UK’s Newcastle and Cardiff airports seek long haul flights
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From: Theo Markettos on 14 Jun 2010 17:53 In alt.travel.uk.air William Black <william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > I have 'right of residence' in India, my wife is Indian. > > There should be no problem, but I can't find where they sell the tickets. > > All I ever get offered is tickets on charter flights for holidays. Since the flights are all charters, I think that's all you're going to find. A randomly selected website from Google gave me: http://www.directline-holidays.co.uk/Goa%20Goa%20Flights Out 14th return 29th November quoted me GBP560pp on Thomas Cook airlines. Having said that, it can sometimes be cheaper to book accommodation as well as flight+hotel packages are more heavily discounted. For example, the same flight with a B&B hotel for 14 days is GBP592 for one person. If you hunt around for the lateminute discounted deals you can probably beat the flight-only price. There's nothing to say you have to stay in the hotel, of course. Theo
From: William Black on 14 Jun 2010 18:34 On 14/06/10 22:53, Theo Markettos wrote: > In alt.travel.uk.air William Black<william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >> I have 'right of residence' in India, my wife is Indian. >> >> There should be no problem, but I can't find where they sell the tickets. >> >> All I ever get offered is tickets on charter flights for holidays. > > Since the flights are all charters, I think that's all you're going to find. > > A randomly selected website from Google gave me: > > http://www.directline-holidays.co.uk/Goa%20Goa%20Flights > > Out 14th return 29th November quoted me GBP560pp on Thomas Cook airlines. > > Having said that, it can sometimes be cheaper to book accommodation as well > as flight+hotel packages are more heavily discounted. For example, the same > flight with a B&B hotel for 14 days is GBP592 for one person. If you hunt > around for the lateminute discounted deals you can probably beat the > flight-only price. > > There's nothing to say you have to stay in the hotel, of course. Maximum duration 31 days. I like to spend the winter months in India... -- William Black These are the gilded popinjays and murderous assassins of Perfidious Albion and they are about their Queen's business. Any man who impedes their passage does so at his own peril.
From: Mizter T on 14 Jun 2010 19:06 On Jun 14, 9:00 pm, William Black <william.bl...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > On 14/06/10 17:30, Roland Perry wrote: > > > In message <hv5itu$6v...(a)news.eternal-september.org>, at 16:47:09 on > > Mon, 14 Jun 2010, William Black <william.bl...(a)hotmail.co.uk> remarked: > > >>> For example, from Manchester you can fly direct to Cancun, but not > >>> Mexico City or Guadalajara; or to Goa, but not Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, > >>> Delhi etc. > > >> The last time I tried you couldn't buy a direct flight from Manchester > >> to Goa unless you also bought a holiday there as well... > > > The airlines concerned will normally sell seat-only (I've bought such > > from two of them). Maybe it's something to do with the Indian Tourist > > Visa, and they'll only get one for you if they can fill in the "where > > I'm staying" stuff for you. I was in India a couple of weeks ago, but on > > a conference visa. > > I have 'right of residence' in India, my wife is Indian. > > There should be no problem, but I can't find where they sell the tickets. > > All I ever get offered is tickets on charter flights for holidays. Thomson Airways are flying weekly on Tuesdays direct from Manc to Goa and v.v. during the winter season (specifically the beginning of November to the end of April), the timetable can be seen here: http://flights.thomson.co.uk/thomson/en-GB/timetable/findbyroute?departure=MAN&destination=GOI They're also happy to sell you the flights directly. Skyscanner and Momondo pick up on the existence of them, though they both only show Thomson as the vendor (i.e. no-one else shows as selling seats on these flights, not yet at least), buy Kayak doesn't know about them. I did look at the wikipedia entry for Manchester airport and saw that it states that Monarch apparently fly (or flew) direct to Goa, so maybe they aren't doing so this year and Thomson have jumped in, or maybe Monarch are flying a charter but it's all a bit hush hush and only for package holidayers, anyhow I had no luck on looking at the Monarch website for info on this possibility. So I'll admit I then just googled "manchester to goa direct flights" and one of the three sponsored results at the top of the page was from Thomson advertising their flights - voila, advertising works. Except in this case it doesn't quite as I'm not about to book a flight to Goa, and I'm not sure anyone else here is either!
From: William Black on 14 Jun 2010 19:21
On 15/06/10 00:06, Mizter T wrote: Except > in this case it doesn't quite as I'm not about to book a flight to > Goa, and I'm not sure anyone else here is either! I'm certainly booking a flight to India this year, but I intend to end up in Bombay. On the other hand I rather like spending a night on the Mandovi Express... -- William Black These are the gilded popinjays and murderous assassins of Perfidious Albion and they are about their Queen's business. Any man who impedes their passage does so at his own peril. |