x 70 x 30 cm. LNER is not alone, although it attracted adverse media attention at the time that it started publicising this (for example, this article - which also has interesting inaccuracies as well as photographic evidence of why the limits are sometimes needed). GWR also publicises limits: What you can bring small cases and bags. These can be kept under your seat medium-sized cases and bags. Perfect for overhead racks - just like on a plane larger items - up to 25 x 40 x 70cm is fine. These should be stored in the dedicated luggage areas If you can’t find any space on the train, speak to one of our on-board staff. We may have to store your luggage in a different carriage, so make sure you label and lock your cases. What you can’t bring more than 3 pieces of luggage. Or anything larger than 30 x 70 x 90cm anything that might cause an injury, obstruction, or damage luggage that might cause a delay when it’s being loaded and unloaded I think the TOC that is most likely to concern cruisers is SWR, which doesn't seem to publicise limits. And actual enforcement is another matter altogether (see a more sober specialist press article here). But whatever hilarious conclusions that previous thread reached, whenever it was, I think they must now be looked at in the light of these expressly-stated limits. I suspect that where cars are concerned, luggage is likely to bulk out before it weighs out. AIUI, this is common in the parcel business, too, both by air and road.

This is nothing to do with London-centricity, and everything to do with the nature of the trains that operate between London and Bath: they are long-distance trains, so after departing London Paddington their next stop is usually Reading, which is well to the west of Heathrow. So the effect you mention is simply the interaction between that and the nature of Heathrow <--> London Paddington trains, which are either a fast shuttle between those points only (Heathrow Express) or a commuter railway calling at many local stations between them, and beyond (Elizabeth Line). There has long been an alternative to the backtracking and re-tracing for passengers starting from Heathrow who want trains heading west: the Railair coach between Heathrow and Reading.

W5 is the Ealing postal district - so "W5" is almost a synonym for "Ealing", which (as I said) covers a large area. However, a full postcode is very specific. For example, W5 1LP (picked completely at random) comprises numbers 63, 65, 67, 69, 71 and 73 Meadvale Road, and only those six addresses. But you can see how far that is away from any public transport into town.

W5 doesn't itself narrow this down any further - here is a Google map that should show the boundaries of W5. Pitshanger Park is at the upper edge of W5, basically next to where it says "Brentham Garden Suburb". Great if you're visiting relatives nearby; not so great (to put it mildly and politely) if you're intending to sightsee in central London.

A cruise is not a prison, but if you are to disembark and leave the cruise at any port you have to comply with immigration and customs requirements at that port. It's not at all absurd that immigration and customs do not have the capacity to deal with someone who booked a cruise and now doesn't like the whole of the itinerary. Anyway, if you are still heading to Vienna directly from the cruise, HAL's answer has done you a favour by saving you some hassle. It is more difficult to get from Dover to Vienna than from Rotterdam to Vienna.

Only if you're close to a station. "Ealing" covers a large area, and if you're not close to a station but you want to sightsee in central London, transport to/from central London could, frankly, drive you nuts.

I have no personal experience of Alaska Airlines, but I did enjoy reading this Cranky Flier article: Why Doesn’t My Carry-On Fit In Alaska’s Bag Sizer?

In many cases, you can book it on the airline's website by simply constructing the same itinerary. Unfortunately, many airline websites can't handle any complexity, so if it's anything out of the ordinary then you may either have to call the airline to book it, or use a travel agent. This is because ITA Matrix basically runs using the same information that's available to airline agents and travel agents: it has schedule, fare and availability information, so it can price the itineraries that it can see. It can't see every piece of information or price every possible combination in every search, because the number of possible combinations makes that impossible to do while keeping the required computing power within bounds; in many ways, ITA is (and was from the beginning) an exercise in learning how to manage the inherently unmanageable. But if you repeatedly search using ever-increasing restrictions (which has the effect of limiting the number of combinations and therefore allows more accurate attempts to identify the lowest-priced), you can get better and better results. The power of ITA, and its big advantage over Google Flights, is in the number and type of restrictions that you can impose so that you can prioritise your personal preferences.

I think this is too harsh. Some people may legitimately feel uncomfortable giving these details. But it does mean that it substantially limits the assistance that can be given, particularly if nobody else can then check whether the problem is reproducible. At any rate, we now know that the route is RDU-DPS // SIN-RDU. And the dates seem to be in range for both the SQ and UA websites. A quick look on the UA website suggests that it will not offer SQ for the long-haul trans-Pacific flight (which may be because there seem to be no UA codes on these SQ-operated flights, so they would have to be fared using SQ fares), and the SQ website won't offer UA flights for domestic connections, as only B6 flights show up. But the SQ fares do exist because (as rinshin says) they can be priced on ITA Matrix. So this may be one that requires either a call to SQ, or a travel agent.

I wonder whether you're one day too early, for example if you need an onward flight to RDU that departs on the day after the long-haul from SIN, but the date of the long-haul is the last date that's within range today. Of course, because you haven't said what dates you're looking at, that's just a wild guess. Otherwise, I too am having no trouble getting a quote out of the UA website for RDU-DPS and back.

Dover is not London, and it takes a long time to get from Dover to Heathrow. You are better off disembarking in Rotterdam and taking a flight from Amsterdam, as Schiphol airport is pretty easy to get to from Rotterdam. I don't know what's "great" about those London flights, anyway. On 20 April 2024, there are 8 non-stop flights from Heathrow to Vienna, just as there are 8 non-stop flights from Amsterdam to Vienna on 21 April 2024.

The Amsterdam specialists will no doubt be along to add to this, but if you're going to Keukenhof then it seems to me that the buses are frequent enough to make this a decent plan. I think that the baggage storage location you want will be the one "before security", which is on level -1. So it'll be worth mentally noting exactly where that is and how to get to it.