As management and the RMT have failed to come to an agreement over pay, there's a strike on the Heathrow Express and Heathrow Connect routes over today and tomorrow.Heathrow Express is on a limited daytime and evening timetableHeathrow Connect is suspended. Use First Great Western services insteadSee http://www.heathrowexpress.com/amendedtimetable Otherwise, if you're … [Read more...]

Southern Railways are having an advanced purchase sale of fare, with prices slashed by up to 90%.If you need cheap tickets to and from Gatwick, this could be the chance to snap them up for a song. Shame the site is crawling along though...Head to: http://www.southernrailway.com/offers/birthday-ticket-fiesta/And yes, it's Advanced Tickets only - with all the restrictions they … [Read more...]

The wonderful Volcano known as Grimsvotn seems to have taken a rest, and is just spewing white smoke.Flights have been resumed to whatever can be classed as normal, Meanwhile, the ash cloud itself is clearing, with NATS saying UK airspace was expected to remain clear until 1900 BST on Wednesday.Forecasters said that if eruptions from the Grimsvotn volcano continued at "current … [Read more...]

Well you unlucky people, I'm still writing the Trip report of my travels last weekend. But for your sublime entertainment, some of the pictures are up, and the Videos are up on my Youtube Channel (Alas the videos from the last Chicago trip are lost along with that dratted phone...)Videos:Take off from BHX - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zEH1ycssFcLanding at ZRH at night - … [Read more...]

Well it seems to be clearing the UK according to NATS:Latest information from the Met Office shows that following the recent eruption of Grímsvötn in Iceland, no volcanic ash is currently predicted in airspace over the UK from 0100 UK time on Wednesday 25th May. As the volcano continues to erupt, NATS will continue to monitor the latest Met Office information … [Read more...]