benson We had a nightmare journey down the mountain from Val D’Isere about 8-9 years ago. Maybe 7 hours on the coach back to Chambery? Swore never again, and been easy to stick to that.

    RichM I’ve flown 4 times this year, might be 5 before the end of the year. What does that make me??

    An absolute winner!

      Remember flying to Leeds a few years ago to go to the Yorkshire Dales.

      Was about £100 cheaper than getting the rattler.

        Was a great trip, are some unbelievable food!

        Smallman1 this is true, the train prices are obscene in the UK plus the service is shit, I have no idea how the intend to get people to use them, environmental concerns isn’t going to cut it when your wallet gets raped to travel a few miles.

            Interestingly, there are no direct flights from any London airport to Leeds.

            I wonder if Smallman flew via Amsterdam. Or maybe via SPIKE ISLAND.

            Dave clearly missed the “a few years ago” part.

            The daft idiot.

              Lads, I’ve just checked and it was Manchester we flew into and not Leeds.

              More lies I hear you say?!

                The question is how did inter UK flights between major cities become a thing? If it was faster, cheaper, better by train then there would be no market for it to succeed

                  Hursty Apparently BA make fuck all from the MAN-LHR flights, it is mostly run as a feeder to Terminal 5 for easy onward journeys.

                  And for someone like me, I would definitely go KLM or Emirates and totally fuck BA off if they didn’t provide it.

                    Hursty totally agree. Trains should be a public service that is affordable. It’s crazy the prices of trains these days, and they are often a poor service

                        Smallman1 there did used to be British midland flights in the early 2000s

                          Hursty The question is how did inter UK flights between major cities become a thing? If it was faster, cheaper, better by train then there would be no market for it to succeed

                          There’s an answer to your question in here somewhere Hurety!

                            I found out yesterday that the carbon cost of training an AI language model is the equivalent of 300 return flights from Paris to NYC. There’s your perspective now, lads. We’re doomed.

                            • Amps replied to this.

                              You would think they would build Datacentres close to the source of renewable energy to tap into excess generation more easily thus reducing their impact….but they don’t

                              Same with battery storage facilities, what happened to Britvolt? Shit canned by the Uk gov

                              Yet the individual will be blamed no doubt

                              LT42 We’re doomed.

                              But… AI is going to save us…