Just to remind us that the season is changing, we woke this morning to a cool, damp grey day - 17C outside and some heavy rain showers. Hoping the rain passes during the day but it's forecast cool for a couple of days.
Also woke to a Foreign Office message about repatriation flights which they are organising with Virgin Atlantic. Four flights scheduled from Cape Town over the next week but by the time we completed the registration we were told that all flights are full and we are on the waiting list. At the moment, there is no guarantee that there will be any further flights but we'll keep fingers crossed.
Seems odd that after the Foreign Office encouraged everyone to register their interest in repatriation flights more than 10 days ago, they don't appear to have arranged enough flights to accommodate them all. In addition, since there were Economy return flights with BA for £330-550 in January and February it seems a little rich that the one way economy fare on a UK government 'sponsored' repatriation flight with Virgin Atlantic is priced at nearly £900. I guess Dominic Raab's '£75 million repatriation budget is being used to pay for the consultants who are organising the operation.
After taking Sunday off, we were back to our workout routine again this morning - I'm discovering a variety of exercises which I like less and less. However it is definitely helping us to keep active.
It was such a grey wet day that we even managed to get started on a 1000 piece jigsaw which has been waiting in the cupboard for just such an occasion. Hopefully the rain will have passed and the sunshine returned before we get it finished.
Also woke to a Foreign Office message about repatriation flights which they are organising with Virgin Atlantic. Four flights scheduled from Cape Town over the next week but by the time we completed the registration we were told that all flights are full and we are on the waiting list. At the moment, there is no guarantee that there will be any further flights but we'll keep fingers crossed.
Seems odd that after the Foreign Office encouraged everyone to register their interest in repatriation flights more than 10 days ago, they don't appear to have arranged enough flights to accommodate them all. In addition, since there were Economy return flights with BA for £330-550 in January and February it seems a little rich that the one way economy fare on a UK government 'sponsored' repatriation flight with Virgin Atlantic is priced at nearly £900. I guess Dominic Raab's '£75 million repatriation budget is being used to pay for the consultants who are organising the operation.
After taking Sunday off, we were back to our workout routine again this morning - I'm discovering a variety of exercises which I like less and less. However it is definitely helping us to keep active.
It was such a grey wet day that we even managed to get started on a 1000 piece jigsaw which has been waiting in the cupboard for just such an occasion. Hopefully the rain will have passed and the sunshine returned before we get it finished.
Hoping some additional flights will be added. Thats crazy 900 pounds for a flight. Something is not right with that. Here in Canada our govt gave each person a credit of $5000.00 to be used to pay for flights home .
ReplyDeleteYes UK Govt could do with taking a leaf out of the Canadian Govt book - useless bunch (UK Govt that is!)
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