BA: Biz Sale from UK to USA from $1700-2100s
Jul 2, 2019, 8:50 am
#16
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Glasgow, UK
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Can we please have a rule blocking all posts here which reference Inverness starting points?!
The cost of getting to Inverness, coupled with the lack of suitable low cost accommodation for anyone who can't back to back, means it is a non-starter for most people to save the £166 APD.
It is effectively just clickbait for the 99.8% of the UK population who are not within an hours drive of INV,
Inverness is £11 on the train off peak from Glasgow, £20 from Edinburgh, Are you including most of Scotland in that 99.8%?
Hotels there is Holiday Inn, Jurys, A Marriot being built not to mention the local b&bs rather than staying in a sterile chain hotel.
Also in most cases the base fare is also lower from INV never mind just saving the APD its usually cheaper overall too,
5 of us travelled to Vegas exInv £11 each on the train, Got off the train got the bus to the airport, Granted its easier from LHR as a b2b but as a family of 5 we saved nearly £1k, people just need to take their London tinted specs off. 99.8% of the country isnt London afterall :-)
Jul 2, 2019, 8:58 am
#17
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Berlin
Programs: Meow Mix
Posts: 1,434
Can we please have a rule blocking all posts here which reference Inverness starting points?!
The cost of getting to Inverness, coupled with the lack of suitable low cost accommodation for anyone who can't back to back, means it is a non-starter for most people to save the £166 APD.
It is effectively just clickbait for the 99.8% of the UK population who are not within an hours drive of INV,
Jul 2, 2019, 9:40 am
#19
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Northants, UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 111
Inverness is £11 on the train off peak from Glasgow, £20 from Edinburgh, Are you including most of Scotland in that 99.8%?
Hotels there is Holiday Inn, Jurys, A Marriot being built not to mention the local b&bs rather than staying in a sterile chain hotel.
Also in most cases the base fare is also lower from INV never mind just saving the APD its usually cheaper overall too,
5 of us travelled to Vegas exInv £11 each on the train, Got off the train got the bus to the airport, Granted its easier from LHR as a b2b but as a family of 5 we saved nearly £1k, people just need to take their London tinted specs off. 99.8% of the country isnt London afterall :-)
Hotels there is Holiday Inn, Jurys, A Marriot being built not to mention the local b&bs rather than staying in a sterile chain hotel.
Also in most cases the base fare is also lower from INV never mind just saving the APD its usually cheaper overall too,
5 of us travelled to Vegas exInv £11 each on the train, Got off the train got the bus to the airport, Granted its easier from LHR as a b2b but as a family of 5 we saved nearly £1k, people just need to take their London tinted specs off. 99.8% of the country isnt London afterall :-)
Jul 2, 2019, 9:47 am
#20
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: New York, NY
Programs: AA ExPl, DL PM, UA Silver, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, probably some others
Posts: 4,097
Can we please have a rule blocking all posts here which reference Inverness starting points?!
The cost of getting to Inverness, coupled with the lack of suitable low cost accommodation for anyone who can't back to back, means it is a non-starter for most people to save the £166 APD.
It is effectively just clickbait for the 99.8% of the UK population who are not within an hours drive of INV,
It's easy to re-position to Inverness on Avios. It's also entirely feasible to get a flight there while traveling within Europe, as I've done several times on KLM. And there's a £100 Holiday Inn Express 10 minutes from the airport, so cost of accommodation isn't an issue, either.
Jul 2, 2019, 10:05 am
#21
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Location: Barcelona, London, on a plane
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As most people have commented, the issue isn't so much the content - I sometimes feel like complaining about ex-CAI fares because the fares mentioned around here are usually just standard, regular-priced fares from what happens to be a cheap market - but the fact that it comes from Raffles, who is doing quite nicely from people wanting to save money on flights, amongst other things. The hypocrisy is breath-taking...
Jul 2, 2019, 10:14 am
#22
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95% of the posts in this forum are not relevant to my needs (maybe higher) but I check anyway because you never know when the 5% will save me some significant coin. That's the way the forum works.
If we are going to "ban" anything my preference would be to relegate the PE fares to another location. There is a huge gap between PE and biz class.
If we are going to "ban" anything my preference would be to relegate the PE fares to another location. There is a huge gap between PE and biz class.
Jul 3, 2019, 3:16 pm
#25
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: London
Programs: BA GGL & CCR, GFL
Posts: 495
Can we please have a rule blocking all posts here which reference Inverness starting points?!
The cost of getting to Inverness, coupled with the lack of suitable low cost accommodation for anyone who can't back to back, means it is a non-starter for most people to save the £166 APD.
It is effectively just clickbait for the 99.8% of the UK population who are not within an hours drive of INV,
Jul 3, 2019, 6:35 pm
#26
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Stockholm, Sweden.
Programs: BA, JAL
Posts: 689
Not a particularly good time to visit Vegas (inv-las): £1632 (First class)
https://www.google.com/flights?prmd=tniv&lite=0#flt=INV.LAS.2019-11-19*LAS.INV.2019-11-29;c:GBP;e:1;a:ONEWORLD*ONEWORLD;sc:f;sd:1;t:f
https://www.google.com/flights?prmd=tniv&lite=0#flt=INV.LAS.2019-11-19*LAS.INV.2019-11-29;c:GBP;e:1;a:ONEWORLD*ONEWORLD;sc:f;sd:1;t:f
Jul 5, 2019, 4:20 pm
#28
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Jul 6, 2019, 2:59 am
#29
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Barcelona, London, on a plane
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The hypocrisy is Raffles the FT contributor complaining about a single post on FT that mirrors quite a few articles on HfP, as @msm2000uk so kindly demonstrated.
Listen... we all have bad days or post something on FT that we later regret. But no need to double down on it...
Jul 6, 2019, 4:50 am
#30
formerly Guanran Wang
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: HKG, PEK, IAD/DCA, LON, BHX,
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I mean seriously, there are so many people suggesting Kathmandu as starting point for Oneworld flights on FT, and people complain about INV being inaccessible? Oh and a marriott is opening end of 2019 too