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Have you ever tried driving in to Switzerland?
Don't forget you'll need to pay for a vignette in addition to the car rental company fees for cross-border. Driving across the Swiss border isn't always an easy task if you don't have Swiss plates on.. expect to be searched.
Also hiring a car in Switzerland during ski season, you're likely to have a car supplied with winter tyres on. In Munich? I doubt it. Not as simple as it seems from the armchair.
Don't forget you'll need to pay for a vignette in addition to the car rental company fees for cross-border. Driving across the Swiss border isn't always an easy task if you don't have Swiss plates on.. expect to be searched.
Also hiring a car in Switzerland during ski season, you're likely to have a car supplied with winter tyres on. In Munich? I doubt it. Not as simple as it seems from the armchair.
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Have you ever tried driving in to Switzerland?
Don't forget you'll need to pay for a vignette in addition to the car rental company fees for cross-border. Driving across the Swiss border isn't always an easy task if you don't have Swiss plates on.. expect to be searched.
Also hiring a car in Switzerland during ski season, you're likely to have a car supplied with winter tyres on. In Munich? I doubt it. Not as simple as it seems from the armchair.
Don't forget you'll need to pay for a vignette in addition to the car rental company fees for cross-border. Driving across the Swiss border isn't always an easy task if you don't have Swiss plates on.. expect to be searched.
Also hiring a car in Switzerland during ski season, you're likely to have a car supplied with winter tyres on. In Munich? I doubt it. Not as simple as it seems from the armchair.
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Have you ever tried driving in to Switzerland?
Don't forget you'll need to pay for a vignette in addition to the car rental company fees for cross-border. Driving across the Swiss border isn't always an easy task if you don't have Swiss plates on.. expect to be searched.
Also hiring a car in Switzerland during ski season, you're likely to have a car supplied with winter tyres on. In Munich? I doubt it. Not as simple as it seems from the armchair.
Don't forget you'll need to pay for a vignette in addition to the car rental company fees for cross-border. Driving across the Swiss border isn't always an easy task if you don't have Swiss plates on.. expect to be searched.
Also hiring a car in Switzerland during ski season, you're likely to have a car supplied with winter tyres on. In Munich? I doubt it. Not as simple as it seems from the armchair.
I flew often from Man or EDI to Munich but next month from NCL which will save 4 hours minimum each way, You pay €10 for 10 days for the Austrian vignette. Nearly all the cars from MUC have winter tyres and yes the rental costs are far cheaper than GVA and far less chance of being caught speeding.
Plus Hipennine is correct in saying that you don’t pay for skies on Lufthansa economy flex saving around £75 return compared to the locos.
All I was saying is that the airport have missed an marketing opportunity to get the route off to the best possible start by not promoting Munich’s proximity to the likes of Kitzbuhel, Mayrhofen and so forth. Times have changed and most people don’t want a charter for a week into Innsbruck or Salzburg.
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)Yes, the marketing department have really pulled their finger out on this new MUC route.
Have you ever tried driving in to Switzerland?
Don't forget you'll need to pay for a vignette in addition to the car rental company fees for cross-border. Driving across the Swiss border isn't always an easy task if you don't have Swiss plates on.. expect to be searched.
Also hiring a car in Switzerland during ski season, you're likely to have a car supplied with winter tyres on. In Munich? I doubt it. Not as simple as it seems from the armchair.
Don't forget you'll need to pay for a vignette in addition to the car rental company fees for cross-border. Driving across the Swiss border isn't always an easy task if you don't have Swiss plates on.. expect to be searched.
Also hiring a car in Switzerland during ski season, you're likely to have a car supplied with winter tyres on. In Munich? I doubt it. Not as simple as it seems from the armchair.
I've done it quite a few times and never been stopped at all......................... and have left without realising I'd crossed the border (by mistake) as well............
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Any news on when SX-ABQ will be on the move? Last update on this thread was back in November with no repair until payment.
It doesn’t look like Olympus do much in the way of winter ops but they must have accumulated a fair hit on airport fees from sitting here the last 4 months one would imagine.
It doesn’t look like Olympus do much in the way of winter ops but they must have accumulated a fair hit on airport fees from sitting here the last 4 months one would imagine.
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Seems Loganair have killed off Eastern, CWL service ends 4th Feb and seems to have switched to MME. ABZ will be operated just once daily on an ATR72 from the 10th meaning the base will close.
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Lets hope Loganair takeover the NCL-CWL-NCL route.
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CWL used to attract a decent load when it was twice daily, when it went down to a single lunchtime departure it didn’t help.
if Loganair wanted to operate CWL then we’d need another aircraft, the only spare time is between 0910 ABZ arrival and the SVG going at 1300 but I believe that’s the time slot the BGO will eventually fill.
if Loganair wanted to operate CWL then we’d need another aircraft, the only spare time is between 0910 ABZ arrival and the SVG going at 1300 but I believe that’s the time slot the BGO will eventually fill.
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The cwl -ncl route isn't viable, which is one of the reasons for easterns switch.
Clearly tied in with the other route announcements at MME today, and it would be surprising if there wasn't some sort of start up support from the Mayor (who is getting his money from Central Government).
Given the number of schedule changes and non-ops, MME-ABZ has been struggling. LM also must be impacting Eastern at NCL.
Given the number of schedule changes and non-ops, MME-ABZ has been struggling. LM also must be impacting Eastern at NCL.
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Any news on when SX-ABQ will be on the move? Last update on this thread was back in November with no repair until payment.
It doesn’t look like Olympus do much in the way of winter ops but they must have accumulated a fair hit on airport fees from sitting here the last 4 months one would imagine.
It doesn’t look like Olympus do much in the way of winter ops but they must have accumulated a fair hit on airport fees from sitting here the last 4 months one would imagine.