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William Standage
Senior Member
Username: Charlie13
Post Number: 1089
Registered: 07-2004
Posted From: 75.172.59.118
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 04:28 pm: | |
Stuart,
Travis AFB only rarely flys to Mildenhall. You will have to haunt this board and gather intel on other bases where you might find connecting flights that will get you to England. You might even have to do a portion of this trip via comm'l air. Think about it as a series of connections from Travis to the East coast, to Spain, or Germany, and then on to England; all on different flights.
Some tanker bases fly semi regular flights to Mildenhall, i.e. Fairchild, McConnell, MacDill, Grand Forks, and Mitchell Fld. Unfortunately, Travis doesn't connect with these bases often. |
william brown
Senior Member
Username: Brown9bill
Post Number: 639
Registered: 12-2006
Posted From: 108.0.100.243
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 04:17 pm: | |
Stuart: This trip is doable provided you plan on travelling early spring. You can fly from Travis to the east coast to Germany and on to Mildenhall. We travel from the west coast to the east coast and on to Mildenhall about twice a year. I would not attempt this trip unless I plan to finish the trip prior to May 15. Happy Travels. |
John D.
Moderator
Username: John_d
Post Number: 4464
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 95.208.80.143
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 03:50 pm: | |
Stu,
If by commercial airline backups in Europe are you referring to the delays caused by the Iceland volcano ash? If so, there is a generic thread in the Off Topic Forum for that topic.
For London lodging info search for "London" in the Space-A Lodging Forum and also checkout the info available under the England/London section at the Spacea.net Travel links. |
John R Garrison
Senior Member
Username: Majorg
Post Number: 2604
Registered: 02-2006
Posted From: 208.81.157.86
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 03:26 pm: | |
Stuart:
Welcome to the Board!
If you have not yet done so, please familiarize yourself with JohnD's SpaceA Pages (link top left), the general layout of this site and the Search Function (magnifying glass at top center) of this site. Nearly all questions can be answered from those three sources. Having read thru the FAQs is a great start and I would suggest reading thru the other sections on JohnD's site as well.
In relation to your proposed trip, traveling SpaceA to/from California to the UK (or anywhere in Europe)in the summer will be very challenging. We try to avoid the Summer (15 May to 15 Sep) as this is typically one of the busiest times (Christmas (15 Dec-10 Jan) being the other) with a lot of competition for spacea. Please ensure that you are prepared to spend more time in terminals than you can imagine. Also be prepared for additional food, lodging and expensive, last minute commercial tickets should you be time restrained upon your attempted return.
As stated often on this site, experienced SPATS avoid Christmas and Summer travel whenever possible.
In sum, can it be done??..Yes, Just be mentally prepared for things to not go as smoothly as you might be expecting...and be pleasantly surprised when they work out.
Happy travels, John |
Stuart Heller
New member
Username: Modlbildr
Post Number: 1
Registered: 04-2010
Posted From: 72.4.187.40
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 02:40 pm: | |
We are a Cat VI + wife dependent new to Space A, thinking about trying to get to London (Mildenhall?) from Travis next spring/early summer - are we nuts or are there viable common connections and if so which routing is recommended? Also, info on commercial airline backups in Europe and London lodging would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your advice. Stu |
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