Some experts claiming 5 days of closures to be totally safe. Don't think I'd be in any hurry to fly if they said any earlier in all honesty. Wouldn't want to be the man that said it was safe to go then to be proved wrong...
My girlfriends Mum and Sister are stuck in Egypt, not sure when they're gonna get back. Sounds like havoc. But like I said before it sounds like for once safety has really come first which I think is commendable.
[cite]Posted By: stonemuse[/cite]Had to be paid Leroy ;-)
Sorted now and on way to Beijing in a couple of hours.
Will be listening to Norwich game online - as I am missing it we are bound to win.
C'mon Huddersfield tonight - screw up Saints and Spanners :-)
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I've hired a car and am currently sat in a cafe in La Jonquera (right on the French border). Mmmm... Waffles!
Company is paying for it because I need to be back tonight to do some server work - and it's a good job too, cos the toll roads are bloody expensive! Only another 500 miles to go...
Is the smugness really necessary Creepy? I, like thousands of others, are set to lose hundreds of pounds because of this - oh, and miss out on the one and only holiday we could afford this year.
There is another larger volcano next to the one that is active. It is well overdue to erupt. Last time it did, in the 19thC, it went on for 23 years! Of course aviation was not a problem then.
None of us may ever fly again.
Anyone else getting slightly worried about all the natural disasters so far in 2010? Lots of earthquakes, floods etc and now this. Is it just me? Seems far more than normal. Or is it the fault of 24 Hour News Channels?
[cite]Posted By: Valley11[/cite]Is the smugness really necessary Creepy?
I, like thousands of others, are set to lose hundreds of pounds because of this - oh, and miss out on the one and only holiday we could afford this year.
Not being smug at all mate, as for money lost, I am a cabbie at Gatwick and I've got no passengers to take home at all.
Work has been declining for two years now, hence the hols in this country.
Got a mate stuck in Rio, looks like he will miss the Nowich game, the plus side is he has sun, sea and beautiful ladies, on the downside his mother is with him.....
I was meant to be flying to Venice today with the Mrs for our 1st year wedding anniversary. Our BA flight at 16:10 is now cancelled so we're not going. Fortunately BA have re-booked us in again for the 11 June and the hotel we had booked into ahve amended the booking as well for nothing. So we've not lost out and I now get to go to the Naaarwich game. Happy days!!!! (Looks round to check wife can't see the screen).
[cite]Posted By: Sideways[/cite]Just had an email from BA saying:
"All British Airways flights departing to and from the UK are cancelled until at least 1am UK local time on Saturday morning."
Oh dear.
Girl at work was meant to be leaving to Rome at 7am tomorrow morning and her flight has been cancelled already. You can check status of flights on the site.
Does anyone know how it works once they do start running again. Do they just continue with the normal schedule and fit delayed passengers in where they can, or do delayed passengers get priority?
For example if they start running on monday, do passengers with flights booked for monday fly as normal, or do monday flights get filled with delayed people from saturday/sunday?
I flew with BA during the strikes and they told me that if a flight is cancelled then they offer a full refund or will try and fit you onto another flight. Many airlines have arrangements with other carriers, and use these to assist delayed passengers. Although, the whole delays were down to BA, not quite sure how it works with weather difficulties.
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Easyjet cant get us home until Tuesday......
I'll leave an address for where food parcels are to be sent :0)))
I'd appreciate genuine info, as the UK media sites are crap.
Swimming Pool /
Bar /
SKY TV /
Fit birds to ogle /
Why kill yourself trying to get home?
I never had these issues with my Scarborough caravan holiday.......
So its wall to wall football this weekend!
"Club Tropicana, drinks are freeeee"
Beats being in SE9...
Sorted now and on way to Beijing in a couple of hours.
Will be listening to Norwich game online - as I am missing it we are bound to win.
C'mon Huddersfield tonight - screw up Saints and Spanners :-)
Sorted now and on way to Beijing in a couple of hours.
Will be listening to Norwich game online - as I am missing it we are bound to win.
C'mon Huddersfield tonight - screw up Saints and Spanners :-)
"I'm amazed how many people on this forum have flights booked!"
...why?
I've hired a car and am currently sat in a cafe in La Jonquera (right on the French border). Mmmm... Waffles!
Company is paying for it because I need to be back tonight to do some server work - and it's a good job too, cos the toll roads are bloody expensive! Only another 500 miles to go...
As AFKA said, No problem for me getting to Cornwall early June!
I, like thousands of others, are set to lose hundreds of pounds because of this - oh, and miss out on the one and only holiday we could afford this year.
None of us may ever fly again.
Anyone else getting slightly worried about all the natural disasters so far in 2010? Lots of earthquakes, floods etc and now this. Is it just me? Seems far more than normal. Or is it the fault of 24 Hour News Channels?
ABI on act of god exemption
wow sometimes it is actually 'useful' that I work in reinsurance..
essentially check your individual policy clauses to see what is actually covered and what is not.
Not being smug at all mate, as for money lost, I am a cabbie at Gatwick and I've got no passengers to take home at all.
Work has been declining for two years now, hence the hols in this country.
Brussels to St Pancras Intnl only takes 2 hrs, if you can get one.
"All British Airways flights departing to and from the UK are cancelled until at least 1am UK local time on Saturday morning."
Oh dear.
For example if they start running on monday, do passengers with flights booked for monday fly as normal, or do monday flights get filled with delayed people from saturday/sunday?