All entries for Tuesday 10 August 2004

August 10, 2004

Viable alternatives to Heathrow and BA

  1. Birmingham to Paris, then onto Jo'burg, on Air France
  2. Birmingham to Amsterdam, then onto Jo'burg, on KLM
  3. Birmingham to Zurich, then onto Jo'burg, on Swiss
  4. Birmingham to Dubai, then onto Jo'burg, on Emirates

...as you can guess from this, today we had the usual horrific experience at the hands of BA and Heathrow Airport. It just gets worse every year. The seats are now so cramped and thin that you can feel every move that the passenger behind makes – his knees in your back. And now they've moved to flights to Terminal 1! Grrrrrr! Plus a coach journey and a train journey (no seats on the way out). This morning I vowed never to do it again. This afternoon I was in a more sensible mood. As someone recently pointed out to me, getting to Heathrow from Coventry takes so long that we might as well fly from Birmingham to a different major European hub.


Robert O'Toole : 10 Aug 2004 18:46 |  Comments (5) |  Report a problem