Help finding the cheapest flight to Calgary (immigration)

EveryWhere

Nick_C wrote: »

Personal preference. I wouldn't want to be at Edinburgh airport at 5am and have five and a half hours waiting at Gatwick for a 9 hour flight in economy.

You can get the Premier Inn at Gatwick North for £40 a night

I CAN get a cheaper one-way trip if I'm willing to accept a 22 hour travel time! lol

The OP's words in post #6

Nick_C

I wouldn't think of 14 hours relaxing in a hotel as travel time, but as I said, it's personal preference.

EveryWhere

Nick_C wrote: »

I wouldn't think of 14 hours relaxing in a hotel as travel time, but as I said, it's personal preference.

The OP is not going on holiday....

Though I too hate early morning flights.

Nick_C

EveryWhere wrote: »

The OP is not going on holiday....

Did anyone say he is? I'm under no such illusion.

EveryWhere

Nick_C wrote: »

Did anyone say he is? I'm under no such illusion.

It seems you just want to post your 'opinion'. Regardless of whether it has been posted before or whether the OP already indicated that he wasn't keen on the 22 hour option.

It's clear these options had already been covered by post #7.

OP wrote about the 22 hour option and I posted the shorter option, pointing out that booking direct with EasyJet gave the option of their connection service.

So nothing you posted was news.

Yes, it's down to personal preference. But since this is about the OP, they've have not indicated a preference for the 22 hour option.
In the end they might reconsider, but really no need for you to bang on about it.

I already agreed with you that early morning flights aren't optimal, so why are you still going on?

Nick_C

My initial comment was my opinion that the EasyJet/WestJet option was excellent value, and that there was the option to do this with an overnight stopover at LGW.

OP asked me some questions which I answered, trying to be helpful.

You made comments about my posts, which I replied to.

So why are you still going on?

But I must apologise. I thought I was commenting on a public forum, but I have clearly intruded on a private conversation between you and OP.

Your post #7 was clearly expert, absolute, authoritative, and irrefutable, and I should not have had the temerity to make any comment that diverged from it in any way, no matter how helpful my intentions.

Please accept my most humble and profuse apologies.

PS - hope I never find myself sitting next to you on a 9 hour flight.

I will let you have the final eristic comment.

Goodbye.

EveryWhere

^^

The ignore list.... it really helps in keeping just the useful parts of the thread in view.

bairn7

Thanks all. I've decided on the Easyjet/Westjet flight through Gatwick. As you say, an overnight layover isn't so bad.


Appreciate the help!

EveryWhere

bairn7 wrote: »

Thanks all. I've decided on the Easyjet/Westjet flight through Gatwick. As you say, an overnight layover isn't so bad.


Appreciate the help!

It will add the cost of overnight accommodation to the trip, since the flight price is much the same as the day trip.

Overnight trip costs £247.27 + overnight accommodation.
Day trip £251.27.

You'll be on exactly the same flight, on the same day(14th), to Canada.
The only difference is that you won't have to get up in the middle of the night to catch to flight from EDI. I hate morning flights because of this.

The saving on the cost of the accommodation can help to mitigate the cost of your baggage.
Though on the other hand, there is a lot less stress involved with catching flights with the overnight option, as long as the GatwickConnects desk will accept your luggage sixteen hours before the WestJet flight is due to leave. No getting up in the middle of the night and a relatively relaxed procedure to the WestJet flight from the Gatwick North Terminal hotel. For a cost of just £36 more.


https://www.easyjet.com/en/worldwide