[Travel] Your next flight........hopefully with updates as time goes by.

[Change at Barnham]

It will be on easyJet from Gatwick to Inverness to see grandchildren to moment the regulations allow us.

When it comes to the carbon footprint of a visit to Inverness, how do I calculate the difference between two people flying, or driving in a petrol car 600 miles?
Which is more harmful?

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Offsetting isn't real - the carbon is still pumped out regardless of how many trees the airline plant. It's a gimmack to make people feel better - like HT and his 'zero carbon footprint'

I appreciate that. But it does indicate a level of awareness of the issue and might lead people to be more considerate flyers. The answer is of course to fly much less.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

It will be on easyJet from Gatwick to Inverness to see grandchildren to moment the regulations allow us.

When it comes to the carbon footprint of a visit to Inverness, how do I calculate the difference between two people flying, or driving in a petrol car 600 miles?
Which is more harmful?

I don't know, but it's a great question. I think in the very long term (decades, not years) we'll probably have to accept that we're going to be able to travel less often - not just fly less often. That might lead to a less mobile population, which would mean seeing the Grandkids is less of a mission because they're more likely to live nearby.

 

[The Wookiee]

Gatwick to Antalya- 20th September

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Gatwick

 

[Goring-by-Seagull]

I was due to get married last April, so missed out on a stag do to Germany in March, a "mini-moon" to Cyprus in May and a Honeymoon in The Maldives in September.

So we are now due to marry this April, and hopefully will be able to get to the Maldives in September

 

[happypig]

Flying ? I've not even thought about getting the train to Brighton to meet some mates yet.

When I do fly it will either be to Corfu in September or Southern Spain next March. I'm about 30% confident on the former and 75% on the latter.

 

[Driver8]

Vancouver in June. Already moved it forward a year and will probably have to do the same again.

 

[Albion_Dave]

Gatwick to Aruba early July.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Have two short trips to Berlin and Prague planned in June for gigs. Am so unceratin about if they'll even happen that I've yet to book flights/accommodation, but will leave that until a month or so beforehand if this part of the world starts trending towards opening up again.

Also have a two week break in Slovenia for a music festival at end of July/start of August planned. Slightly more optimistic about that as it's capped at 20k people, so nowhere near the size, setup or logistics of something like Glastonbury needed. Having said that, it's really too soon to tell.

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Being a nosey music fan which gigs and festival are you planning to go to?

 

[atfc village]

About 2 weeks after its deemed safe too . Where? I dont care.

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

Being a nosey music fan which gigs and festival are you planning to go to?

Rammstein in Berlin, Iron Maiden in Prague and Metal Days Festival in Slovenia.

All events I had planned out logistically well last year until COVID hit. Rammstein and Maiden were a few days apart, so could do both in one trip. Now they're about a10 days apart so it'll cost me more to do both, but will be worth the enjoyment. But as I said in my last post, that's if they happen at all this year.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Our annual jaunt to Kefalonia, now rescheduled for August, originally planned for May, but put back as l don't expect that to happen, (TUI Boeing 737 to and from Gatwick).

Then in the autumn the plan is to go and visit friends in New Zealand, nothing booked yet though.

 

[Boroseagull]

January 2022 (hopefully) Malaga - Buenos Aries, cruise Antartica and fly back from Santiago.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

About 2 weeks after its deemed safe too . Where? I dont care.

Probably the wisest decision on this thread, wait and see first, we have been disappointed several times in the past thinking it would be safe to book, or even travel by now.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

January 2022 (hopefully) Malaga - Buenos Aries, cruise Antartica and fly back from Santiago.

Antarctica, Shackleton and Scott territory, two of my boyhood heroes. Can l come?

 

[dwayne]

Have a flight booked from Miami to the Bahamas next week but will probably not take it, risky getting back in the states.

Spent December in quintana roo (left while London was tier 2) spent January so far in Miami. Pretty pointless going home until I have to as Mexico and Florida are pretty much normal.

If things are still bad in England at the end march might head back to Mexico.

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[StonehamPark]

Vancouver in June. Already moved it forward a year and will probably have to do the same again.

What are your plans over in Vancouver, assuming travel is on?

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Antarctica, Shackleton and Scott territory, two of my boyhood heroes. Can l come?

See it while you can!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Rammstein in Berlin, Iron Maiden in Prague and Metal Days Festival in Slovenia.

All events I had planned out logistically well last year until COVID hit. Rammstein and Maiden were a few days apart, so could do both in one trip. Now they're about a10 days apart so it'll cost me more to do both, but will be worth the enjoyment. But as I said in my last post, that's if they happen at all this year.

Nice one. I’ve seen Maiden in Berlin myself. In fact they played the day before AC/DC with Axel in Leipzig which is about 90 mins away; that was a mad couple of days I can tell you. Although I listen and go to gigs of other music these days I still have a soft spot for my teenage years as a headbanger - I still take in gigs by the bands I liked in that at era.

Hope it works out one way or another.