I'm flying to Leeds Bradford Airport in the UK in a couple of weeks time on a direct flight from Paris. It'w with a company called jet2.com. Has anyone tried them?
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Originally posted by Jenny Roberts: It's not the airline you need to worry about, Bradford is another story.............
Isn't that t'airport at BraTf'd, Jenny?
You have to wonder when airports have double names.There's usually a clue in there.At a guess, this one is in Bradford and nowhere near Leeds but is the 'nearest' airport to Leeds.Didn't Ryanair try that: they'd advertise flights to Oslo but the 'Oslo' airport turned out to be 100 miles away and in a different country and the 'airport' for 'Hamburg' was an ex-military airfield somewhere near Hanover ?
Bradford, Yorkshire, is all right, the more so if you understand Bengali (easier than understanding Yorkshire but still difficult)
Now getting to Leeds is much easier than getting to the Leeds. Next year I expect to be there, but my age, and much more particularly, my personal allocation of natural talent preclude any participation on my part... I expect to attend the first week, but the semi finals & finals I will probably watch on the box. Hearing all the participants is the main thing for me. The acoustics in Leeds Town Hall fall way below what one can hear on a good sound system ( I have a small cinema in my home which is ideal for such as this) and besides, Jenny will probably be in desperate need of music lessons, having been left to her own devices for five weeks throughout August...
...actually, I shall soon be finding out how much work she has done through August 2008...
Will you be at The Leeds next year at all, Fred? Or you, Colin? If so, we may actually meet (mine's a large Lagavulin, by the way)
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I'd never thought to go Ritz. I'd rather assumed it was something for an invited audience, or an audience drawn only from members of societies, colleges of music and the like.
Thy don't sell tickets until June for the competition in August. No point in applying too early, you may be misunderstood: years ago I wrote far too early to the Royal and Ancient about tickets for the Open Golf Championship and they replied sending me a form to enter it as a competitor.
Ah, the Leeds! I remember reading years ago how John Lill was judging there and agreed to officiate at a rather more low-key (!!) piano competition in a nearby public house at the same time, designed for pub entertainers. He said afterwards that he’d enjoyed it immensely; he’s that sort of bloke. I’d like to meet John Lill. He had an interesting childhood and I’ve been an admirer ever since I read in the newspaper that he’d won the Tchaikovsky event in Moscow several decades ago. It made front page news in the Guardian as I recall. Back though to the travel. I made it to Leeds-Bradford Airport and it is close to Leeds itself. The man who was staffing the car-hire desk told me that he’d driven out to the airport from the centre of Leeds early that morning and that it had taken him 14 minutes. The shuttle bus is scheduled to take 43. The airline was OK, but which is where this thread started, but did insist on trying to sell us "double leg-room seats” once we were on board for £20 each. It’s all these add-ons that the low-cost companies keep, well, adding on, that will be their undoing I fear. Oh, and good luck with the practising, Jenny!
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