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    Oxford-Scotland fares in late May/early June

    The £165.90 fare is a ‘CrossCountry & Connections’ one, so it relies on (apparently) an itinerary that uses their services exclusively between Oxford and Edinburgh, and vice versa. The current timetable doesn’t offer many opportunities for that, but if you look at 14:39 from Oxford, change...
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    Aviation Discussion

    Circling back on this, Aer Lingus has now loaded availability for three new direct routes from Manchester to New York, Orlando and Barbados. There will be daily-ops to New York (JFK) from the 29th July 2021, and five times weekly to Orlando from the same date. Barbados will be thrice-weekly...
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    03:37 LIV to MIA - Updated now Cressington to Heathrow

    It's probably moot, as having submitted the request to Italy and having had it authorised is certainly the belt-and-braces approach, but currently,officially and empirically, the authorisation is not actually mandatory for a trip planned to be of less than 120 hours duration. Per...
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    03:37 LIV to MIA - Updated now Cressington to Heathrow

    I see; so the trip itself is due to take more than five days in-country?
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    03:37 LIV to MIA - Updated now Cressington to Heathrow

    Passengers are travelling all over the world, every day, including on routes which, on the face of it, look quite difficult. In the absence of an outright ban, there's a set of published rules, and (usually) a set of exemptions. Follow the rules, meet the requirements or qualify for the...
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    Union Connectivity Interim Report

    I couldn't find anything about London to Inverness traffic in the report, but in any event, it's not the biggest flow by a long, long way. Inverness to London has recently been roundly half a million passengers per annum. By comparison, Glasgow to London has been 2.3 million, and Edinburgh to...
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    Aviation Discussion

    Thank you for mentioning this - there was a right old racket the other day, but it was cloudy and FlightRadar could only tell me that whatever it was, was at 2000ft and had taken off from Leeming. I noticed that it descended to about 1500ft and that a couple of the Cobham Aviation aircraft from...
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    Is this covid test accepted?

    What else are they supposed to do? And what did they do last year?
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    Is this covid test accepted?

    It absolutely does not mean that at all. ‘Holidays’ are being sold because the companies selling them want and/or need cash, just has been the case all the way through this situation. There’s no reason for tour operators, airlines, hoteliers etc., not to try and sell. When it comes to it...
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    Is this covid test accepted?

    Holidays, and indeed all forms of increased international travel, will only resume when individual countries adopt new protocols and modify current regulations and restrictions. Holidays won’t return unless and until those changes are made, and that’s not something that ‘we’, as in the UK, have...
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    Is this covid test accepted?

    Exactly right. The generic problem with postal tests from a travel point of view, however, is that all countries which mandate a pre-departure negative result set a time frame in which the test must have been taken prior to travel. This varies by country, and the datum point for the timing...
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    Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar

    The situation there is that an infrastructure provider has utilised a system available to it to add an additional usage charge to operations. The charge is billed to the operator, which may or may not pass it on to their customer. The network airline fares systems permit the charge to be shown...
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    Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar

    He's a very affable chap in person, and he's very media-friendly for quite a few reasons. His angle tends to be quite mass-consumer, so he comes across well on radio and television, and the 'man who pays his own way' print media position is a successful one, too. Indeed, his astuteness is...
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    Barra Beach Landing

    There's not a great deal of point in using Google Flights, as there's only one operator. The Loganair website is the most efficient, if still slightly laborious way of checking dates online. Otherwise, if you're looking for the 'experience' fare anyway, for which you'd need to call the airline...
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    Belmond Grand Hibernian Cancelled

    Belmond announced that the stock was being withdrawn and refurbished quite some time ago (ie last year), and that it would not run in 2021 in any case. At the time, they said something along the lines that the refurbishment would 'reflect the destinations' that the train would travel to in...
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    West Highland Line: Altered Timetable Feb 2020

    I’d speculate that maintaining access to healthcare and the vaccination facility, in the absence of the Sleeper operating as a day service, is probably the primary catalyst, but shopping and also providing a winter weather alternative in case of road closures will be significant considerations...
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    West Highland Line: Altered Timetable Feb 2020

    It's operating twice a week only, on Mondays and Thursdays, until the Sleeper resumes. 08:52 from Rannoch, arrives Fort William at 09:55, so it's utilising the down Highlander's path.
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    Aviation Discussion

    I know that a few members have found it already, but I have posted some pictures and a video of the Barra flight 'experience' over on the Trip Reports Forum. For those who haven't seen it but may be interested: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/barra-beach-landing.214237/
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    Barra Beach Landing

    /....Video. Landing: Take Off (Apologies - camera autofocus struggled not to lock on to rain on widow):
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    Barra Beach Landing

    /......Continued Tobermory below (honest): Twin Otter on the beach: Barra Airport Departures. And Arrivals. And Check In. And Security. And Cafe: Barra Airport Al Fresco Leisure & Entertainment Facilities: On our way back: Back: Up next: video at...

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