Cyprus away (5th September 2009) - charter travel

We interrupt this post to bring you a party political mod edit.

Post any info on organised travel relating to the Cyprus game here. I'll keep a summary of links and what have you in this post.

For other info on the game, see -

Flights
Accommodation (hotels to campsites)
The game (match tickets, kick off time, directions to the ground, etc)
Places (towns, internal travel, reccies, etc)
Pubs (incl meet ups)
General (things to do, other chat)

And now back to our regular scheduled post...

Would anyone be intrested in looking into chartering our own plane for the Georgia trip and or the Cyprus trip? Haven't a clue about how feasible it might be, but just throwing it out there for discussion?

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Originally Posted by DubinLondon

Would anyone be intrested in looking into chartering our own plane for the Georgia trip and or the Cyprus trip? Haven't a clue about how feasible it might be, but just throwing it out there for discussion?

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The GT Plane :eek:

ill fly ye over no bother

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Originally Posted by DubinLondon

Would anyone be intrested in looking into chartering our own plane for the Georgia trip and or the Cyprus trip? Haven't a clue about how feasible it might be, but just throwing it out there for discussion?

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well if we got 380 or thereabouts a 777 could be chartered. i'd imagine it wouldn't be cheap though. the fact we'd want the plane to sit around for a couple of days/fly back empty would be the serious issue.

Charter was looked at for some other game (Faroes I think) and was ridiculously expensive. I'd say SuperDave's points were the main reasons why.

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Originally Posted by SuperDave

well if we got 380 or thereabouts a 777 could be chartered. i'd imagine it wouldn't be cheap though. the fact we'd want the plane to sit around for a couple of days/fly back empty would be the serious issue.

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Charter was looked at for some other game (Faroes I think) and was ridiculously expensive. I'd say SuperDave's points were the main reasons why.

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Would there be an issue about getting a tour operator's licence??:eek:

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Originally Posted by AidoM

The GT Plane :eek:

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:eek: Nope :D

great idea..get aido on the case, you would get 380 no bother at all!!, it would be alot handier!!

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Originally Posted by citizenerased

great idea..get aido on the case, you would get 380 no bother at all!!, it would be alot handier!!

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Originally Posted by Green Tribe

Nope

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The Boss has decided :( :p :)

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Originally Posted by DubinLondon

Would anyone be intrested in looking into chartering our own plane for the Georgia trip and or the Cyprus trip? Haven't a clue about how feasible it might be, but just throwing it out there for discussion?

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I looked into it for the Faroes game and it was expensive. The problem is the empty legs or the plane waiting around on the tarmac for too long - pilots going out of hours etc etc.

Cyprus is easily accessible with a number of airlines from London among others. Access is not great from this country but you can still get to London easily enough despite the governments efforts.

Demand for Georgia probably isn't high enough and the distance involved is huge and would affect the cost.

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Originally Posted by gspain

I looked into it for the Faroes game and it was expensive. The problem is the empty legs or the plane waiting around on the tarmac for too long - pilots going out of hours etc etc.

Cyprus is easily accessible with a number of airlines from London among others. Access is not great from this country but you can still get to London easily enough despite the governments efforts.

Demand for Georgia probably isn't high enough and the distance involved is huge and would affect the cost.

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the only way to make it feasible in terms of cost is flying in about three hours before the game and out again immediately after. the dead time is absolutely killer in terms of price.

Anyone interested Falcon have just launched their 2009 summer brochure. Direct flights to Lanaca out Aug 30 Back Sep 6 €534 per person. Deposit €50 to be paid now and a further €80 by mid September, balance by end of June next.

Easyjet seem to be the only low cost carrier to Cyprus, and they are about €280 for 2008 around these dates from London.

Booked 20 of us to Larnaca, got price down to €450 pp, anyone interested pm me and you can hopefully get on to group rate. Payment direct to Falcon. lat time out we paid €300 heathrow to larnaca return and €70 Dublin to heathrow so its not a bad price

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Originally Posted by Greenforever

Booked 20 of us to Larnaca, got price down to €450 pp, anyone interested pm me and you can hopefully get on to group rate. Payment direct to Falcon. lat time out we paid €300 heathrow to larnaca return and €70 Dublin to heathrow so its not a bad price

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Is that just for flights:eek: or apts included as well

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Originally Posted by cobra

Is that just for flights:eek: or apts included as well

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flighfs only, falcon only do aya napa which is really for u25s limassol much better crack but make sure to stay in the town most apartments are 5 miles away

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Originally Posted by Greenforever

flighfs only, falcon only do aya napa which is really for u25s limassol much better crack but make sure to stay in the town most apartments are 5 miles away

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stayed in ayia napa the last two visits and intend doing same this time, flights were €240 and then €179.
Stayed in same apts both times, which are close enough to everything but far enough away for a good nights kip too:)

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Originally Posted by cobra

stayed in ayia napa the last two visits and intend doing same this time, flights were €240 and then €179.
Stayed in same apts both times, which are close enough to everything but far enough away for a good nights kip too:)

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what airline did you get those prices with?

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Originally Posted by Greenforever

what airline did you get those prices with?

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05; flew over with Helios airlines:eek: never so happy to set foot in Ireland again after flying with them
06; actually booked to go with them again:rolleyes: but they folded, so got our money back as booked through mastercard.. then booked with budgettravel, could not believe how cheap flights were but sure were not many fans there the second year, lucky them
If Ireland have good start to the campaign (fingers crossed) then those €450 flights could end up being good value, but I will hold out for a while yet.

Two of us booked for a week with falcon, €650 flights and accomodation, staying near ayia nappa

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Originally Posted by cobra

Have flights and accommodation booked 7 nights@ €380 each, out of leeds/bradford, hopefully ryanair bring out the cheap 1c flights to connect to leeds

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is that sat-sat ?