I'd love to know more about that statement that people from Aberdeen are going to England connecting via Dundee and Amsterdam :-s
At first it seems confusing; and like a desperately long way round to go anyway! I could understand either going to Dundee or connecting via Amsterdam, but both? And when there's only one flight a day to Amsterdam doesn't that make the journey time likely to be either unviable or inconvenient? Where were they even booking these flights? They're not advertised as connections by FlyBe and I think I read there's no codeshare on the route apart from an airline that goes to the Mid East?
So I went off to prove to myself that this story seemed unlikely to be true, by trying to find a price for the most suitable possible journey.
It's clearly not London, as that would be silly. It's probably not somewhere in the North, as all the faffing would mean you'd be better driving the whole way. It's somewhere with slow train connections. And if cost is involved as a reason it could be somewhere involving Eastern Airways flights. So I thought maybe Cardiff, or perhaps Bristol (given that if one was too expensive you'd go to the other before considering going via Dundee and Amsterdam).
Having seen that you could expect to pay £300-£500 return from Aberdeen and that the Dundee flights are nicely in the middle of the day I was starting to think I was wrong after all.
But none of the usual places the man on the street would look at for a flight will even give me a fare from Dundee to Bristol or Cardiff, and the places that do give a price are saying £600-700.
Is this really happening, or is it wishful thinking from someone in a
PR dept? (On the other hand, I did note that ABZ>AMS/DUB>Many different places in England are perfectly viable ways of giving someone less than T3 would want, but only if you set quite a low value for your time.)