UK's Newcastle and Cardiff airports seek long haul flights
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From: Roland Perry on 15 Jun 2010 06:55 In message <hv61ul$as2$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, at 21:03:31 on Mon, 14 Jun 2010, William Black <william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> remarked: >>>> The check-in time at Leeds wouldn't be three hours for a hop to London >>>> (regardless of where you go to afterwards) so you've got that sum >>>> backwards. >>> >>> The check-in time for international flights at Leeds, even if changing >>> at Heathrow, is three hours. >> >> In their dreams. When does check-in *close*? > >I have no idea, That's very helpful! Please post from at least a vague idea of the situation on the ground. >I do know that it once took me over two and a half hours to get to my >flight at Heathrow. I've had it take three hours at Gatwick - but only because they had a power cut that stopped the baggage belts working, and it was also a few days after the PANIC!! introduction of the original "no liquids" policy. >>> My route for the past two years has been Manchester to Paris and >>> onwards from there, all with Air France. >>> >>> My only issue so far has been the prices at CDG :-) >> >> I don't buy anything there. Simples. > >If you've got a five hour stop-over you would... > >Look at the flights from Bombay to Manchester via Paris... I've had major layovers at several airports (I think the record is about 10 hours at Dubai). If you've paid for a trip of that length, it's not that much of an imposition to pay five Euros for a sandwich every three or four hours. -- Roland Perry
From: William Black on 15 Jun 2010 09:21 On 15/06/10 11:55, Roland Perry wrote: > In message <hv61ul$as2$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, at 21:03:31 on > Mon, 14 Jun 2010, William Black <william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> remarked: > >>>>> The check-in time at Leeds wouldn't be three hours for a hop to London >>>>> (regardless of where you go to afterwards) so you've got that sum >>>>> backwards. >>>> >>>> The check-in time for international flights at Leeds, even if changing >>>> at Heathrow, is three hours. >>> >>> In their dreams. When does check-in *close*? >> >> I have no idea, > > That's very helpful! Please post from at least a vague idea of the > situation on the ground. Look, I read the guidance and turn up when they say. They say 'Three hours for international flights, even if changing in the UK'. I do what they tell me because I don't want to be messed about by the sort of jobs-worth numpty imbeciles that airlines employ at their check-in desks. >> I do know that it once took me over two and a half hours to get to my >> flight at Heathrow. > > I've had it take three hours at Gatwick - but only because they had a > power cut that stopped the baggage belts working, and it was also a few > days after the PANIC!! introduction of the original "no liquids" policy. The problem is you don't know when the security monkeys will decide to make life difficult again. >>>> My route for the past two years has been Manchester to Paris and >>>> onwards from there, all with Air France. >>>> >>>> My only issue so far has been the prices at CDG :-) >>> >>> I don't buy anything there. Simples. >> >> If you've got a five hour stop-over you would... >> >> Look at the flights from Bombay to Manchester via Paris... > > I've had major layovers at several airports (I think the record is about > 10 hours at Dubai). If you've paid for a trip of that length, it's not > that much of an imposition to pay five Euros for a sandwich every three > or four hours. It's still a hell of a price for a sandwich... And E5 for a litre of water is criminal... -- 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: Roland Perry on 15 Jun 2010 11:06 In message <hv7upd$9vc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, at 14:21:48 on Tue, 15 Jun 2010, William Black <william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> remarked: >>>>> The check-in time for international flights at Leeds, even if changing >>>>> at Heathrow, is three hours. >>>> >>>> In their dreams. When does check-in *close*? >>> >>> I have no idea, >> >> That's very helpful! Please post from at least a vague idea of the >> situation on the ground. > >Look, I read the guidance and turn up when they say. > >They say 'Three hours for international flights, even if changing in >the UK'. At Leeds? They are having a laugh (or a bad cut'n'paste day). Checking doesn't even *open* for most airlines (including BMI) operating from there until two hours before. >I do what they tell me because I don't want to be messed about by the >sort of jobs-worth numpty imbeciles that airlines employ at their >check-in desks. It's the numpty web content manager this time. >>> I do know that it once took me over two and a half hours to get to my >>> flight at Heathrow. >> >> I've had it take three hours at Gatwick - but only because they had a >> power cut that stopped the baggage belts working, and it was also a few >> days after the PANIC!! introduction of the original "no liquids" policy. > >The problem is you don't know when the security monkeys will decide to >make life difficult again. There's some truth in that. Although what generally happens is that planes leave late, rather than without half their passengers, if there's a big shout on. -- Roland Perry
From: William Black on 15 Jun 2010 13:17 On 15/06/10 16:06, Roland Perry wrote: > In message <hv7upd$9vc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, at 14:21:48 on > Tue, 15 Jun 2010, William Black <william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> remarked: > >>>>>> The check-in time for international flights at Leeds, even if >>>>>> changing >>>>>> at Heathrow, is three hours. >>>>> >>>>> In their dreams. When does check-in *close*? >>>> >>>> I have no idea, >>> >>> That's very helpful! Please post from at least a vague idea of the >>> situation on the ground. >> >> Look, I read the guidance and turn up when they say. >> >> They say 'Three hours for international flights, even if changing in >> the UK'. > > At Leeds? They are having a laugh (or a bad cut'n'paste day). Checking > doesn't even *open* for most airlines (including BMI) operating from > there until two hours before. I know, same in Manchester, but there's always a queue when the desk opens... > There's some truth in that. Although what generally happens is that > planes leave late, rather than without half their passengers, if there's > a big shout on. In my experience a Heathrow long haul flight leaves when its slot comes free. I was on one once when ten people missed it due to 'being held up in security'. -- William Black These are the gilded popinjays and murderous assassins of Perfidious Albion and they are about their Queen's business. Any man who impedes their passage does so at his own peril.
From: Roland Perry on 15 Jun 2010 16:32 In message <hv8ck5$vcd$3(a)news.eternal-september.org>, at 18:17:58 on Tue, 15 Jun 2010, William Black <william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> remarked: >> There's some truth in that. Although what generally happens is that >> planes leave late, rather than without half their passengers, if there's >> a big shout on. > >In my experience a Heathrow long haul flight leaves when its slot comes >free. > >I was on one once when ten people missed it due to 'being held up in >security'. Yes, but was that on a day when there was a suddenly increased security screen, so that everyone was taking longer. Or were they just the usual stragglers (Schiphol in the evening seems especially bad for them, my fairly regular flight to UK often leaves without one or passengers). -- Roland Perry
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