Electronic mail
June 20
I went again to the UK going into Gatwick as Easyjet doesn’t go into Southend for the time being. I’ve not been to see household or pals for 3 years now so it was going to be catching up and spending high quality time with them. We’re fortunate we have now Facetime and Zoom however it’s not the identical as a cuddle and a cuppa.
I had a really early flight and should say, I used to be stunned so few individuals had been round Alicante, however the officers saved shifting us ahead by way of passport management and so on to maintain the circulation shifting and it labored.
For the primary time I needed to journey by prepare and tubes as a result of my sister and brother-in-law weren’t properly sufficient to select me up. So off I went to the Gatwick Categorical, they had been doing up the prepare station.
Properly by the point I really acquired to the platform, I noticed that fortunately I had the precise ticket for the Categorical, in any other case if I had bought the improper one, it will probably’t be used and I’d have been fined.
I acquired to Victoria, and I wanted one other ticket to get throughout London to Liverpool Avenue. There was no-one to ask, no officers, simply computer systems, you’ll be able to’t use money it needed to be debit/bank card.
Lastly I labored out what to do. I acquired to Liverpool Avenue, went to the ticket workplace. There have been two officers there, I requested for a ticket she mentioned “No use the machine, bank cards solely.”
I really checked out her and I needed to say “Would you like a job?”
I had a lot of locations I went to all by public transport to see household and pals, and each time I felt it was missing in service.
A few years in the past I travelled into London every single day to work. It appears the service is now worse, and so costly.
My flight was on account of depart Friday however on Wednesday I obtained notification the flight was cancelled, so I wasted a night searching for a flight.
I ended up paying excessive for a one-way flight leaving a day earlier, however there have been no different flights, all full. I arrived at Gatwick, flight delayed. I lastly acquired house 02.15 Friday morning.
I’ve simply arrived again in Spain, and I’m overjoyed to be house. We moan in regards to the nation we selected to stay in however we do have high quality of life.
H. Ward
Electronic mail
June 20
Expensive sir,
I just lately paid a flying go to to the UK (actually), there and again throughout the identical day.
I’ve solely admiration for Alicante airport, which was good, fashionable, and so clear. All staff gave the impression to be doing their jobs very effectively, I sailed previous safety and the e-gates with no downside, the flight taking off on time.
All of it went to pot on arriving at Gatwick, the airplane needed to watch for 25 minutes for somebody to escort the airplane 30 metres to a ‘finger’. South terminal was drabby and in want of a makeover, the bathrooms blocks had been outdated and regarded in want of renovation. On departing later that afternoon from North terminal, once more I discovered a terminal in want of renovation. Additionally you needed to pay something and the whole lot with a bank card.
There gave the impression to be a variety of airport employees hanging round doing nothing.
Despite boarding on time we had been caught on the runway in a queue for 50 minutes because the runway was closed to take-offs on account of a visible ‘inspection’.
In all I used to be so glad to be again house in Spain
Alexandra Blair
