Last summer, my cousin (who lives in Donegal) flew from an airport in Mayo into Boston on a new airline - Globe Span. At the time, Globe Span had opened ports in Boston & New York City. It's a discount airline, much like SouthWest Airlines. They don't seem to fly in/out of Boston/NYC any more, but they do travel to Orlando, Toronto & Vancouver. Might save you some money for more fun things in Ireland. Go to www.globespan.com - jane > From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:53:54 -0400> Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] lfuture trip to Ireland with children> > Fellow listers,> > There are many questions that I need some answers to while trying to plan a> trip to Ireland. I am hoping that some kind souls on this site will take a> few moments to help me.> > If I was to fly to Ireland and wanted to send time in County Donegal - what> airport would I plan to land at?> > Since we will be travelling with small children - is there a car seat> requirement in Ireland? what kind of transportation is available from the> airport ???> > We are not sure how long we plan to visit........depends on what all we want> to see and how long the money will last........any lower priced places to> stay ??? .................we would like to spend some time in the Fanad> area.> > Also - what is the weather like in Nov/ Dec/ Jan/Feb there???> > Part of why I am asking these questions is to try to somewhat plan the trip> and figure out how much it will cost.........need to have enough to cover it> all.> > > Thanks,> > Michelle> > > When replying to a digest post, quote only the specific text to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. > > TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY SUBJECT, GO TO THE THREADED ARCHIVES AT> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/DONEGALEIRE/ > > > TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY DATES AND SUBJECT GO TO THE SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES AT http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=DONEGALEIRE > > SOME HELPFUL WEBSITES:> Donegal Genealogy Resource (Lindel's Site) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/> Donegaleire Genealogy Links & Data> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegaleire/> Bob's Donegal Ireland Genealogy> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hiflyte/> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Jane, Assuming Michelle is in the USA, I'm afraid Flyglobespan are no longer serving the US from Ireland - with one exception - Orlando. They are a Scottish-based airline and used to fly through Knock Airport in Mayo. They do still fly to Canada - Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary from Dublin or Belfast. Many budget airlines are fantastic, but I'm afraid however that from a personal point of view Globesapn would be the last airline I'd fly transatlantic with. In their first months of operating to the East Coast passengers experienced some horrendous delays - in one notorious case passengers were left stranded in JFK for more than 2 days.....have a look at comments in these Forums:- http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/flygspan.htm http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/3486247/ In the interests of surviving these trouble times, Aer Lingus have in recent times moved somewhat towards the Budget airline model, but have always maintained in my opinion a good to excellent service, with fairly competitive pricing. This is just a personal opinion from someone who uses them fairly regularly on the Dublin - Boston route - I have no vested interest......but I would be very, very wary of Globespan. The main US Airlines operate regular services to/from Dublin - Continental, United, Delta, US Airways and American. Regards, and have a wonderful holiday when you finally make the trip Michelle, John > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 11:44:34 -0400 > Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] lfuture trip to Ireland with children > > > Last summer, my cousin (who lives in Donegal) flew from an airport in Mayo into Boston on a new airline - Globe Span. At the time, Globe Span had opened ports in Boston & New York City. It's a discount airline, much like SouthWest Airlines. They don't seem to fly in/out of Boston/NYC any more, but they do travel to Orlando, Toronto & Vancouver. Might save you some money for more fun things in Ireland. Go to www.globespan.com > > - jane > > From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:53:54 -0400> Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] lfuture trip to Ireland with children> > Fellow listers,> > There are many questions that I need some answers to while trying to plan a> trip to Ireland. I am hoping that some kind souls on this site will take a> few moments to help me.> > If I was to fly to Ireland and wanted to send time in County Donegal - what> airport would I plan to land at?> > Since we will be travelling with small children - is there a car seat> requirement in Ireland? what kind of transportation is available from the> airport ???> > We are not sure how long we plan to visit........depends on what all we want> to see and how long the money will last........any lower priced places to> stay ??? .................we would like to spend some time in the Fanad> area.> > Also - what is the weather like in Nov/ Dec/ Jan/Feb there???> > Part of why I am asking these questions is to try ! > to somewhat plan the trip> and figure out how much it will cost.........need to have enough to cover it> all.> > > Thanks,> > Michelle> > > When replying to a digest post, quote only the specific text to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. 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