Looking at flying fae wick to edinburgh in thesummer.
any one know/confirm?
3 hours 40 minutes should be ok, were everything to go smoothly. It takes about an hour and a half from here (Edinburgh) to Glasgow, in a car, and maybe 2 hours on a bus. So depending on times for buses and trains, it should be fine, but you'd need to check the bus times in advance.
I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
Arriving Glasgow 0700 and expecting to catch a flight ex Edinburgh at 1040 is a disaster waiting to happen.
Arriving from the USA you will have to collect bags, clear immigration & customs.
With luck you will be out of the airport at 0745/0800. IF you have a cab waiting say 0930 barring hold-ups in Edinburgh, find a check in desk ?, allow for the last check in time of around 1000 and that is cutting it too fine. Thats only in my experience of course.
As Magtomich says, you would be cutting it extremely fine. You would be reliant on no delay leaving the States and no delay en route to keep to a schedule as tight as this.
Have you considered hiring a car from Glasgow instead? If you spread the cost between you all it would come in at a pretty reasonable rate and you would at least be guaranteed to get home then.
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I wouldn't drive from the airport if you're in a hurry because the traffic into town is horrendous at 8am. You could easily take an hour to get through the centre of town on the M8 and then another hour to Edinburgh and that's if you're lucky.
You could get a taxi from the airport to Paisley and take a train to Central from there but you'd have to get the bus or walk from Central to Queen Street to catch the Edinburgh train, and then take a bus from Waverley to Edinburgh Airport but that's probably even longer.
I wouldn't risk it either way.
That's a much safer plan.
I didn't think of that.
I wouldn't want to drive from Glasgow to Caithness after an overnight flight but some are more immune to tiredness and jet lag than me. Also one way car hire usually has horrendous drop off charges so they might be better taking their own car and driving both ways. Parking charges at Glasgow Airport aren't too bad.
Still, I'd go for the later flight from Edinburgh.
Continental and Delta both fly into Edinburgh. I usually fly Continental from Newark to Edinburgh and then catch the flight up north. Are you getting a cheaper flight from Glasgow?
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