Easjet

[Churchill]

And probably costs a fraction of peak time ticket to London...

NetJets is your friend.

[Bunk]

And probably costs a fraction of peak time ticket to London...

Yes, but we only do that to keep you away from here

[Paddy]

Meeting next week has been moved forward by one day. So I need to move my flights and hotel reservation forward by one day.

They want

£40 per passenger per flight (£80)
£20 Hotel cancellation fee (the cannot change the booking, I have to cancel and rebook)

They can only do part of this over the phone, and part of this online.

Dirty robbing inefficient bastids.

Easy Jest still owe me money; I booked and paid for a flight at Gatwick and was ticketed … for a non existent flight. I turned up on the day only to be told “It's your fault. You must have booked it yourself on the Internet and put the wrong information into the computer”

[Zippy]

First class on the TGV or ICE? Pretty good for a train; served at your seat in the restaurant car; food's often quite 'Germanic', simple, straightforward but good quality and filling.

I believe there are plans to start running ICE trains from St Pancras.

[alreadypacked]

I believe there are plans to start running ICE trains from St Pancras.

The run ICE trains from Zurich, very nice. But they have a bit of an old cruise liner feel about the decor.

[eek]

I believe there are plans to start running ICE trains from St Pancras.

Not wanting to sound like gricerboy but...

They want to run the ICE trains but the French are throwing every spanner they can find in the works one of which was that trains have to be a ridiculous minimum length. To solve this the Germans simply attached two trains to each other.

This means that the trains will serve two different routes at the some time which resulted in the French then trying to find another vaguely plausible excuse.

[Mich the Tester]

I believe there are plans to start running ICE trains from St Pancras.

Just googled that;

ICE Dream: High-Speed Train from Germany Rolls into London - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

That would be very convenient for me. It's about 1.5 hours on the train from Arnhem (40 mins drive from home) to Cologne, then one fast train all the way to London; would be brilliant. It's about 600 kms from Cologne to London; enough time for a good liquid lunch on the train.

That train could actually be an airport killer; if you really can go from the centre of Cologne to centre of London in about 2.5 hours then flying from about half of western Germany and the east of Holland or Belgium becomes a complete waste of time.

[BoredBloke]

When I used to fly with QueasyJet, yes they were rubbish, but if you booked far enough in advance and took advantage of their sales you could make a killing. I once did 10 return trips between Geneva and Liverpool for £450 all in. They were pretty much on time leaving Liverpool each monday morning and pretty much always late leaving Geneva each Friday evening. But for £22.50 including txes etc, I thought that was pretty good. Unfortunately once the winter fares stopped I had to resort to the Sunday evening departure from Manchester and all through summer they wanted around £150 to £200 for each return.

[Zippy]

Not wanting to sound like gricerboy but...

They want to run the ICE trains but the French are throwing every spanner they can find in the works one of which was that trains have to be a ridiculous minimum length. To solve this the Germans simply attached two trains to each other.

This means that the trains will serve two different routes at the some time which resulted in the French then trying to find another vaguely plausible excuse.

SNCF have a few shares in Eurostar ...

It would be great if it happens though. Going to Paris first is a real pain for a lot of cross-Europe journeys.