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Passport validity for the EU (plus Switzerland, Iceland & Norway, but not Ireland)
A UK passport must meet two conditions:
On day of entry to the EU, issued less than 10 years ago. On intended day of exit from EU, at least 3 months left before expiry date.
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‘I think it is a pretty strong contender for worst airport in Europe’
In this week’s episode of The Travel Expert, @SimonCalder and @Greg_Dickinson advise listeners on the terminal name changes at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport that will take place from the 16 March 2027
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Is this the end of the passport?
In this week’s episode of The Travel Expert, @SimonCalder and @Greg_Dickinson discuss the new facial verification system being trialled at East Midlands and Birmingham airports
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Latest edition of The Travel Expert just out.
@Greg_Dickinson and I discuss:
Fresh round of rail strikes plus Christmas line closures.
Flydubai 1073: how could aviation security change after the near-disaster?
Plus Germany's weird offshore isle, Heligoland
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Chiltern Railways: RMT members to strike on successive Saturdays, 10 and 17 Oct.
Rail union says staffing plans for the yet-to-start East West Rail pose “a significant risk to safety”.
Chiltern says each train between Oxford and Milton Keys will have a second crew member on board
The new episode of The Travel Expert, with @Greg_Dickinson and me, is out.
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary says air fares in Europe are "far too cheap".
For winter sun, which is best: the Indian Ocean or the Caribbean?
And how robots park your car at Gatwick.
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Rail chaos.
Great Western lines from Bristol, Bath, Swansea, Cardiff, Swindon – closed due to gas leak.
Disruption will continue for the rest of the day.
GWR urges passengers not to travel. "Tickets for today may be used to travel tomorrow at no extra cost or claim a full refund"
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New The Travel Expert podcast with @Greg_Dickinson features the brilliant Sir Michael Palin on overtourism:
“I take full blame. I make travel programmes. You can’t say only certain people should travel. You want everybody to go if they can”
And much more.
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West Coast Main Line.
Network Rail emergency engineering work to remove a dangerous bridge will close the railway between London Euston and Watford until 4pm on Sunday 20 Sept.
Links between the capital, the West Midlands, northwest England and Scotland will be heavily disrupted.
You are on a one-month voyage as a passenger aboard a cargo ship. You can listen to music from just one year.
Which year, and why?
No contest: 1969.
Abbey Road/Beatles
Tommy/Who
Let it bleed/Stones
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Five Leaves Left/Nick Drake
Led Zeppelin II
And much more
Other great albums include:
My Cherie Amour/Stevie Wonder
Dusty [Springfield] In Memphis
Tons of Sobs/Free
Ummagumma/Pink Floyd
Love Chronicles/Al Stewart
And, from Fairport Convention, not one but *three* classics : What we did on our holidays, Liege & Lief and Unhalfbricking
Congratulations to everyone who completed the Great North Run yesterday – including while carrying a scale model of the Tyne Bridge.
I’m currently on a Great North Walk through Asturias.
The most compelling radio interview of the year: the amazing @GinaWag talking with searing honesty about growing up with a stammer in the 1990s, and how pop legend Scatman John saved her life.
Listen to Outlook on @bbcworldservice
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Latest edition of The Travel Expert podcast, with @Greg_Dickinson and me, now out.
We discuss the fallout from another meltdown of the air traffic control system, hitting 300,000-plus, and passengers' rights.
And how the tragedy of 9/11 changed air travel.
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11 September 2001.
By the end of that terrible day, nearly 3,000 innocent lives were lost.
Passengers, crew, emergency responders, office workers: all had set out that morning with only good intentions.
25 years on, they are mourned by their families, friends and the wider world.
Miami airport is closed after an Amazon Prime Air cargo plane overshot the runway.
Inbound flights from London diverted: British Airways and Virgin Atlantic to Orlando, American Airlines to Charlotte.
BA has cancelled this evening's flight from Miami; Virgin hopes to fly out late
Gatwick airport's runway has reopened after a 50-minute closure "due to a technical issue with a departing aircraft". The Norse Boeing 787 to New York aborted its take off halfway down the runway, where it remained for 37 minutes until it was towed away and the runway inspected.
21 flights diverted to airports as far away as Birmingham and Bournemouth. Retrieving those aircraft will cause further disruption for the rest of the day in the shape of delayed operations. Some flights may, I fear, be cancelled, which is the last thing we need on a busy Friday.