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Old August 29th, 2012, 11:29 PM posted to rec.travel.air
bill
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:03:51 +0100, "Jake"
wrote:


"Bill" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:18:01 +0100, "Jake"
wrote:


It's a lot cheaper to fly with KLM from LBA-AMS and take advantage of the
range of non UK APD flights available from Schiphol than it is to make
your
way from there to Heathrow/Gatwick.

None APD?

What do you do?

Overnight on a bench at Schiphol or take the risk that your connecting
flight will happen on schedule?


You take the risk of course, building longer into your schedule. And why not
overnight at Schiphol if it saves you a packet?


Sounds like you don't do much flying.

I have no wish to make a £500 bet on my arrival when flying to the Far
East...

I'm way past the age when sleeping on a chair in an airport is in any
way entertaining and that amount of money won't get you a night in an
airport hotel.

It's just not worth it if you're having a couple of weeks on the beach
in Spain or Italy and when you're going to India or China and you
already have transport laid on and hotels booked the chaos caused by
missing a flight isn't worth the sixty or seventy quid you save.

Nope, you're talking ********...
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Old August 30th, 2012, 09:10 AM posted to rec.travel.air
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Default Fourth London airport

"Jake" wrote in message
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"Bill" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:18:01 +0100, "Jake"
wrote:


It's a lot cheaper to fly with KLM from LBA-AMS and take advantage of the
range of non UK APD flights available from Schiphol than it is to make
your
way from there to Heathrow/Gatwick.

None APD?

What do you do?

Overnight on a bench at Schiphol or take the risk that your connecting
flight will happen on schedule?


You take the risk of course, building longer into your schedule. And why not
overnight at Schiphol if it saves you a packet?

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As the saving might only be 54 pounds, that doesn't seem to be worth it!



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Old September 2nd, 2012, 07:45 AM posted to rec.travel.air
A Guy Called Tyketto
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Bill wrote:
Any one got any ideas or alternatives to either a third Heathrow
runway (Gawd help us all, a bigger and even less efficient Heathrow)
or 'Boris Island' in the Thames Estuary, which would cost as much as
our nuclear deterrent replacement...


You have a fourth London airport, at least according to the IATA:

http://www.theage.com.au/travel/trav...809-23w0a.html

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