Easyjet Confirmation email

Hi everyone.

It is now 2 weeks to my departure and I have just received an email from easyjet :-

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IMPORTANT REMINDER: Travel document information required

Before you travel, you are legally required to provide us with travel document information for your journey.

You MUST provide this. If you don't, members of your travelling party will not be allowed to take their flight.
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There is a link in the email which efficiently took me to log in to my easyjet account and thence a form which I had to fill in giving details of my and Gillian's passport. No information - no flight they say. I don't remember doing anything like this in previous years and this is to advise independent travellers using easyjet (and perhaps other airlines ??) to look out for this email and comply with it. They state that this info is required by some countries for security reasons. Having completed the form on my easyjet account page the intro page changes to :-

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Thank you for providing your advanced passenger information. Please remember that if this information is inaccurate or does not match the document presented for travel, you will not be allowed to take your flight.
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I'm just a bit bothered that some easyjet flyers to Plakias may miss seeing this email - spam filters and such like !!!.

John R

General Map of Crete

I have just bought the Rough Guide map of Crete.

It is one of the best maps of Crete that I have seen - for general purposes. Scale is 1:140,000 and it is a rip-proof waterproof plastic map with a removable cardboard cover. The detail is superb, very clear and looks to be very much up to date. Maybe not perfect for say serious walkers in the mountains but every road and track is marked in detail. It has contours as well. Vastly superior to the 1:300,000 tourist maps handed out free by the hire care companies.

Not very expensive either. RRP £5.99 (cheaper I think at Amazon) ISBN 1-84353-239-5

I would say indispensable for anyone hiring a car.

John R

BA - here we go again ?????

I can hardly believe it. My Newcastle flight cancelled - rebooked with BA Connect from Manchester and I have found this :-

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British Airways has sold the regional operations of its subsidiary airline, BA Connect, to Flybe - a move that will lead to about 900 flight cancellations.

The airline said it would offer passengers alternative flights with either BA or Flybe, or a full refund.

The airports affected include Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Bristol.
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Anybody know any more !!!!!!!!

John R

PS (edit) Just realised my service from Manchester is run by GB airways. However I'm still not sure of our position etc.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6418391.stm is of interest


Panic over as I have just found on the BA site :-

What about services operated by GB Airways from Manchester, Nottingham East Midlands and Bristol?
Services operated by GB Airways are unaffected by this announcement.

I'm leaving this message on as it may be of interest to anyone else who thinks that they MAY have been affected by the changes

Skeelos Meeting

Yesterday we had a day in London where we met up with Denis and Christine, founder members of the Plakias Livicon Skeelos Club. I had a meeting to attend and they took Gillian round all London (it seemed) on a walking tour - (in true Skeelos fashion). I don't think there was any sight that they missed seeing after which they met up with me and we had a meal in a pub somewhere behind carnaby Street where a sub committee meeting of the Skeelos Club took part discussing all aspects of Plakias before we parted and flew back North.

It was so nice to meet up with our Plakias friends in the UK who we have now been seeing in Plakias for many years.

John and Gillian R

BA Flights - Manchester

Yesterday (23 October) all British Airways Connect 2007 direct flights (Flight BA6810) between Manchester and Heraklion disappeared from the BA website system. Still on the timetable but no means of booking them. I rang up BA and their rep had no suggestions other than a pending major amendment to those flights - including the possibility of withdrawal. That rep was also surprised when she could not access them herself. Her system said all flights fully booked !! - which she agreed was very unlikely. The last few 2006 flights were available and bookable.

I know some people have already booked these flights for 2007 - have they received any notifications from BA.

Perhaps it is simply website maintenance

Anybody out there know anything about this ?

John R