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Title: Shall we meet in Birmingham or Malaga? Post by: TaplowGreen on January 14, 2017, 22:51:37 http://trib.al/16VVRzN
Not a difficult choice! Title: Re: Shall we meet in Birmingham or Malaga? Post by: Surrey 455 on January 15, 2017, 00:09:03 Depends on where you started from.
Newcastle - Saves money Birmingham - Spends money when you could have spent none. I hope the two friends split the air fares evenly. Title: Re: Shall we meet in Birmingham or Malaga? Post by: ChrisB on January 15, 2017, 07:50:01 Indeed, overall saving just £12ish each if they met in either Brum or Newcastle & divi'd up the fare equally
Title: Re: Shall we meet in Birmingham or Malaga? Post by: grahame on January 15, 2017, 07:58:02 For the record (from longer article in The Mirror (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/two-friends-fly-spain-catch-9619827).
Quote Newcastle to Birmingham by rail Distance: 200 miles, 400-mile round trip Cost of one return train fare: £105 Newcastle to Malaga Distance: 1,350 miles, 2,700-mile round trip Cost of outbound flight: £9.99 Cost of return flight: £9.99 Total cost: £19.98 Birmingham to Malaga Distance: 1,100 miles, 2,200-mile round trip Cost of outbound flight: £36.99 Cost of return flight: £18.30 Price of flights: £55.29 Cost of return rail ticket between Newcastle and Birmingham: £105 Cost of BOTH return flights, between Newcastle and Malaga and Birmingham and Malaga: £75.27 The flights for both girls cost £29.73 less than one return fail fare . Good luck to them - excellent marketing by the airlines helping to fill seats in what must be just about the quietest week of the year between England and the Spanish resorts. I was travelling on the days they were travelling, on Cross Country. Families with children travelling home at the very tail of the Christmas break ready for school on Monday, lots of football fans out on the Saturday evening too, so unlikely to be too many good advance advance rail fares on offer. Had they met in York and the traveller from Newcastle been prepared to travel on TransPennine Express, th e saving would have been down to £13.33 - again a flexible walk up ticket. And I wonder what it cost the friends to get to and from their airports in the UK (or for that matter what it would have cost the to get to New Street and Newcastle Central). I think we're being fed a selective story and I suspect they really wanted to go to Spain all along for a party weekend, and noticed the train fare issue when they looked at joining up in Bimingham before flying! Quote Lucy added: "Everything is cheaper out there, lots of things that add up in the UK, like the transport to get from the airport into the city is just one euro eighty, about £1.50. "It works out a lot cheaper when you go out for a drink too. The law in Granada is they have to bring you tapas when you order drinks. "They start off quite basic but by the time you are on your third drink they start to bring out prawns and things. "It's only about two euros for a bottle of beer which is a lot cheaper than over here and by the time you have had a few drinks and the tapas you are stuffed for the price of one cocktail in London. "We had a lovely time." Title: Re: Shall we meet in Birmingham or Malaga? Post by: eightf48544 on January 15, 2017, 11:15:04 This seems to be becoming a bit of folk law.
Also on new quiz this week. Except it was London and Glasgow. Where it was suggested that it would be cheaper to meet in Malaga than for one person to take the train. However, as you have to book a specific flight wouldn't it be fairer to compare an advanced ticket rather than an anytime? Title: Re: Shall we meet in Birmingham or Malaga? Post by: TaplowGreen on January 15, 2017, 14:22:20 Train fare Newcastle - Birmingham £105
Flight Newcastle - Malaga £19.99 Getting away from Birmingham for a few days - priceless :) Title: Re: Shall we meet in Birmingham or Malaga? Post by: old original on January 15, 2017, 14:27:15 personally, if I was the person in Birmingham I would contribute to the train fare rather than go through all the airport hassle and have to sit on a plane for four hours.
Title: Re: Shall we meet in Birmingham or Malaga? Post by: Bmblbzzz on February 01, 2017, 14:42:33 This seems to be becoming a bit of folk law. Yes, that would seem more comparable. Another way of looking at it is that those air fares are unsustainably cheap. Worth bearing in mind that the airline industry as a global whole has never made an overall profit in its entire history (this also sounds like "folk law" but I have heard it from a commercial pilot). Also on new quiz this week. Except it was London and Glasgow. Where it was suggested that it would be cheaper to meet in Malaga than for one person to take the train. However, as you have to book a specific flight wouldn't it be fairer to compare an advanced ticket rather than an anytime? This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |