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They will probably give you Speedlink tickets to catch the coach from Heathrow to Gatwick
Could you expand a wee bit in what Speedlink tickets are and how long would it take to get from Heathrow to gatwick. Our flight out of LGW in the morning is around 9.00am!!
Could you expand a wee bit in what Speedlink tickets are and how long would it take to get from Heathrow to gatwick. Our flight out of LGW in the morning is around 9.00am!!
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Have a look on BA web site.It tells you about the bus.If you show the e ticket then it's a special price.I looked at flights the other day and they reckon 3 hours is enough from Heathrow to Gatwick.Sounds a bit tight if you have to collect bags,get on a bus ,then check in again.
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Oh my god, don't think I want to go through the stresses of that. We would need to leave Heathrow about 4.00am 
I have just phoned Airmiles who I booked with and they cannot tell me anything as they have had no announcement, yet they can see that no flights are available from ABZ - LGW. They have alerted their "travel watch team" so I can do nothing now but sit and wait.
Wouldn't mind it took me ages to do all my research and organise travel arrangements for this holiday as well!! Typical
I have just phoned Airmiles who I booked with and they cannot tell me anything as they have had no announcement, yet they can see that no flights are available from ABZ - LGW. They have alerted their "travel watch team" so I can do nothing now but sit and wait.
Wouldn't mind it took me ages to do all my research and organise travel arrangements for this holiday as well!! Typical
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Looks like as usual Aberdeen gets it.Wonder how long BA will take to announce something.Actually last night the BA web page was showing 2 LGW-ABZ and 3 ABZ-LGW in summer schedules.20 mins later it was back to 3 each way,and this morning nothing.
Strange way to run a railroad.
Are they learning from GSM.
Strange way to run a railroad. Are they learning from GSM.
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Caught the speedlink many times about 5 years ago, the journey time is about 1 hour and I think they go every hour.
The 3 hours mentioned is the connecting flight times from arrival at one airport to catching another a/c at another apt.
But as I read your comments, you are staying overnight at LGW in both directions any way, so no need to flap
Caught the speedlink many times about 5 years ago, the journey time is about 1 hour and I think they go every hour.
The 3 hours mentioned is the connecting flight times from arrival at one airport to catching another a/c at another apt.
But as I read your comments, you are staying overnight at LGW in both directions any way, so no need to flap
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Throw a dyce...............
Yes you are polite when you come through most nats staff are i just don't like being slagged off on websites such as this when i have done nothing wrong and am only doing as asked.
End of story.....................
Yes you are polite when you come through most nats staff are i just don't like being slagged off on websites such as this when i have done nothing wrong and am only doing as asked.
End of story.....................
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Charlie 83,
I'm very easy about security.I know you all have jobs to do and follow the rules.If my car has to be stripped to the body shell and I'm 20min late it doesn't matter.
(you'll have to re-build it with no squeaks
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I have been through several BAA airports,and others and everyones security is different.I thought they were supposed to follow common rules.One security guy at Heathrow was just about wearing my bag of duty free recently,he was so rude.Anyway end of story.
I'm very easy about security.I know you all have jobs to do and follow the rules.If my car has to be stripped to the body shell and I'm 20min late it doesn't matter.
(you'll have to re-build it with no squeaks)I have been through several BAA airports,and others and everyones security is different.I thought they were supposed to follow common rules.One security guy at Heathrow was just about wearing my bag of duty free recently,he was so rude.Anyway end of story.
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Over on the British Airways page LGW-ABZ going for sure.Lets see how long it takes for their PR dept to catch up.
Got a message on my answer machine from Airmiles today telling my my flight in April is definitely going ahead???
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Apparently BAA Abdn have launched a questionnaire to guage actual demand for a route to Poland, given potentially there are 25,000 poles living & working in the catchment area.
So if yer name's Zbjeinwowski, now's yer chance!
So if yer name's Zbjeinwowski, now's yer chance!
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The seemingly inevitable due to be announced next week by BA. When did they "take over" Dan Air - 1991/2? So about 15yrs on the route, not done too badly I guess. WW obviously determined to shake things up.
Will anyone else step in? Obvious candidates Easyjet I would imagine, but Stansted hasn't (yet) been relinked after something like 8-9yrs since it was last flown, despite a demand for such a service. Could Gatwick follow that example?
BA have certainly cut back their own services at Dyce over the years, what with franchises, sell-offs, own handling & so forth.
Been a strangely mixed year for ABZ.
Flybe may be looking to "decouple" the EXT-LBA-ABZ route, to provide a direct EXT-ABZ - they had been talking about more flights to EXT.
Will anyone else step in? Obvious candidates Easyjet I would imagine, but Stansted hasn't (yet) been relinked after something like 8-9yrs since it was last flown, despite a demand for such a service. Could Gatwick follow that example?
BA have certainly cut back their own services at Dyce over the years, what with franchises, sell-offs, own handling & so forth.
Been a strangely mixed year for ABZ.
Flybe may be looking to "decouple" the EXT-LBA-ABZ route, to provide a direct EXT-ABZ - they had been talking about more flights to EXT.
Just out of interest-what is the significance of the BAA doing a route poll? Its hardly like they encourage operators really outside the South of Egland zone -- heck struggling to maintain London from ABZ - and I would have thought the low cost operators to Poland would do their own analysis? What do you reckon then - Eastern Jetstream droning into deepest darkest Poland!
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I said on another forum that they could poll every single Pole on the Pole poll - the likelihood is of course every man & woman will say "yes, we want a service".
Fine.
But SAYING ("yes, we want...") & DOING (flying on the thing) are, very often, two different things.
eg. where was the demand for BRU...there was supposedly a need for a BRU link. One was supplied...where was the demand?? Melted away like Belgian chocolate.
Fine.
But SAYING ("yes, we want...") & DOING (flying on the thing) are, very often, two different things.
eg. where was the demand for BRU...there was supposedly a need for a BRU link. One was supplied...where was the demand?? Melted away like Belgian chocolate.
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Announcement now showing LGW "Suspended".
Interesting turn of phrase...why not say "axed/dropped/ceased/finito"??
"Suspended" suggests it may return at some unknown point in future.
Interesting turn of phrase...why not say "axed/dropped/ceased/finito"??
"Suspended" suggests it may return at some unknown point in future.
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"Suspended" suggests it may return at some unknown point in future.
). At least one other major airline I know never (as a matter of policy) says that its routes are "terminated", only ever that they are "suspended", and I imagine BA is the same.) The idea is perhaps that people will think the loss of the route is less definitive than "Dead. Gone to meet its maker. An ex-route..." and thus they'll somehow feel better. Let's face it, any route that gets axed can be restarted if circumstances change.