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Post subject: Banff 2013, from Manchester? Seemingly not...
 Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 04:22 PM
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First post: Oct 17, 2009
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Hi guys! 2012 didnt happen for me, no trips at all due to the mrs hvaing no leave from work and mates getting their wings clipped by girlfriends so Im incredibly gung ho for this year. Id decided to sacrifice the summer holiday for another trip to Canada in January. Bearing in mind I'll be working all year in a job I hate to be there its pretty much a light at the end of the tunnel.
Thats was up until today when weve found out that theres no flights to Banff from Manchester this season according to crystal, inghams, neilsen etc. They are however flying from Heathrow.
Now Im a Northerner, from where I live its a 3.5 hour drive to Manchester as it is, hoping my luggage and board makes it to Heathrow on the connecting flight and then out to Banff. Its unknown if there will be an overnight stay involved, how much the extra flights are, how much waiting. Im dreading the idea of coming back more. There is always the train but I dont fancy that with all the gear.
So it seems my light has gone and I'll be honest Im completely gutted. I dont know what to do now, might give the boarding up and just go to Mexico in the summer instead.
Cheers Inghams, Crystal et al and the airline. Guess us northerners don't matter anyway!
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Post subject: Re: Banff 2013, from Manchester? Seemingly not...
Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 07:39 PM
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Villers wrote:
Cheers Inghams, Crystal et al and the airline. Guess us northerners don't matter anyway!
Manchester is the closest airport for Scots to fly to Canada and for me it's 300 miles each way. You haven't been able to fly to Canada from Scotland in the winter season since Zoom went bust and there are no package deals to Canada or USA with TUI/Inghams either. Can't get the train to Manchester Airport either as Scotrail don't allow boardbags on their trains.
Thomas Cook and Neilson stopped doing Scottish flights for ski/snowboard holiday package deals at least 2 years ago and there's loads of resorts throughout Europe that you can't get a holiday to from Scotland, despite the holiday company flying to the nearest airport and this years SCUK winter bash was in a resort where the nearest airport (Innsbruck), you couldn't fly to from Scotland - how hard would it have been to check that before deciding on Mayrhofen. If I remember right, if you wanted to go to the BRITS 2012 from Scotland, then a flight was about £500, yet there were people on here saying it was cheap to get to because they were only looking at flights from London. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: Banff 2013, from Manchester? Seemingly not...
Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 07:57 PM
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You sound more wound up than me mate!!  |
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Post subject: RE: Re: Banff 2013, from Manchester? Seemingly not...
Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 08:26 PM
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First post: Mar 09, 2009
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I'm trying to research Fernie for xmas/new year, so also after Manchester<->Calgary...
I've been recommended to use http://www.canadianaffair.com/ but the sh1t is... they've not yet listed their manc-calgary direct flights (clicking the manc-calgary option I can only see them listing up to the end of Oct atm). This season just gone they were apparently about £440-470 direct with free ski carriage, for a reference. The gf phoned them and apparently they should have direct flights running this winter but they're not listed yet so the lass the other end of the phone wasn't 100%. So, possible light at the end of the tunnel, but who knows... |
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Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 08:27 PM
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| I've recently (few weeks ago) travelled on scotrail with my boardbag and they didnt have any issues. Also (this isnt recent) me and my old housemate looked where you can fly and there were deffo flights out from Glasgow (cant remember whether it was pwick or not) to Canada. |
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Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 10:47 PM
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Scot rail never bothered me either.
The airline thing is a joke though. Its almost 3rd world |
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Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 09:55 AM
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| If you don't want to trek down to Heathrow then why not put your own package together? The big package companies might not be running flights from Manchester to Banff but I'm sure there must be another way to get to Canada from the north of England. |
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Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 10:48 AM
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dashie wrote:
Scot rail never bothered me either.
The airline thing is a joke though. Its almost 3rd world
I got an email from Scotrail saying they didn't allow boardbags.
If you want to grab a very end of season trip from Scotland, then Canadian Affair/Air Transat are doing their summer schedule from Glasgow to Calgary/Vancouver from the end of this month.
We were going to Banff on May 2nd, but my mate has had a few unexpected expenses, so it's looking unlikely (it was approx £1300pp for 7 nights in Banff). |
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