sk736 wrote:I booked a trip for June 2017 on Vueling's recently announced AMS/MAN service. I got an e-mail today to say that I've been re-routed AMS-BCN-MAN (which doesn't work for me) and the direct service is no longer bookable on their website. Anyone know what's going on?
Armodeen wrote:MAN - AMS is still like 14 daily or something. Just take the refund and rebook.
777klm wrote:Quite surprised this is what they come up with as a solution instead of routing you through LHR on BA.
eurowings wrote:Armodeen wrote:MAN - AMS is still like 14 daily or something. Just take the refund and rebook.
Exactly what I did. I was half tempted to fly via BCN but I just know it was not a great idea with Vueling.
http://www.catalannewsagency.com/society-science/item/vueling-president-admits-having-failed-to-solve-the-company-chaos-of-the-last-weeks
President of the Catalan low-cost airline Vueling, Javier Sánchez-Prieto admitted that the company failed to give explanations regarding the numerous flight delays and cancellations that passengers travelling from or to Barcelona El Prat airport had to suffer throughout the last few weeks. “We have been really focused on trying to solve it but I must admit we have failed”, he said this Wednesday in an interview with Catalan newspaper ‘Ara’. “Honestly and being self-critical we should have appeared ahead of time and communicated better”. Vueling cancelled more than 60 flights in the past four days and most of those flights which did operate suffered from delays, affecting nearly 78,000 passengers. A situation which was made worse by the repeated strikes of French air traffic controllers’, the last of which started last Monday.
PatrickZ80 wrote:The cheapest option would perhaps have been Eindhoven - Manchester on Ryanair. There is a shuttle bus available between the city of Amsterdam and Eindhoven airport that can be booked through Ryanair, so flying out of Eindhoven instead of Amsterdam is not so much of a problem.
PatrickZ80 wrote:But you don't have to drive yourself, you only have to sit in the bus and let the bus driver do the driving. You can also take the train from Amsterdam to Eindhoven and then take the bus from Eindhoven central station to the airport, that might be faster but more expensive.
Given that a transfer in Barcelona was an option if it had not been so tight I figure it doesn't matter much how long the journey takes, and a bus ride is not much different from a flight in that.