Newquay-2
I live close to Falmouth and a taxi to NQY and return is £80 before any tips. It takes a good 40 minutes each way plus there are frequently hold ups so you have to allow much longer to be sure. I have had this conversation with a number of friends and neighbours and many of us still either drive to LGW or take a return taxi which costs £600 but of course is door to door. Flying on the dates I want to go will cost £425 with baggage and I will still need Hotels at LGW at a cost of £200 minimum so you can see why flying doesn't add up financially.
I can get a deal with IHG for Hotel plus 16 days parking at £207, add £150 for fuel and I can do the whole thing in relaxed fashion for £357.
So here we go again I am paying from my taxes for a PSO route I am unlikely to use other than for a quick short break or day trip.
The service is simply not working for many of us taking long haul flights that live here and that is not an opinion it is a fact. Pricing strategy needs looking at, the low fares could be increased and the standard fare needs to include 23kgs of baggage.The flexible fare I have no opinion on
I can think of a six couples just in our little village that have been lost multiple times to the air service (eastern or not) in the past year. My wife and I have three transatlantic crossings booked from LGW before February next year and try as I may I still can't help ending up with the result driving my own car is far less expensive and in many ways easier than flying. Someone prove me wrong please.
I can get a deal with IHG for Hotel plus 16 days parking at £207, add £150 for fuel and I can do the whole thing in relaxed fashion for £357.
So here we go again I am paying from my taxes for a PSO route I am unlikely to use other than for a quick short break or day trip.
The service is simply not working for many of us taking long haul flights that live here and that is not an opinion it is a fact. Pricing strategy needs looking at, the low fares could be increased and the standard fare needs to include 23kgs of baggage.The flexible fare I have no opinion on
I can think of a six couples just in our little village that have been lost multiple times to the air service (eastern or not) in the past year. My wife and I have three transatlantic crossings booked from LGW before February next year and try as I may I still can't help ending up with the result driving my own car is far less expensive and in many ways easier than flying. Someone prove me wrong please.
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: EDI, LHR, NQY
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That’s exactly why a LHR PSO with a network feeder carrier would have been more useful but the airport insisted LGW was preferential because of the greater options. This situation is what the airport wanted.
Wasn't the case for continued funding of the PSO sprung to national prominence politically when the under-resourced GWR mainline was severed by floods for many months afew years back? A political hot potato back then.
Not many airlines will give up an LHR slot for a couple of flights a day to Newquay - and there is still Groundhogs problem that the airport is not easy to get to for a lot of people
I live close to Falmouth and a taxi to NQY and return is £80 before any tips. It takes a good 40 minutes each way plus there are frequently hold ups so you have to allow much longer to be sure. I have had this conversation with a number of friends and neighbours and many of us still either drive to LGW or take a return taxi which costs £600 but of course is door to door. Flying on the dates I want to go will cost £425 with baggage and I will still need Hotels at LGW at a cost of £200 minimum so you can see why flying doesn't add up financially.
I can get a deal with IHG for Hotel plus 16 days parking at £207, add £150 for fuel and I can do the whole thing in relaxed fashion for £357.
So here we go again I am paying from my taxes for a PSO route I am unlikely to use other than for a quick short break or day trip.
The service is simply not working for many of us taking long haul flights that live here and that is not an opinion it is a fact. Pricing strategy needs looking at, the low fares could be increased and the standard fare needs to include 23kgs of baggage.The flexible fare I have no opinion on
I can think of a six couples just in our little village that have been lost multiple times to the air service (eastern or not) in the past year. My wife and I have three transatlantic crossings booked from LGW before February next year and try as I may I still can't help ending up with the result driving my own car is far less expensive and in many ways easier than flying. Someone prove me wrong please.
I can get a deal with IHG for Hotel plus 16 days parking at £207, add £150 for fuel and I can do the whole thing in relaxed fashion for £357.
So here we go again I am paying from my taxes for a PSO route I am unlikely to use other than for a quick short break or day trip.
The service is simply not working for many of us taking long haul flights that live here and that is not an opinion it is a fact. Pricing strategy needs looking at, the low fares could be increased and the standard fare needs to include 23kgs of baggage.The flexible fare I have no opinion on
I can think of a six couples just in our little village that have been lost multiple times to the air service (eastern or not) in the past year. My wife and I have three transatlantic crossings booked from LGW before February next year and try as I may I still can't help ending up with the result driving my own car is far less expensive and in many ways easier than flying. Someone prove me wrong please.
There have been a couple of major incidents that closed the line. One is the Somerset floods of a few years ago and the other was the storm that washed away the sea wall at Dawlish that also closed the line for months.
