Comments | nmg: Leaving, on a prop plane

nmg

Leaving, on a prop plane

Sep 19, 2011 09:58

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hsb September 19 2011, 09:06:06 UTC

What are you doing in Stornoway?

H

nmg September 19 2011, 09:54:14 UTC

External examining a PhD student from the University of Highlands and Islands.

hsb September 19 2011, 12:35:58 UTC

Ah well, enjoy. It was just odd, as I've just heard from A's folks. Pa has clearance to travel again, so they are off to France, probably.

Lewis can be nice, but Stornoway not so much...

H

pir September 19 2011, 09:21:01 UTC

Perhaps it thought you didn't get out enough and needed a tour of the country?

nmg September 19 2011, 09:55:05 UTC

If I'm going to collect airmiles, I'd prefer to do it on an aircraft that goes rather faster (and that stays in the air for more than 45m at a time).

_nicolai_ September 19 2011, 10:30:33 UTC

It's a valid choice, but for example on Wednesday I can find this routing on Flybe (using ITA Software's search engine):

Southampton (SOU) to Edinburgh (EDI) - Wed, Sep 21
Flybe 767 Dep: 2:35pm Arr: 4:05pm 1h 30m De Havilland Dash-8
Layover in EDI 1h 10m

Edinburgh (EDI) to Stornoway (SYY) - Wed, Sep 21
Flybe 6947 Dep: 5:15pm Arr: 6:25pm 1h 10m SAAB SF 340

which doesn't look horrible to me.

nmg September 19 2011, 12:27:55 UTC

More sensible, but the wrong end of the day; my main criterion was that I wanted to spend at most one night on Stornoway. I had been looking at those flights to get up the day before (a Thursday), but there were no flights to get me back on the same day. The Saturday flights were all over the place, which is what the wacky routes above were generated for.

And there's no way you're getting me to a) stay a Sunday on Stornoway or b) try and fly on Sunday from Stornoway.

nmg September 19 2011, 12:30:00 UTC

I should also add: I was originally looking at running this trip back-to-back with a trip to Bonn for a conference. Unfortunately, the session I most want to attend is on the Sunday (the PhD exam is on the Friday), and I was having difficulty finding reasonable routes and fares for the triangular trip SOU->SYY->CGN->SOU.

I've now decided not to go to Bonn.

daveon September 19 2011, 16:04:29 UTC

Expedia doesn't index all the flight options and, I've found, tends to get upset outside of the USA and main city routes.

Like with all travel sites, it's a tool not necessarily an option :)