90 day rule

[Brains]

Thanks for that link. As a result I could not resist posting this comment on their website -:

"I flew as a First Officer on those aircraft 1967-69 from both Southampton till the base closed in 1967 and then Lydd. By then Silver City and Channel Air Bridge had been absorbed into British United Airways as BU Air Ferries. I was trained on a BUA sponsored course at Airwork Services Training at Scone in Scotland, also owned by the BUA Group. Through a quirk in the contract my Commercial Pilot’s Licence cost me £50 – don’t tell the young lads who are spending £100k plus today.

At Lydd I flew many times with Captain George Livingstone who had been the First Officer on the first car ferry flight from Lympne mentioned in that article.

The original Bristol 170 carrying two cars was the Mk31. By the time I joined in 1967 we only had the Bristol 170 Mk32 (with stretched nose) carrying 3 cars – or 6 horses, ? sheep or about 25 pigs. Pigs are nervous flyers and sweat a lot which made the climb up the ladder to the cockpit very slimy. Flying livestock we were paid an extra 19p an hour, not a lot on a 20 min. flight. I was paid £1,390 p.a. Fortunately I ended my flying career in 1990 as a Boeing 737 Captain on £40,000, so all’s well that ends well."

We have family cine film of my parents loading their Morris 1000 onto a plane a Lydd to fly off on their honeymoon to Benidorm in 1958.

They drove all the way to Benidorm and stayed in the (only!) hotel in the town.
They tried to go to a bar, but my mother was refused entry, as women were not permitted into the bars of Benidorm!, She also avoided a fine on the beach, as she was wearing a swimsuit, whereas the lady next to her had a bikini, which was deemed obscene !

Times have changed a bit, no more cars on aeroplanes, and now there are bars you can't get into on the Benidorm strip as an unaccompanied man!

 

[Don Campbell]

We usually book a return on the tunnel now as we know we only have 90 days but its easy to change the booking online so no problem if we need to return early.

There is a charge for changing. Even though our change was for a medical emergency, they still charged us.

 

[Speve]

There is a charge for changing. Even though our change was for a medical emergency, they still charged us.

Never been charged in all the years we have used tunnel unless it’s a higher price slot for crossing and understandably have to pay the difference

 

[Don Campbell]

Never been charged in all the years we have used tunnel unless it’s a higher price slot for crossing and understandably have to pay the difference

Alan, it's possible that was the case, but I can't remember it being explained that way as we were flexible and could have gone straight on in the evening instead of waiting until the morning.