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Title: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: Lesley on October 02, 2014, 03:47:11 PM
I have just read on another forum that British Airways announced today that from May 2015 there will be flights directly to Corfu from London Heathrow.  They are available on line via BA website or via UK travel agencies bookable from October 1st for next summer.
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: hippopots on October 02, 2014, 05:56:31 PM
I've just taken a look on BA'S website, and the prices are brilliant....under £200 for return in August, hand luggage only, and under £250 with hold luggage, in school holidays!!!

Remember there's people here in San Stef who do independant accommodation bookings, and people who can help you with booking, ie Lesley, Noula.

 
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: tonyco1 on October 03, 2014, 04:33:08 PM
Loads of us have already immediately booked with B A from Heathrow
the deal is good. Direct flights... 
They fly Mon / Thurs / Fri / Sunday from Heathrow - not checked the other airports yet
A cabin Bag up to 23kg plus a smaller laptop bag or handbag, 23kg Hold Luggage £20 extra, free refreshments, drink & breakfast in our case out to Corfu -
Great flight times fly out 07:30... you can't fault it  - and it's just 10 mins to T5 from us

The flights are attracting loads of interest - - v/cheap - - book early...

Note: there seems to be an error on the website - they give 4 hours to fly - when it's three hours - or maybe they got the time zone wrong - - just keep an eye on the times..
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: rilo57 on October 03, 2014, 05:12:27 PM
We tend to forget the non charter airlines...As with us Aegean airlines out of Brussels €115 return end of july,so with insurance €152 .and 23kg luggage,8kg hand luggage and refreshments.
They also have a very good reputation for being on time....
Great for you Tony for T5....
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: tonyco1 on October 09, 2014, 07:57:19 AM
Makes a nice change Rilo57
We do fly Heathrow for Long haul but, unless domestic (Scotland etc.), it's always Gatwick, Luton or Stanstead usually.
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: Silverstar on October 09, 2014, 02:09:22 PM
I should have booked last week when 10-28 Aug was £230 each all in - now up to £300 :(

Will sit tight and wait to see what the spring brings as Easyjet released theirs yesterday and prices were still in the £280 - £320 bracket which is more than I paid when I waited to book until end of April last year.....
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: tonyco1 on October 10, 2014, 07:39:59 AM
For us right now the EJ and BA prices are similar, but we make a huge saving of the extra £120 it costs for a Taxi or Parking at Gatwick.
Heathrow T5 is just 10 mins away.. so everything is a plus...
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: rilo57 on October 10, 2014, 10:31:42 AM
 Will be passing close by Tony as i drive over next week for a few days to see the grandkids.Allways dread the M25 round heathrow..Normally stay over round Beaconsfield but this trip will be in one day so a 10 hour slog..
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: cambridge on October 10, 2014, 04:25:24 PM
Rilo, have a good trip.
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: rilo57 on October 10, 2014, 05:05:53 PM
 Cheers...no doubt will have to call in at Adinkirke for supplies for the family..Did you manage to stop for
 a look Cambridge on your trip?
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: cambridge on October 10, 2014, 08:06:27 PM
We didn't, I was fretting too much about making sure we got to Dusseldorf in good time. We will however be going here in November: Noël Cuvelier's Rural Supermarket (which also sells a lot of beer! And I mean alot) Abelestationsplein 30, 8970 Poperinge West Flanders (on the D984/N38)
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: rilo57 on October 12, 2014, 08:10:33 PM
Yes Cambridge,much to see and eat and drink in Poperinge.Talbot house is a must see,its a b&b and also museum where the troops recovered from the turmoil of the trenches,has its own chapel in the roof.we have been in Nieueport for the weekend on the coast,visited ypres saturday for the last post,very humbeling..next weekend is a weekend for rememberance with a 100 mile of candles lit at sundown.....Hope to go back and join the rememberance..........Sorry that this has no relavance to this post but if it wasent for the fallen who willingly gave their lives for us to live in pezce we wouldnt be enjoying what we enjoy now......
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: Dupnica on October 12, 2014, 08:35:20 PM
 Couldn't agree more. Sometimes we forget how lucky we are.
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: stressed0506 on October 12, 2014, 11:46:13 PM
loved your post rilo.
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: BAJ on October 12, 2014, 11:52:07 PM
Thank you Rilo.... A poignant post.
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: cambridge on October 13, 2014, 12:00:41 PM
Rilo, we go every late November, and generally stay either in Ypres or Arras. This year in fact we have a night in each, as we continue our year of travel indulgence! My grandfather was enlisted in early 1918 at the age of 16, but after training luckily didn't reach the front until late spring early summer. This meant he missed the German spring offensive, and hence there was more of a chance of me and my lot being here. He was involved in the Battle of the Peaks of Flanders around Ypres, (although he called it Wipers), in late September 1918, by which point the Germans were starting to crumble. The young boy from a tiny village in the Fens was very proud of his part in that significant advance.

Oh, and by the way, BA are doing flights next year, check it out.
Title: Re: British Airways to Corfu summer 2015
Post by: rilo57 on October 13, 2014, 12:55:19 PM
Cambridge its nice you have the chance to be able to visit these special places,realy brings home the terrible ordeal these guys went through...Enjoy your trip and hope the weather is kind for you...