How much will a flight cost after Brexit?

*trisher said*: For every one instance of a family decently housed I can find you 10 of people who simply can't afford housing where they work.

So where do those ten, 90% of the working population for a given area, live? How far away from where they work do they live? I guess I'm asking what would be called a reasonable commute in your eyes?

90% is wrong, of course, but it's the right order of magnitude based on what was said, I think.

I wonder how much it will cost to fly to Paris, after Brexit, but I wonder not who is liberal or conservative.

The Americans of course are easily the worst as they are too stupid to realise how stupid they are and they are very very stupid indeed.
My goodness, that would not describe the American professor who was one of my colleagues many years ago.

If we need another Marshall Plan after Brexit, GNHQ had better delete Rigby's post before we apply for it.

As the far as housing goes a vast majority of the 10 would be in London of course, where most people under the age of 35 are struggling to meet accommodation costs. Then there are young people in rural communities who simply know they will never afford housing in the area they come from. As far as a commute goes it could be a distance or a cost that dictates that and the hours that are worked.

Going back to the OP. Did I just here right on the radio? With the start of the school hols 8,800 flights are leaving the UK today? Perhaps we need something to control and slow flights!

Yes, I heard that too. The busiest day for flights apparently.

That's because of the ridiculous fines imposed on parents who want to have a holiday with their children during school time. My DGC have done nothing much this last week. Eldest had her little prom which she would have been sad to miss but other than that they have mainly played, tidied, watched films etc. what hardship to take a child on holiday this week (or last) ?

It's not fair to impose controls on flights for people who through no fault of their own are forced to take their usually one holiday a year at the same/similar times.

Wonderful post Day6 and not what a lot of people want to hear ( the truth rarely is) when it gets in the way of a good story.

Don't get me started on that one Gilly!!

Great post Day6. With you all the way.

S'okay Nfk I wasn't trying to be deliberately controversial (promise) it's just I feel sorry for families who can't do right for doing wrong and really only want a few days holiday together.

Agreed Gillybob . DGs school broke up the 23rd December last Christmas holidays, just 2 days before. One family had wanted to fly out to spend Christmas with family in Spain but they were told that they would be fined £60 per child if they missed any school days. The prohibitive cost of flying anywhere on Christmas Eve meant that they saw no extended family last year.

Well blame the government for that headteachers have very little leeway now. Especially after the Supreme Court ruling.

I believe supply and demand takes care of the flight situation, no?

Wasn't "blaming" anyone trisher, just posting an experience, like you do.......

They do have some leeway trisher my DGC' s cousin wasn't fined . My neighbour wasn't fined ( she said it was because the children's father is a police officer and they need the time off together more) . Her words when I asked how she "got away with it" ?

It's interesting to see how it varies across the world. I was shocked about the recommendation to get a letter from the school in Germany!
mumsdotravel.com/2015/01/term-time-family-holidays-international-view/

It is the LEA who decides if there should be a fine, not the HT. Things were tightened up in 2013
Schools used to have the discretion to allow up to 10 days' term-time holiday each year in 'special circumstances'. The rules were tightened in Sept 2013 though – now head teachers at state schools in England can only give permission for term-time absences in "exceptional circumstances".

These could include visiting seriously ill family, attending a close family member's funeral or if a family member's in the Armed Forces and returning from operations. The Department for Education says you're "unlikely" to get permission simply for a family holiday.

There are also a number of allowances made under the law stating when your child can be absent. These are if they are sick, they are off for a day for a religious observance, they have no fixed address or if the child doesn't live within walking distance of the school (for under-eights this is two miles, for over-eights it's three miles) and the local authority didn't provide transport, boarding accommodation or the option for them to go to a closer school.

Work has begun on the £1billion super terminal at Manchester Airport. Surely if flights were going to be reduced from the UK to Europe, major international airports wouldn't be investing such large amounts of money in expansion.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/work-starting-new-1bn-super-13362256

Primrose that article is interesting. My understanding is the issue here in the UK parents want to take their children out of school so they pay less for a holiday. Reading the article, it doesn't appear that's the driver in other countries. It might be the way the question was asked though.

Chewbacca Manchester flies a lot of long haul routes and wants to expand that part of the business, so Europe might not be a major factor in the expansion. It needs more capacity to make use of the largest planes. It looks amazing!

These rules only apply if the head does not "authorise" the absence. In both examples I gave the head (the same one) authorized the absences for family holidays.

I asked what happened to the fine money and was told it does not go to the school but they (the local authority) would not/ could not tell me where it went.

Might be worth making a Freedom of information application gillybob , they would have to divulge where the money went then.

trisher I am very interested in the last paragraph of you last post. Could you tell me where this information is from please? Is there somewhere I could copy it from ? Thank you .