Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Questions about NWA hotels. A NWA friend told me that they are often placed in airport hotels on international layovers. I find it a bit hard to believe they would stick them at the airport on 24 hour plus layovers. Anyone have the correct info? I hope this does not give Delta ideas!!!!
In general, airport hotels at NWA destinations cost MORE than a non-airport hotel plus transportation. At KIX (Osaka) we have a 55 minute bus ride to Kobe for the layover, However this may be construed as an airport hotel since its about a 10 minute ride from the Kobe Airport.
At NRT its a company "owned" hotel that is about a 25-30 minute bus ride, almost a sure bet that DL crews will move to the NWA layover hotel in NRT. Not sure if that will be an upgrade or not since its further from downtown. If you haven't seen the NW operation at NRT before you will be amazed. The only carrier at NRT with more "slots" than NWA is JAL...
HKG, MNL, SIN, BKK, PEK, NGO are all non-airport hotels and long layovers.
ICN is always a short layover so its at an airport hotel, but its a very nice Hyatt.
FRA, CDG, AMS, LHR, BOM are all non-airport hotels.
Your friend must be doing shorter layovers on the 757.
P.S. During times of political unrest/terrorism threats, NW will sometimes put as at "more secure" hotel locations than the normal layover hotels.