Not sure how it’s any more hassle than getting buses/trains to Heathrow tbh.
France bans short-haul flights to cut carbon emissions
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
I’d have to research it but think regional was long dead by then and just general fuckery with the platforms
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Am not against trains at all, but as Spymaster pointed out, for many folk outside of London Eurostar is often not the best option, especially now Ebbsfleet & Ashford have been binned off. There's a non-stop, direct bus from Guildford to Heathrow, that's a doddle. Personally I get a car service, front door to terminal and an Uber back home again, takes ~40 minutes each way, I can work in the car if I need to, with a BA silver card or business/first class flights check in and security takes less than 10 minutes, then it's off to the lounge for a drink and some food. It's far less stressful than when we go by Eurostar.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
That was one idea, but the main reason was HS1 rather than pootling through South London at 20mph...
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I'm not either, and wouldn't consider going from London to Paris any way other than Eurostar, but I live less than 15 minutes from St Pancras.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
It's not quicker or cheaper for sure (although sometimes there's not as much in it as you'd think) but it's much more pleasant for me (subjective I know...) and I do just think we need to cut down our travel so now I tend to travel less, go for longer when I do go, and accept it'll take more time and cost will be higher - although travelling less balances out the extra cost a fair bit.
I wouldn't be judgemental on those that make different choices though.
I've just booked to Berlin for 2 weeks in the late summer; back to Yorkshire all in one day, but getting there I have to stay in London the night before, but I'll do something nice that night so it's already part of the holiday. It was about £300ish return, but then it'll be my only overseas trip this year.
With trains it feels like my holiday starts when I walk out of my house, with flying it feels like my holiday starts when I'm out of the airport.
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Plastic Paddy
No. It was mainly for my convenience.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Yep. It's cost not time that's the issue for many people. York is one stop from King's Cross, then a couple of minutes walk to St Pan. It's easy peasy.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I took the train to York a few weeks ago. Two hours from King's Cross. Direct, no stops! It's like you're in France or something.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
There are plenty of reasons why you might take the train rather than fly. Misguided notions that you're doing something for the planet; romantic ideas of train travel based on The Orient Express, rather than the Avanti West Coast; or just old plain geekiness. The point is, for most, it's not cheaper, quicker, or easier.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Don't be telling me middle aged paunches and Y-fronts in your face on the tiny sleeper cabins across Europe isn't romantic?!
Afaik only Grand Central run that service. About 4 or 5 times a day and are prone to cancellations of late.
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Plastic Paddy
A colleague tells me she is off to Egypt on Sunday. Flight out is £11 flight back is £15.
That might just buy a single ticket by train Birmingham with a quid or two left over
Do you know who that’s with, hash tag?
hash tag
Reaching out
You really need to ask, it's not blindingly obvious?
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Plastic Paddy
Well I just checked Ryanair and EasyJet and it’s neither of those.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Are they actually paying that has the final price or is that just the base price not including such things as the "Add Processing Fee", "Add Airport Fee", "Add Baggage", "Add Pilots Fee", "Add an Actual Aircraft Fee" etc that tend to get magically added on a the last moment.A colleague tells me she is off to Egypt on Sunday. Flight out is £11 flight back is £15.
That might just buy a single ticket by train Birmingham with a quid or two left over
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
I did Dublin last week. The return flight was the same price as the taxi to the airport.A colleague tells me she is off to Egypt on Sunday. Flight out is £11 flight back is £15.
That might just buy a single ticket by train Birmingham with a quid or two left over
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I think she's winding you up. According to their website they're not flying to Egypt at the moment.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
It's Ryanair - they probably fly to the Cairo Gaza Strip airport.
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Plastic Paddy
My favourite Ryanair piss-take was when they used to advertise flights to Copenhagen, Denmark, but actually landed people in Malmo, which is in Sweden
hash tag
Reaching out
Nope. She fly's Sunday, returns the following weekend. She has a place out there and has been two or three times this year. She has possibly had 20 odd overseas breaks this year.
She knows what she is doing and how to get the cheapest of the cheap.
hash tag
Reaching out
There will be few fees to add on. The only luggage she will take is a very small bag.
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Plastic Paddy
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
They kind of do, but in association with other airlines. Meaning stopovers.
I agree it's more likely easyjet.
