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There's a proper taxi rank at the station. I'm not 100% sure where it is now, but the National Rail website suggests that it's near the high-numbered platforms. If the Elizabeth Line is still using the mainline platforms when you come (which it's expected to until late autumn 2022), then that's the correct end of the station. A cab is required to take you on this journey. If you genuinely have lots of luggage, the cabbie will understand.

That would be Terminal 3. At the moment Malaga flights are operating at Terminal 5. Although this seems unlikely to change before late October at the earliest, I think it's just too early even to guess what the situation will be in mid-November.

"British Air"? Who they? 😉 In Nashville, BA appears to use the American Airlines Admirals Club: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/28119424-post7.html In London, assuming that you are not a higher-tier frequent flyer, you will have access to the Galleries Club lounges. In Terminal 5 (assuming your flight will depart from there), there are three of them: one at the north end of the main building, on the same level as security; one at the south end of the main building, accessed from gate level (one floor below security - then you have to go up two floors); and one in the Terminal 5B satellite where the B gates are (but I would recommend that you don't go there unless your onward flight is confirmed to be departing from a B gate, or you learn the geography of all the lesser-known walking routes through the whole terminal complex). AIUI, you should have access to the Admirals Club in Tampa because you are on an international business class itinerary, but I'm less sure about this. I know someone who will know.

You have just described the hub-and-spoke system in a single sentence. You benefit from this: you have said so yourself.

There are your increased opportunities, right there. Without the hub and spoke system, you would simply have to drive to Denver to get a flight. (Or Dallas or Phoenix, if you had the stamina.) That was your own fault for booking a journey with four connections (which is borderline insanity), or allowing someone else to book your journey without clearly specifying what you were and were not prepared to put up with.

I've learned something new today. And I lived in an adjacent area for over a decade!

For my own part, my apologies for trying to correct the (common) misconception that "the first airline's allowance governs the whole ticket".

In part, because the UA website seems to give misleading information. If it's wrong (and it immediately looks wrong to me), it's hardly surprising if passengers get confused. Using the calculator and inputs of FRA-IAD in "Business or First", the website returns: General and non-members in Business or First cabin 1st Bag 2nd Bag Weight per bag Standard: $0 Prepaid: $0 Standard: $0 Prepaid: $0 50lbs (23kgs) Below that, it says (when you open the drop-down): Overweight bags $200 extra per bag 51 to 70 lbs (24 to 32 kg)

It's a bit more complicated than this. For this itinerary (because it ends in the US), assuming that the bags are checked at AMS and next collected in the US: First, you have to identify the first marketing carrier. This is the airline whose code appears for the first sector on your ticket (which may not be the operating airline). Then you have to find out whether that airline has chosen to use IATA's Most Significant Carrier rule, or to apply its own baggage rules. If the choice is to use the MSC rule, then the MSC is the airline that operates the flight from Europe to the US (FRA-IAD in this case), and that airline's baggage rules apply. For the OP, this may all end up coming to the same result. But "it's the rules of the first operating airline" is a misleading summary that's sometimes wrong and can therefore cause problems. Fortunately, in most cases the ticket will clearly show the correct result. Stepping back, I'd be very surprised if the correct result is anything other than what 6rugrats has said. But in that case, the UA website does seem to be baffling.

In your opinion, based on your extensive and in-depth knowledge of how the industry works? Repeating the same old stuff on thread after thread in this forum doesn't make it any more true.

Yes - think of it as the industry's equivalent of long Covid.

Well, it's the Daily Mail, innit?

And your point is? Airlines all over the world are having big problems at the moment. So are airports. None of this is news (at least to anyone who reads news). This is happening to both government-owned and privately-owned companies alike (as well as non-air transport companies like cruise lines). So nationalising or regulating airlines isn't going to achieve anything, let alone solve these problems. But to see that, you have to know a bit about what the industry's problems actually are, rather than just bleating "Waaah, I don't like it!" from the narrow point of view of a passenger.

Welcome back! There really wasn't much going on here for a long time, and I'm only back myself because of a possibility that we might do a cruise this year. But that plan has hit a date clash, so you may all be rid of me again for a while.

Friday morning, 2 September 2022? I reckon that from near Tower Bridge, this will probably take you closer to 2½ hours by road because you're starting from the "wrong" side of central London. If you're already inside the Congestion Charge zone, so that you have to pay that £15 extra simply to get picked up, then a bit of time might be saved by taking a route that goes through the centre of town. But going around the eastern edge of the CC zone is unlikely to be fast on a Friday morning. Schools will have re-started the previous day so those who have children will already be back from their summer holidays.

The shady side. Sadly, sunflight.net seems to be down at present.

Moored for about 55 minutes!

I haven't yet come out of the Elizabeth Line deep platforms at Paddington myself, but there will be step-free access to mainline station level. You should be able to get between street level and the deep platforms by lift (elevator) at both Canary Wharf and Paddington. When you get to mainline station level at Paddington, you will be near platform 1. As things stand, the Heathrow Express normally uses platforms 6 and 7; if you want to continue on the Elizabeth Line, departures to Heathrow normally use platform 11. I think that Elizabeth Line rolling stock is actually just as luggage-friendly as the Heathrow Express. The whole system has been designed for accessibility.

Then you should know better than to suggest to the public that they have a contractual entitlement to the times published in schedules. So what? Airlines have to overbook flights, otherwise they would go out half empty (and fares would have to be double what they are). Airlines don't like to oversell flights, because that costs them a lot of money, but the random nature of the business means that it does sometimes happen.