London/Brussels/Athens

We are boarding a cruise at Piraeous in November to cruise back to Australia. We will be in England before that and want to go to Bruges/Brussels then to Athens. I have found I can do Gatwick/Brussels/Athens with Brussels Airlines. Anyone any more ideas? Olympian Air seem dearer.

Thanks

Boondy

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Depending on where you are starting from in England, you could come to Brugge by train: taking the Eurostar from St. Pancras to Brussels then local train 1 hour to Brugge, which you can get included in the same (ABS) ticket, see www.eurostar.com; you will in any case have to take a train from Brugge via Brussels to Brussels Airport (BRU).

From BRU apart from Brussels Airlines which now incorporates Virgin Express, the only cheap flights I know of to Athens are charters with package-holiday companies who do flight-only deals, like Jetairfly. They fly to Athens for € 59.99 one-way, including all airport taxes, but being a charter it is early in the morning (05:55 arr 11:25 with a stop at Patras-Araxas) and the timetable currently only goes up to Fri 12 October, so I don%26#39;t know whether it will be still available in November; funnily enough, for the Friday before that the cost is €182,99. Note also that for a 6 a.m. charter flight you would have to be at the airport by about 4 a.m., which could require staying overnight at the rather expensive Airport Sheraton.

Otherwise, try www.skyeurope.com via Vienna or Budapest or www.wizzair.com (from CRL, not BRU) via Katowice and numerous airlines via various cities in Germany: www.easyjet.com, www.flydba.com, www.germanwings.com, www.aegeanairlines.gr.

Or, of course, you may find it cheaper to return from Brugge to UK and fly to Athens from there.

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Brussels Airlines offers even lower fares to Athens. We were able to book flights for this August, at 55euros with taxes and cancellation insurance one way(50euros without the canc.insurance).

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Thanks a lot for your advice. I think Brussels Airlines will be the best bet

Boondy

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