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Excel Airways is just less than a month old on GOA sector but seems to have some problems already most recent one being Manchester incident which in turn caused 24 hours delay both ways. However, tourist/Pax in GOA were lucky to have one free additional holiday. Flt only pax may have come to the airport and gone back home as they are not likely to be notified about the cancellation/delays etc in absence of any contact details. Also, see a letter from a PAX to Excel Airways at the bottom.. Other Tips: Just before u leave your Goa home, it is advisable to phone either the Holiday company or Dabolim Airport about the flt status. If you are required to reconfirm your return journey, please make sure you leave your contact No. too. Those travelling on Monarch etc which departs around midnight at London, their return flt also likely to arrive back in london after midnight. No coaches/buses to LHR etc (e.g.national express) are available after 1130pm at the airport. However, there is a prepaid cab service at LGW just before u leave the terminal. If you normally pay to your local minicab say �45 the prepaid service will charge about �70 fixed day & night. But if you tell your local minicab people in adv. that u r arriving at odd hours on so and so date, they may be able to come to pick you up but not all are willing to come at night and the excuse that they might give is 'shortage of staff'. If Travelling by First Choice/Air2000, they always depart from North Terminal LGW where as all others depart from the South Terminal. This info is not always printed on the ticket and rememeber, u may have to collect your ticket from the airport itself on the day of travelling. Remember, Firt Choice/air2000 very strict with the baggage allowance. They will charge you for the excess even if your baggage weight is just 25. It happened to me twice. Once I was travelling in Premium Class where bag.allow. is 30kgs but my wt was just 34kg & I had to pay for 4 kgs @ �8/kg, however, very few get aways with even 30 kgs in Ecy. Your baggage weight (each suitcase) must be strictly Max.32kgs only. Even if your suitcase weigh 34kgs, you will be asked to remove the excess 2. This is a requirement at all UK airports. Handbag: After the check-in and passport control etc, dont be under the impression that you can load as much duty Free into your hand bag. Just before boarding the aircraft, all handbags are subject to check/weigh once again and you may be ask to leave your handbag into to hold with or without excess baggage payment. Finally, when you come back, avoid bringing heavy goans items like Miskut/Pickle/cashew nuts or Papad you get better quality here and cheaper too. Now, Sausages, dont bring in thousands. Always bear in mind that if your suitcase is opened upon arrival at customs, all your sausages will be taken away. I lost all my 2000 sausages about 5 years ago. Sausages or any other meat products from non-European countries are not allowed into UK That's all for 2day. Should you encounter any problems etc please dont forget to share with us. Wishing you all Happy and Safe journey. Bom Voyage. ============= Quote:Modified: (Travelling with Excel Airways) 25th Oct.2004. Just come back from Goa after a week's holiday (Flt. only �410). I would like to comment as follows: 1. Outbound (15/10/04) - XLA350 ex LGW No blankets were provided to Ecy. passengers. I could see several PAX requesting for blankets but were denied saying 'blankets only meant for children' It would be nice if blankets were provided to all pax bearing in mind 9/10 hours of long haul Flt to GOA. Not all pax are used to the controlled onboard temperature. 2. Inbound (23/10/04) - XLA351 ex GOA. As adivised, 3 days before the dep. date, it was reconfirmed over the phone and i was told to be at the airport atleast 3 hrs before the Dep. time. When arrived at the airport at 7.15, (ETD 1015) I was told that the flt was delayed by at least 7 hrs. Had to go back to Panaji (1 hr drive). If my contact no. was taken at the time of re-confirmation, they could at least informed me about the delay etc... 3. FOOD Food was good. 4. Baggage Allowance: 35kgs This was excellent and deserve max. credit. 5. Crew. Crew was very polite and helpfull. Hope my time/comments would bring about some changes to the satisfaction/convenience of the air Passengers travelling with XLA I am looking forward to travel to GOA again with Excel Airways... Thanks, ============== ===== for Goa & Goa Flights info.. http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/LetsGotoGoa New Official (Church) Site on the SFX Exposition.. http://www.archgoadaman.org/Dioceses/SFX/index.html GOAN NRI related.. http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
