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On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:03:51 +0100, "Jake"
wrote: "Bill" wrote in message .. . 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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"Jake" wrote in message
... "Bill" wrote in message ... 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? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the saving might only be 54 pounds, that doesn't seem to be worth it! |
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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 BL. -- Brad Littlejohn | Email: Unix Systems Administrator, | Web + NewsMaster, BOFH.. Smeghead! | http://www.wizard.com/~tyketto PGP: 1024D/E319F0BF 6980 AAD6 7329 E9E6 D569 F620 C819 199A E319 F0BF |
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