If you intend to see a lot of the U.S. during your trip you might be wondering which airline to use to hop between States. A new airline called Skybus is now operating with budget domestic flights. These flights will only interest you if you don’t mind flying into airports outside the major ones, such as Burbank instead of LAX (Los Angeles) and Bellingham instead of Seattle’s Seattle-Tacoma International (aka Sea-Tac). Skybus has budget fares but charges for just about everything else. www.skybus.com.
Virgin Atlantic has started flying from Heathrow to Chicago (www.virgin-atlantic.com)
Easyjet is now flying from Bristol to Milan’s Milpensa (www.easyjet.com)
Flybe has started flights from Southampton to Frankfurt (www.flybe.com)
Flyglobespan is now offering budget flights from several UK airports to destinations in Canada (www.flyglobespan.com)
MAXjet, the business-class airline will fly from Stansted to Los Angeles from August 30th (www.maxjet.com)
Claustrophobic travellers won’t be taking up the offer of Indian airline Jet Airways for a private cabin on flights from Heathrow to Mumbai. First class passengers can book a private ‘suite’ with its own flat bed, flatscreen TV, wardrobe and sliding door. At 3’ x 8’ (26 sq. ft) this sounds more like a flying coffin than a suite. It’s okay if you’re sure you can sleep or watch TV for the entire trip, but I think I’d prefer some human company and gratefully sit in the screaming baby section. It’s also not for the budget traveller as fares are over £4,400 round trip! (www.jetairways.com)
We thought this tip was worth passing along… In many Caribbean Islands, including Barbados, Grenada, Antigua and St. Lucia it is an offence to wear camouflage clothing. We saw a report of a traveller having an item of camouflage clothing confiscated in Antigua. As this type of clothing is currently very fashionable we’d advise you to do a double check of the items your children are planning to wear and unpack any of these items pronto or face losing them!
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