Making Your Long Haul Flight to Your Holiday Destination Less Hassle
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Author: Ian SG Smith
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A holiday in the Far East will include a long haul flight, we all recognise this, and in the planning stage a ten hour flight doesn’t seem that bad. There will be movies to watch, books to read, food to eat, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages to be had. More than likely it will be a night flight, and so we can sleep most of the way, so it can’t be that bad.
Nevertheless a lot of folks do it once and then say never again, it was all just too much hassle. Then there are the savvy travellers who take it all in their stride, and that is because they know how to lessen some of the things that can make flying a long way extremely tedious.
Strangely enough it isn’t the flight. There is enough to do, and the actual journey need not be that awful, it is what lies at each end of the journey that can make flying unbearable.
What exactly does the author mean my a comment like that?
It’s simple really, because what is advertised as a ten hour flight is possibly as much as a twenty hour journey. It is the ten hours or more that you spend getting to airports, hanging around at airports, and in travelling from the airport to your final destination that wears you out.
To break that down into little chunks of time, let us take the example of our family flying to the Far East, and we will say our flight departs at 10pm. We live 120 miles from our nearest suitable International Airport, so we need to allow 3 hours for the car journey. The airline tells us we need to be checking in at 7.30 pm, so this means we need to leave home in theory at 4.30pm. In fact we are now driving into rush hour, so perhaps we need to allow longer, so we end up leaving at 3.30pm.
We also know we need to get to the long term car park, unload our cases, walk to the bus stop, and wait for the bus, all of which takes time. If it is wet and horribly cold we need clothes that we won’t require for our holiday, but we will have to carry with us anyway.
We finally get into Check In and stand in a long snaking queue for what seems like hours, struggle through security with the teeming thousands and end up in a packed departure lounge. There is hardly a seat to spare, so we spend some of our holiday cash not because we are hungry, but just to get a seat in a restaurant.
When we get to our destination airport, we have had transfers of 2 hours. So by my calculations we left home at 3.30pm, and by the time we take our 10 hour flight we have been travelling for 16.5 hours. Allowing 2 hours in transfers, and 30 minutes waiting for suitcases at the airport we arrive at our destination tired irritable, having spent 19 hours travelling. It can be worse, if you have a stop for three hours on the way in say Dubai or Singapore, you could easily be travelling for 24 hours or more.
Thirteen days later you have to do it all again, but that is not what the savvy Traveller will do.
Let us look at what is different.
Firstly the savvy traveller, will check in online, and book his seats using a website called SeatGuru to make sure his family gets the best recommended seats on the flight. In a flash this means he joins a far shorter queue at the airport because he only has to drop his bags. It also means he doesn’t have to be there before 9pm.
The next thing he does is to book the ‘Meet and Greet’ chauffeured service at the airport, It is a little more expensive, but you get met outside the departure terminal and a nice person takes your car away and parks it for you, so you can just amble into Check In dump your bags, and go through Security at around 9.15 pm when the early evening rush is over.
The savvy Traveller is probably a member of the Priority pass Lounge card, so the family goes to the lounge, where there is free food and beverages, both alcoholic and non alcoholic, and sits in peace and tranquillity, quite relaxed until it is time to depart. Even then he won’t move early, but will arrive as the queue to board is tiny.
At the destination, he will be met by a personal transfer vehicle and will be on his way whilst the coach transfers are still waiting for the last holidaymakers to arrive. His transfer will probably take an hour less than the rest of us, and he will be enjoying his first cocktail by the pool whilst the others are still arriving.
The reverse journey is exactly the same, with time saved, and hassle avoided. In most cases the savvy traveller will fly direct if he can, cutting out several exhausting hours hanging around foreign airports, but if he has no choice he simply escapes to the lounge!!
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Article Title: Making Your Long Haul Flight to Your Holiday Destination Less Hassle
Author: Ian SG Smith
Word Count: 895
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A holiday in the Far East will include a long haul flight, we all recognise this, and in the planning stage a ten hour flight doesn’t seem that bad. There will be movies to watch, books to read, food to eat, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages to be had. More than likely it will be a night flight, and so we can sleep most of the way, so it can’t be that bad.
Nevertheless a lot of folks do it once and then say never again, it was all just too much hassle. Then there are the savvy travellers who take it all in their stride, and that is because they know how to lessen some of the things that can make flying a long way extremely tedious.
Strangely enough it isn’t the flight. There is enough to do, and the actual journey need not be that awful, it is what lies at each end of the journey that can make flying unbearable.
What exactly does the author mean my a comment like that?
It’s simple really, because what is advertised as a ten hour flight is possibly as much as a twenty hour journey. It is the ten hours or more that you spend getting to airports, hanging around at airports, and in travelling from the airport to your final destination that wears you out.
To break that down into little chunks of time, let us take the example of our family flying to the Far East, and we will say our flight departs at 10pm. We live 120 miles from our nearest suitable International Airport, so we need to allow 3 hours for the car journey. The airline tells us we need to be checking in at 7.30 pm, so this means we need to leave home in theory at 4.30pm. In fact we are now driving into rush hour, so perhaps we need to allow longer, so we end up leaving at 3.30pm.
We also know we need to get to the long term car park, unload our cases, walk to the bus stop, and wait for the bus, all of which takes time. If it is wet and horribly cold we need clothes that we won’t require for our holiday, but we will have to carry with us anyway.
We finally get into Check In and stand in a long snaking queue for what seems like hours, struggle through security with the teeming thousands and end up in a packed departure lounge. There is hardly a seat to spare, so we spend some of our holiday cash not because we are hungry, but just to get a seat in a restaurant.
When we get to our destination airport, we have had transfers of 2 hours. So by my calculations we left home at 3.30pm, and by the time we take our 10 hour flight we have been travelling for 16.5 hours. Allowing 2 hours in transfers, and 30 minutes waiting for suitcases at the airport we arrive at our destination tired irritable, having spent 19 hours travelling. It can be worse, if you have a stop for three hours on the way in say Dubai or Singapore, you could easily be travelling for 24 hours or more.
Thirteen days later you have to do it all again, but that is not what the savvy Traveller will do.
Let us look at what is different.
Firstly the savvy traveller, will check in online, and book his seats using a website called SeatGuru to make sure his family gets the best recommended seats on the flight. In a flash this means he joins a far shorter queue at the airport because he only has to drop his bags. It also means he doesn’t have to be there before 9pm.
The next thing he does is to book the ‘Meet and Greet’ chauffeured service at the airport, It is a little more expensive, but you get met outside the departure terminal and a nice person takes your car away and parks it for you, so you can just amble into Check In dump your bags, and go through Security at around 9.15 pm when the early evening rush is over.
The savvy Traveller is probably a member of the Priority pass Lounge card, so the family goes to the lounge, where there is free food and beverages, both alcoholic and non alcoholic, and sits in peace and tranquillity, quite relaxed until it is time to depart. Even then he won’t move early, but will arrive as the queue to board is tiny.
At the destination, he will be met by a personal transfer vehicle and will be on his way whilst the coach transfers are still waiting for the last holidaymakers to arrive. His transfer will probably take an hour less than the rest of us, and he will be enjoying his first cocktail by the pool whilst the others are still arriving.
The reverse journey is exactly the same, with time saved, and hassle avoided. In most cases the savvy traveller will fly direct if he can, cutting out several exhausting hours hanging around foreign airports, but if he has no choice he simply escapes to the lounge!!
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