scoobygurllover

hi, im looking to find a cheap, no frills flight, one way in june to London preferably to heathrow from aberdeen. Wheres the best place to look for a cheap flights because im getting various prices off sites, ranging up to £220. Any help please?

Andy Hall

Easyjet fly to Luton, if you book now you should be able to do it for about £40.00 return with taxes. Then its just a short train ride into Kings Cross.

scoobygurllover

well im not familiar with the area down there but where im aiming to get to is brize norton, near oxford. to be honest i have no idea how to get there etc, and i dont want to drive all the way from aberdeen.will that be near or is there any better options to gettin there easily???

Andy Hall

Its 60 miles which is exactly the same as from Heathrow. Bristol is also about 60 miles but I'm not sure if EJ fly there from Aberdeen, try the website.

Drunken Bungle Whore

BMI (Much, MUCH nicer than Sleazy Jet) are doing one way tickets for around £14 in mid June.

www.flybmi.com


There are coaches from Heathrow to Oxford about every 15 mins during the day.

HTH

scoobygurllover

Im jus pretty worried about getting lost etc, because i never been to london before, and have no idea where im going. I want to go down to meet my boyfriend off the plane when he gets home from Iraq. And i dont even know where the airbase is lol. Looking like a very scary road trip to me lol

scoobygurllover

I went on and checked out the prices for bmi (thanks drunken) and the prices are good and then there about £21 of tax added so for various times during the day they fluctuate between £34 to £52. Which aint too bad. Next question, can anyone help me with finding out about buses or rail travel down there?

Drunken Bungle Whore

I'm in that sort of mood today! OK - getting from Heathrow to Brize Norton.

First of all get from Heathrow to Oxford - there are loads of coaches (National Express, Oxford Link etc) which all leave from the central bus station at Heathrow - bang in the middle of terminals 1,2 and 3.

Failing that you can get the Heathrow Express train and change at Hayes & Harlington.

Next you just need a bus from Oxford Railway station to Brize Norton.

Just go into Google (www.google.co.uk) to find the relevant web pages. The Brize Norton web page had loads of useful info and links to help you find it.

Lastly - don't panic - you won't have to go anywhere near central London!

Good luck!

scoobygurllover

Thanks for your help. Im not used to traveling on my own especially in a place i dont know well at all. Ill go check that out now. Thanks

Kiwi

I stay in Aberdeen & my parents home is about 10 miles from Brize Norton.

The best way is to fly to Heathrow.

Get the bus from the Central Bus Station at heathrow (Signposted and a 5 minute walk from terminal 1) the link for these buses is as follows

http://www.theairline.info/lhr_tt.htm

No need to book, the buses run every 30 minutes and takes about an hour to oxford and they offer a very efficient service. Go to the bus station in Oxford (called Gloucester Green)

From Oxford you can either get a bus or a taxi. It is approx 18 miles from Oxford to the Base.

The town next to Brize Norton Air base is called Carterton although there is a bigger town about 5 miles away called Witney.

The timetable for buses is here

http://www.stagecoachbus.com/oxfords...ney&x=115&y=13

Hope everything goes ok

Kiwi

scoobygurllover

heya thanks for ur help kiwi. I been checking out flights for going down there, gonna book one soon. Well its not till june so wont know what happens till then. Ill let you know if i get lost lol. thanks

Mr Sympathy

try cheapflights.co.uk for a starter


failing that megabus do a service aberdeen to london for under a fiver i think if in enough advance and you can handle the pain of a bus over that distance for the cost!!

scoobygurllover

seriously? a fiver? no way, that wudnt even cover the fuel from here to dundee!! jus out of cursiosity, how long would it be on the bus from here to there?

carl

Bit of a pain seeing the bus drive past Oxford then having to get back there, though. Do National Express do anything Aberdeen->Oxford?

scoobygurllover

I have no idea, ive only ever had to book flights to cyprus myself to see my boyfriend, everything else has ever been organised by my parents. Thats why i appear, hence am, so clueless about the whole matter! lol