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Offint, with respect to you I've done the trip many times myself and don't need a map for illustration. Yes it is a long journey, yes it is a busy one in August and can be at any time of year, and yes taking a little one with you requires stops which otherwise you may not need but my point was purely on price. With your own vehicle you may loose a day at each end travelling but it doesn't cost you £1200 - or anywhere near. Added to that you no doubt hired a car while down there - more added cost. Personally I've never flown to NQY but have flown to Exeter many times. It's fast and convenient, no arguments with that, my gripe was the cost involved and, as you said yourself, flying from LBA would have been significantly dearer still. Different people, different opinions, different circumstances. End of.Here you go Michael, this is the reason we decided to fly to NQY, this is taking into account no breaks and clear roads. You would need a min of 2 stops with a 5 year old on board if not 3 each being 30 mins so thats another hour (min) to add on. Traffic is and never has been clear so there’s at least another hour to add on, any accidents could easily add 2-3 hours.
The flight took 39 mins, 1hr 20mins to get to MAN and 1h and 5mins from NQY to out hotel.....money well spent in my opinion. I lived in Devon for 10 years which is 2.5 hours up the road and used to commute once a month back North, I know what its like in August especially on Friday which is when we are going back up North.
I can recommend Gloucester Services as a stop-off point. However, the A42/M42/M5 is always a total nightmare at some point, and once you are off the A30 in Cornwall, then good luck with that.
We left Polurrian Bay Hotel in Mullion (deepest Cornwall) this morning with a 12 year old and 5 year old. 1 hour and 10 mins later we were handing the car back Europecar at NQY airport which was a doddle as I was the only one, rain and wind was very bad, Flybe were at it again telling everybody at the boarding gate to put their hand luggage in the measuring frame, having the 5 year old was like a joker card as they let us board first and never asked us to ours in...loads of cases were put to one side for the hold and it wasn’t the height it was was width (outwards)...fight 45 mins, poor sods coming back in weather like this on the motorways, feel sorry for them.
Talk around exeter airport yesterday is that theirs more cuts to come, with more base closers, talked about is IOM base closeing or be give back to stobart to ops, also lots of talk about cuts at belfast city and glasgow. All bases and all routes are being looked at, but also the good routes that make money will get more flights, i can see birmingham being cut more with easyjet getting bigger their. One route doing very well is exeter to paris i can see more flight their maybe 3x day, amsterdam is also up to 11x week from 8. Their is talk about the norwich flights being kept maybe 2\3 week. We will wait and see but IOM seems to def going.
Do they have a base at EMA or do they operate with W patterns?Jesus, FlyBe have just announced its withdrawing all operations from both Doncaster/Sheffield and East Midlands airports, as from October 26th 2019.
Do they have a base at EMA or do they operate with W patterns?
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