OFSO - without doubt, travelling by Eurostar / TGV is far more civilised than O'Leary Airways - I speak as someone who has travelled from London to Hong Kong entirely by train (it seemed like a good way to spend the 2 months between the end of university and starting a real job)
However, to travel from central London to central Girona, going via Stansted takes aprrox half the time and, if you can manage without checking in luggage, cost including going to+from airport is about 40% cheaper, hence the reason why many people continue to put up with all the cattle class grief.
09:17 from St Pancras to arrive in Girona at 20:08 or departing Girona at 09:44 to arrive at St Pancras at 19:39 effectively uses up the whole day with travelling.
Add the 30 min check-in at St Pancras and we get to 10h21 or 10h55 one-way. Absolutely charming the 1st or 2nd time you do it. Gets to be a bit of a drag eventually.
Flight takes about 2 hours. 1 hour from cental London to Stansted. 1 hour for check in. 1 hour to get out of Girona airport into the centre of town. You end up with just 5 hours by air rather than over 10 hours by train.
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 20th Jan 2013 at 21:37.