>I've picked up the conversation about travel arrangements. There are
>a number of things that you (and other readers) might want to keep in
>mind.
>
>1. The nearest international airport to Nottingham is East Midlands,
>about 15 miles away. The only scheduled US flights, though, are with
>Aer Lingus through Dublin to New York. There are charters to Florida
>and Toronto and you might be able to get on one of them. East
>Midlands has good air connections to Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris
>via British Midland who have some sort of tie-up with United.
>
>2. The airports at Birmingham, Stansted and Manchester all have a
>variety of US connections and good rail links to Nottingham. You
>should expect to pay about 80 dollars for a return rail trip between
>Nottingham and Heathrow via London. Any of the other airports will
>cost you about half that in transfers so you could accept a price
>difference of 40-50 dollars on the actual flight. Personally I would
>accept a bit more to avoid Heathrow which is very congested in summer
>and at the end of a very tedious subway line. Try to avoid flights
>into Gatwick which is the wrong side of London. The journey cost is
>about the same as Heathrow and a lot more inconvenient.
>
>3. If a group of people do end up on the same flight into East
>Midlands or Birmingham, we can organize a cab to meet it. The
>Brimingham cost will be about 15 dollars per head for four people and
>the East Midlands cost will be about 5-6 dollars. We need about one
>week's notice with flight number and expected arrival time.
>
>4. I am quite happy to arrange a T-shirt or to leave it to Jon. My
>feeling was that he might not want to carry 100 T-shirts in his
>luggage allowance but I liked the last design and still wear it to
>promote this year's meeting! We have a colour version of the logo on
>your booking leaflets and I can use this as the main motif on the T-
>shirt. Would you like to let me know what you think?
>
>5. If there are other queries which might be of general interest,
>please post them to this board which I am now reading regularly and I
>will reply.
>
>Robert
>Robert Dingwall
>School of Social Studies
>University of Nottingham
>Nottingham NG7 2RD
>United Kingdom
>
>Tel +44 (115) 951-5418
>Fax +44 (115) 951-5232
>
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