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Our online field study quotes exclude the cost of travel
insurance and flights to Barcelona.
Through our association with NST Educational Tours, the UK’s
leading operator of Educational Visits, we are able to provide a full transport
service for UK groups by way of air travel, UK airport coach transfers etc.
through favourable negotiated group rates with a wide range of suppliers. This
association provides ABTA/ATOL bonding.
Making your own flight arrangements can save you money and give
you more flexibility in choice of airlines and flight times. Besides Barcelona
(Prat) airport, airlines also fly to Reus and Girona, both between one or two
hours drive from Barcelona. Hotel transfers from airports other than Barcelona
involve a small surcharge that is included in the quote.
The low-cost airlines are:
Ryan
Air provide low cost flights from London Stansted, Birmingham or Bournemouth
airports to Girona for as little as £40 return. There are also flights from
London Stansted or Luton to Reus. Bookings can be made online six months in
advance for up to 50 passengers, but full payment must be made at the time of
booking. The onward journey to Barcelona from both Girona and Reus is
approximately 1 hour by coach. An additional €400 should be allowed to cover
the extra airport-hotel transfer costs.
EasyJet flies to
Barcelona from Liverpool, Luton, Stansted, Bristol, East Midlands, Newcastle,
Gatwick, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. The fares are from £50. A maximum of
eight tickets may be purchased at a single booking online. Therefore if there
are more than eight people travelling, you will need to make multiple bookings.
If you require assistance, ring the easyJet reservation centre on +44 (0) 870 6
000 000. Please note however, that their agents are unable to make the bookings
over the phone if the date of travel is more than one month in advance.
BMI Baby (0870 264 2229)
flies direct from Manchester and East Midlands airports to Barcelona, with fares
from £50. http://www.flybmi.com/
British Midland
(0870 6070555) flies to Barcelona from East Midlands, Manchester and London.
British Airways (0845 7733377)
flies from Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham and Glasgow to Barcelona and Girona
with prices that are now competitive with the low-cost airlines (February 2003).
(groups): tel. 0870 5332266
Iberia (0845
6012854) has flights direct to Barcelona from Newcastle, Birmingham, Heathrow
and Manchester from £118.50. Iberia also fly from Edinburgh, Glasgow and
Aberdeen. They are particularly good in dealing with group bookings.
Monarch
has flights direct to Barcelona from Manchester from £28. Group booking
enquiries email reservationsgroups@monarch-airlines.com
(10+ passengers). Telephone group bookings of 15+ passengers +44 (0) 8700 133
123
MyTravelLite.com
has direct flights to Barcelona from Birmingham. Online bookings can be made for
up to 25 passengers at a time. Group booking enquiries for 26 passengers or more
can be made by clicking here.
UK telephone 08701 564 564
In cases where students and accompanying staff have to use more
than one flight, all flights will be met upon arrival and transferred to their
hotel, but a surcharge may be incurred depending upon the time delay between
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