We do understand the frustrations that some of our travellers have in that not all of our holidays are available direct from their local airport.

In the new brochure mailing today (featuring a selection of 2015 tours), you will find a table on pages 16 &17 which highlight the regional flights we have available on the tours announced so far. You will see that there are more holidays available from regional airports in 2015 and for 2014 we have an exclusive Manchester departures on a number of our North America holidays including Americas Golden West, Canada & New England in the Fall and Route 66. Whether or not we offer these as an exclusive departure in 2015 will depend on whether or not there is the demand for them this year.

I promise, the team really are trying to make more of our holidays available to travellers across the UK where flights from carriers are available.

Kindest regards,

Julia

It should be remembered that people from all over GB take JY holidays and have to travel to the London airports and have overnight stays, either because of early departures or late arrivals back. JY cannot cater for every local airport. I have accepted that to go on a holiday I really want to do I have to have a long journey to the airport and an overnight stay, but to me its worth it for all the great holidays I have had with JY.

Avocet

I have to agree with the general view expressed here. I live near Birmingham and the available holidays from my local airport are indeed few and far between. Neither do I have the luxury of connecting flights to Heathrow and Gatwick so I've used National Express on 3 occasions to get to Heathrow, a service offered by JY at a very reasonable price.

However, I'm going to China in October from Gatwick which will involve an overnight stay in a hotel the night before, so that will add at least £100 to the cost of the holiday. I've also flown from Manchester before, which is an easy 90min drive for me, but that's involved an overnight stay as well.

I'm hoping that JY will offer more long haul holidays from Birmingham in the future, especially after the long awaited runway extension has been completed in 2015. Of course, that depends on airlines offering the flights in the first place as obviously JY can't offer flights that don't exist.

I'm considering Australia in 2015 but the only flights offered in the JY brochure are with Qantas from Heathrow via Dubai. I know that I can do the same route from Birmingham with Emirates as they fly to Dubai twice a day from BHX. So my question would be, why are those flights not offered as a regional alternative to the LHR option?

I believe that Emirates also do the same route from Manchester so again, why is that not shown as an option for people living further north? Maybe JY have a perfectly reasonable explanation for this, in which case perhaps Julia or Will could shed some light on the issue.

Anyway, I'm sure that I could find other examples if I took the time to trawl through airline timetables, so bit more homework on the part of JY in this area (particularly for long haul destinations) would I'm sure be very much appreciated.

Kind regards

Mike

It is even worse if you live in Scotland - even Manchester is expensive to get to and you often would have to have an overnight at the airport, as for Gatwick, either before flying out, back or both.

I have just had a promotion leaflet from Just You for Manchester departures - perhaps the staff in the holiday department can - for their New Year resolution - send out a leaflet offering more Scottish based departures!!

:D

Hi Douglas

I know exactly how you feel. I always have to have a night either in Glasgow or Gatwick, and in one instance, because BA changed the flight time, I have had to have a night in Glasgow AND a night in Gatwick, or get up at 3 a.m. to drive to Glasgow. Not funny, and adds a lot to the cost of the holiday.

Such things are sent to try us!

Sylvia

We have visited this problem many times over the years regarding local airports, and the other thing I remember being said is it comes down to the amount of people traveling if the demand is there. They have to have a main group leaving from somewhere and that's normally LHR or LGW, it would be very hard to formulate a tour I would think If the 40 travellers are all arriving at different time and from different locations and then getting them back as well on time. A logistical nightmare I would think. So fingers crossed there is better news for you all in the new brochure.

Cindy

I would like to book city break to Rome but flight from Gatwick which adds more expense so depended on times of flights might have to book hotel overnight going and returning , there is flights from Manchester with Easy Jet or Monarch but Just You only want to use BA.