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Ye, I've been travelling on it since the first week it opened. But if you were redirected and had to fend for yourself you would need to book ahead on a tunnel
by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Ye, I've been travelling on it since the first week it opened. But if you were redirected and had to fend for yourself you would need to book ahead on a tunnel or boat, hire a car to drive from France to Coquelles - find somewhere to drop the car, hire another car in the UK. All assuming you land in Paris in the morning early enough to do all this.
- Symbiote 2y agoThen your comment about rowing across the sea is idiotic. The airlines that redirected flights to Paris arranged buses to London.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoHaving thought about it you're correct. Even if you over inflate your tyres it won't provide enough buoyancy even for the smallest Euro-car. An alternative reading to it 'being idiotic' is that it was clearly an exaggeration to prompt some critical thinking about the original claim.
- oefnak 2y agoThere's a train between the UK and France. It carries cars.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoThat I use regularly to actually drive from no-too-far from LHR to Paris and back. It's a thing I actually do. And I can tell you, it might be theoretically in Google Maps land to do the journey in 6 hours, but IRL in this scenario it won't happen. Actual empirical evidence.
- wqaatwt 2y agoWhat critical thinking? The train from London to Paris is barely above 2 hours. Why on earth would you drive if you’re in hurry?
- margalabargala 2y agoYes, all of which could be done in hours less time than it would take to get from Atlanta to any comparable airport. Consider the amount of train/ferry transit between London and Paris. That doesn't exist in the US. Rental car companies don't keep that much extra stock on hand, and really do not love renting cars for inter-state one-way journeys. I categorically reject that getting from Atlanta to London with ATL nonoperational would be either faster or easier than getting from London to Atlanta with LHR nonoperational.