The last posting says it all and especially the Isle of Man website where the GBP15 flights IOM-Belfast or Blackpool can be found.  The latest way to avoid the UK Passenger Departure Taxes for flights out of Europe lead over Dublin.  Its all there.

Slane lhiats / Cheers
Gari the

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What started out as a purely Manx guide on planes, boats and trains, became an Anglo/Celtic/Manx website and is now a worldwide website and ever growing

The part applicable to the Isle of Man (and Channel Isles) can be found at http://travel.holidays.com/iomci and this leads to
the worldwide site at http://travel.holidays.com then to http://travel.holidays.com/tips and http://travel.holidays.com/recommendations
as well as to
www.freewebs.com/travelreports and www.freewebs.com/airnews

You will see that an option to Mount Murray Consultancy webpage is there and that has links to almost all the island's photographs sites

Hope this is helpful

Gari

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Updating Sunday, 8:13 PM

The above mentioned sites are constantly updating and expanding

Interesting for the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are the expansions on their page at http://travel.holidays.com/iomci wherre you can find the latest in how to get to and from and around Mann and where to stay, wine & dine and what to do here.

Do take a look in at that site from time to time

Slane lhiats

Gari the

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Some IOM and UK flight news of interest (some already reported). 

See AirNews for full updates

15 Jul Justplanes update per 13 Jul

For all routes starting and stopping between now and April 2008 see >> . Full Jul 07-Apr 08 list

Jul07 
27  bmiregional  Aberdeen - Brussels E-145 STOP
28  Whoosh  Birmingham - Dundee ATR-42 START
28  Whoosh  Birmingham - Newquay ATR-42 START
28  Whoosh  Newquay - Dundee ATR-42 START
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Sep07 
03  Manx2  Isle of Man - Gloucester B-1900 START
08  Manx2  Jersey - Isle of Man B-1900 START
08  Manx2  Jersey - Gloucester B-1900 START
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Oct07 
28  Aer Lingus  Dublin - London LGW A320 START
28  flybe   Isle of Man - London LTN DH8-Q400  START
28  flybe   Southampton - Brussels E-145 START
31  flyglobespan  Liverpool - New York JFK B757-200 STOP
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Nov07 
23  tigerairways  Melbourne - Gold Coast  A320 START
23  tigerairways  Melbourne - Mackay A320 START
23  tigerairways  Melbourne - Rockhampton A320 START
30  tigerairways  Melbourne - Darwin A320 START
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Dec07 
02  Arkefly  Amsterdam - St Marten - Curacao B767-300 START
13  easyJet  Bournemouth - Grenoble  A319 START
14  easyJet  Birmingham - Geneva A319 START
15  flybe   Newquay - Geneva DH8-Q400 START
22  easyJet  Birmingham - Grenoble A319 START
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Feb08 
02  flybe   Isle of Man - Geneva Dash 8-Q400 START
02  flybe   Jersey - Geneva Dash 8-Q400 START
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From AirNews

Flybe.com programme incl Isle of Man to Geneva. Luton is back

• Isle of Man - Luton (fm 28 Oct Tu,Th,Fr,Su),  -Geneva (fm 02Feb Sa only)
• Southampton to Brussels and its first winter service to Avignon
• Cardiff Intl to Paris Charles de Gaulle
• Jersey to Geneva  • Newquay to Geneva
• First winter service Edinburgh and Newquay

(from www.flybe.com Home then Jul 04 news  Brand new routes for Winter 2007 schedule!)

Manx2 to commence flights to Gloucestershire Airport and Jersey in Sept

Manx2 (http://www.manx2.com) who fly Beechcraft 1900D, Metroliner and LET410 announce

Isle of Man - Gloucester (M5) (Starts 03 Sep)   Beech 1900D
-IOM-GLO - Mon-Fri  07.45 / 08.40 & 17.30 / 18.25 . Sat 08.05 / 09.00.  Sun 15.00± / 15.55±,  14.00† / 14.55†
-GLO-IOM - Mon-Fri  09.00 / 09.55 & 18.55 / 19.50.  Sat 12.15 13.10 . Sun 19.15± / 20.10±, 17.55† / 18.50†

Gloucester (M5) - Jersey (Starts 08th Sep)  Beech 1900D
-GLO-JER -Sat  09.25 / 10.25. Sun  16.25± / 17.25± , 15.15† / 16.15†
-JER-GLO -Sat 10.50 / 11.50.   Sun  17.50± / 18.50±, 16.35† / 17.35†

Isle of Man - Jersey (Starts 08 Sep)  Beech 1900D
-IOM-JER  Sat 08.05 / 10.25.  Sun 15.00± / 17.25±, 14.00† / 16.15†
-JER-IOM Sat 10.50 / 13.10.   Sun 17.50± / 20.10±,  16.35† / 18.50†

± - Available from start date until 27/10    † - Avialable from 28/10/07 only 

The weekend IOM-JER flight stops down at GLO.  Manx2 offers GBP 98 return flights (incl taxes and fees) to GLO from IOM.   IOM-JER return comes to GBP 274 incl for this Oct.

Gloucestershire Airport (GLO / EGBJ) is located just outside Cheltenham next to the M5 at Staverton.  Location map at Manx2.com and also at www.gloucestershireairport.co.uk/Directions.php .  The airport has an Aviator Restaurant and a Pilot Shop (in case need a GPS ,  Excellent location for islanders interested in the following locations:  10 mins drive are Cheltenham (racing) & Gloucester. Worcester 27 mins.  40 mins to Swindon or Bristol.  45 mins Shrewsbury and Warwick. 49 mins to  Newport,  Hereford.  1 hr to Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon, Newbury, Leaminton Spa, Cardiff.  Reading is a 75 mins drive.  [ send green star]

Do come and join our NEW group with an email to
travel-holidays-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Subject and text: Subs

This is a similar group to the Airnuts Care2 group and is intended to supplement the ability to discuss, contribute and feed back travel reports, travel links and recommendations which you might have from your own experiences. 
It doesn't, however, have a 6'000 character text limit.

If you prefer not to receive more mail, simply go (after joining) to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Travel-Holidays/ then to
Edit Membership and select "Special Notices" which will limit any mail to important notices from moderation and serious virus warnings

This is what the homepage looks like at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Travel-Holidays/

 
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Cheers and hope to see you there

Gari the

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What with Aer Arann no longer flying to Luton from Mann (from 9 Jan onwards) and Liverpool wanting to charge £2 for entering the security area (Ryanair and easyJet think differently) and with all the other news coming up such as a Global Budget Airline joint ventured by Air Asia, easyJet and Virgin, it is best to check out the sites mentioned below for the latest and to have a peep at AirNews regularly

Things are changing all the time - too much so to mentioned here on an up to date basis

Happy travels
Gari

(just back from a Dublin-Tenerife return for free i.e. £25 rtn incl taxes etc)

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My daughter and I are on a fast trip to Ireland in Feb., and my hope is to pop over to the Isle, as well. This info will be very helpful.

Thanks so much

Linda

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What doesn't necessarily reflect here are the updates of

http://travel.holidays.com  For the world

and

http://travel.holidays.com/iomci  For the Isle of Man / Channel Isles

What you can pack into your suitcases, handluggage and lots more Tips and Recommendations are also to be found via the Options section of those two sites

You will also find

http://www.freewebs.com/airnews (with the last 4 mths' news too)

http://www.freewebs.com/travelreports (presently in re-hash WIP)

http://travel.holidays.com/tips 

http://travel.holidays.com/recommendations 

not to mention

http://culinary.senses.com for the Cooks

http://ask.dad.com for storm, flood and fire events on Man and

http://ask.dad.com/protection which has the basic FREE way to protect your computer

Lastly there are links to my original and first ever webpage where the non-financial section will lead you to all photo sites of Mann and

http://great.outdoors.com which is our new nature site which already has a "Glenology" section with nearly 120 glen names to work on.

For travellers - especially sailors who don't want to fly - we have worked on Greenland, Iceland and the Faroes so Scandinavian and (Scottish new air links) are now covered.

If the updating date has changed at any orf those site then something exciting has been added.  Presently, it is Pt2 of THC that is being expanded to cover every and each country in Africa, Asia and SE Asia

No need to save favourites (bookmarks) re travel - its all there and , if not, use the feedback email to let us know

Have a good week
Gari - from the rainy and windy IOM

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Well, Alpha One DID fly one Southampton-IOM flight on Nov 7 and then promised to be back with Southampton, Blackpool and Edinburgh on Nov 24.  Now there is no mention of Blackpool but Edinburgh (Dec) and  Cardiff and Southampton (in Jan)  instead.  I guess we'll wait and see what happens first and then see if it happens regularly.

Meanwhile, the Belgian VLM is busy providing the London-City service and the Irish Aer Arann has £13.99 fares to Manchester and London-Luton

Taxes/Charges/Fees
Companies like easyJet who show inclusive prices are often thought to be dearer than the exclusive prices no-frills airlines.  Don't believe it!  I looked at IOM to Manchester, Luton and Liverpool return today and find to my horror that leaving from Liverpool is substantially dearer than from Manchester or Luton. 
Leaving from IOM is the expected one way £15 approx.  From Manchester it is not much different and from Luton neither but from Liverpool it is a whopping £30 - making the £13.99 each way to and from Liverpool + £45 taxes/charges on the return fare (round trip). 
TIP:  Fly TO Liverpool but SAIL back

Good news by fall 2006 for those flying out of Florida and California as Aer Lingus is getting in on the open skies possibilities quickly and DUBLIN is the place to head for.  The US could be in for some competetive transatlantic air prices in the coming year.

Meanwhile, www.flyzoom.com and www.airtransat.ca get you from Canada to Europe (as far as Greece) and back (www.globespan.com for UK departures).  Both companies fly on to Florida/Caribbean destinations.  £89 fares common with about £45 taxes charges on leaving UK but only about £16 leaving Canada.
Flying from Canada to UK there are some super deals (note the $ is C$ at the .ca site) but it is rather complicated to find the site. 

You probably want to see Eire and Northern Ireland anyhow and Scotland and the Isle of Man are but a no-frills flight away.  It is also a Ryanair base (although the largest net by far is from Stansted)

Check out the latest news at AirNews which was updated for Nov 30 (will go to archives tomorrow) and up to Dec 02 today.  Use the Email link there if you have a question but ensure the automatic subject placer is not removed (a lot of Hi, Congratulations and Help mail gets auto-trashed at that account)

Gari

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Eagerly we await  the 7th and Alpha One's inaugural flight IOM-Southampton run by the 19yr old "Baby Branson" whose initial plans for Oxford to Cambridge never took off

Meanwhile, today Nov 1, the Belgian budget VLM Airlines took off from London City for the Isle of Man returning this evening.  This affords a new Brussels link with the island

Recently, the trusted Aer Arann which used to serve the IOM-Glasgow route but for long has maintained a Dublin-IOM service, is now flying Liverpool as promised and is due to fly Manchester and newly London Luton (both on the 24th).

How important is this on a world forum?  Well for those visiting the island (IOM) it is of importance as we were headed for an Atlantis type stranding with our best winter boat sold and the cheapest airlines pulling out.

Good news on the air services front and good news around the corner and about to be announced on the sailing front so the Isle of Man won't be stranded after all

A special hello to all Manxophiles

Gari of the

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I live in Washington state (US). My hubby moved her 2 1/2 yrs ago from Liverpool so we could get married. Anywho, next year we are planning a trip back to his home and I can't wait because we are also planning on visiting your fair island. I am so excited!!!!  This is a great link to help with the planning.

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The place where you can be kept most abreast with getting to and from Mann (and Europe) is at "Airnuts" http://travel.holidays.com and the latest news is at AirNews section.

You will also find sea, rail, airport changing and sleeping data at the Recommendations & Tips section.  Why not check out Travel Reports also?

Airnews will be updating today, Friday, and generally posts news every couple of days

More links and descriptions are to be found at the IsleofMan Yahoogroup - just ask or join (link at foot of above sites).

From a wet and windy IoM

Gari the

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Try http://www.ferryto.com/ if you prefer boating than flying Harmony.

I think Stena Lines and P&O might be useful for you

Many thanks for the green star - u r a sweetie

Cheers to all
Gari

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Just take a look at http://travel.holidays.com/ Harmony

Months of work have been put into that site which covers rail, bus, air, ship, accommodation and dining at both ends and all you need to get here - apart from swimming trunks and private small boat hire

All you need to do is click above and select - there are two IOMSPC boat sites.

Cheers

Gari

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* AOC = Airline Operating Certificate

The certificate which enables an airline to become an airline and which also determines its country of domicile.
Can be likened to the number plates of a road vehicle

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Many of you already know my MMC Worldwide Links site at http://travel.holidays.com which will get you here and us there as well as getting you from Vanuatu to Venezuela.
New airlines and stretches can be found at the AirNews option and TravelReports as well as Tips & Recommendations are also provided.

The site is constantly being updated and should meet your personal travel needs and is certainly worth checking out before visiting your travel agent.  Northern US travellers are advised to consider flying across the Atlantic from Canada as considerable savings can be made.

Tomorrow the 13th June 05 is really an unlucky day for the Isle of Man as the cheapest Liverpool stretch airline Emerald Airways is ceasing passenger business and EuroManx is taking over

Manx as it sounds, EuroManx flies as "Our flights are operated by EuroManx Airways GmbH" which is a German or Swiss limited company designation.  As the EuroManx livery has been photographed on Canadian, Irish and German registered airplanes to date and as EuroManx fly with Austrian, Swiss and UK registered planes too, goodness only knows what this AOC*-less Manx booking agency has as a domicile.  Offices in the Isle of Man don't make it a Manx airline and British compensation coverage for "belly upped" airlines will hardly apply to it.  More at AirNews today.

Gari

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