UK Chauffeur Drive Flexibility
Mar 30, 2015, 7:42 am
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UK Chauffeur Drive Flexibility
I've got a flight coming up soon from LHR in First, and I understand that the maximum mileage is 70 miles from the airport.
Annoyingly I live 120 miles away, so is there any flexibility with this on a paid First ticket? I can see that the site mentions additional mileage charges, but on the dropdown menu for UK this is not specified. Am I likely to have any luck?
Annoyingly I live 120 miles away, so is there any flexibility with this on a paid First ticket? I can see that the site mentions additional mileage charges, but on the dropdown menu for UK this is not specified. Am I likely to have any luck?
Mar 30, 2015, 7:49 am
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I've got a flight coming up soon from LHR in First, and I understand that the maximum mileage is 70 miles from the airport.
Annoyingly I live 120 miles away, so is there any flexibility with this on a paid First ticket? I can see that the site mentions additional mileage charges, but on the dropdown menu for UK this is not specified. Am I likely to have any luck?
Annoyingly I live 120 miles away, so is there any flexibility with this on a paid First ticket? I can see that the site mentions additional mileage charges, but on the dropdown menu for UK this is not specified. Am I likely to have any luck?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/emira...tinations.html
for further details on the company used at LHR.
Mar 30, 2015, 8:41 am
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I suggest you contact Ek - I did this for my f flight to Zrh and they confirmed the excess in 24 hours. The excess was outrageous so we took the train.
Alternatively call the number in the thread and speak to them directly.
Alternatively call the number in the thread and speak to them directly.
Mar 30, 2015, 8:42 am
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We're about the same distance as you are from LHR to GLA and we got quoted a round trip price of £300 for the (each way) 50 miles! We opted to have someone drive us to/from Dundee and got picked up from there instead.
Mar 30, 2015, 8:45 am
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Would it make sense to pick a hotel in London or elsewhere, take train between home and hotel, and use the chauffeur service between hotel and airport?
Mar 30, 2015, 8:50 am
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Mar 30, 2015, 9:08 am
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Yeah, I'm thinking about getting the train to Reading and then booking a car from there, saves going into Paddington and doing the HEX. I would just drive myself but it would ruin the fun if I can't have a drink on the way back from DXB! Thanks for the help.
Mar 30, 2015, 9:14 am
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Mar 31, 2015, 2:01 am
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This is what I normally do when traveling from Cardiff, beware however that there are two exits from Reading Station and when you book the car confirm twice with them that the driver will be at the right exit. I normally tell them to go to the north side, near Trooper Potts Way....still there is confusion 5 times out of 10!
Apr 1, 2015, 6:01 am
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I thought a driver said to me, for GLA anyway, there was a business class distance (70 miles) and a first class distance (120 miles?) i.e. larger allowance for 1st. Am I imagining this? We're about 80 miles by road from GLA but luckily it's spot on 70 in a direct line which is what they use.
Apr 1, 2015, 6:17 am
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I thought a driver said to me, for GLA anyway, there was a business class distance (70 miles) and a first class distance (120 miles?) i.e. larger allowance for 1st. Am I imagining this? We're about 80 miles by road from GLA but luckily it's spot on 70 in a direct line which is what they use.
First Class and Business Class passengers: within a 70-mile radius of the airport, including all Greater London postcodes.
Apr 1, 2015, 6:20 am
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I thought a driver said to me, for GLA anyway, there was a business class distance (70 miles) and a first class distance (120 miles?) i.e. larger allowance for 1st. Am I imagining this? We're about 80 miles by road from GLA but luckily it's spot on 70 in a direct line which is what they use.
Apr 1, 2015, 7:11 am
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If my memory serves me right, wasn't there an exception for chauffeur drive because of Dundee - there was some Dubai government link, or university established which had a lot of F traffic to GLA headed there, so it was an unpublished exception to the chauffeur drive limits that anyone heading there was entitled?
Apr 1, 2015, 11:20 am
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If my memory serves me right, wasn't there an exception for chauffeur drive because of Dundee - there was some Dubai government link, or university established which had a lot of F traffic to GLA headed there, so it was an unpublished exception to the chauffeur drive limits that anyone heading there was entitled?
