Flight delays / Embarkation - Regal Princess Athens

[FiggyWig]

Revised and reposted from earlier post

 

A question mainly for British and European passengers.  With all of the current issues with air travel and delays / cancellations going on right now what are your concerns regarding getting to your embarkation port on time.  We are due to set sail from Athens on Regal in July and although we are supposed to be arriving in Athens the day before having flown in from London Gatwick we obviously have our worries about whether we will get to the ship on time (it at all) in the event of horrendous flight delays or cancellations.  We are even looking at our 1^st few ports of call and flights to that country in the worse case scenario – if indeed Princess do allow joining the ship enroute.

By the way we are not booked direct with Princess, but with a TA.

Any views / advice appreciated.

 

Fig

[Esprit]

We are due to board Regal on 9th July flying in from Heathrow at 7 am that day.

If the flight is delayed or cancelled I'm hoping/expecting Princess to get us on board as promised in their "Plane Sailing" holiday package protection scheme.

The next port after Civitavecchia is Naples so I'll happily board the ship there in the event of a delay.

 

I'm not going to worry about the "what if's". No point in getting stressed over something I have no control over.

[wowzz]

1 hour ago, FiggyWig said:

Revised and reposted from earlier post

 

A question mainly for British and European passengers.  With all of the current issues with air travel and delays / cancellations going on right now what are your concerns regarding getting to your embarkation port on time.  We are due to set sail from Athens on Regal in July and although we are supposed to be arriving in Athens the day before having flown in from London Gatwick we obviously have our worries about whether we will get to the ship on time (it at all) in the event of horrendous flight delays or cancellations.  We are even looking at our 1^st few ports of call and flights to that country in the worse case scenario – if indeed Princess do allow joining the ship enroute.

By the way we are not booked direct with Princess, but with a TA.

Any views / advice appreciated.

 

Fig

Which airline are you using ?

[FiggyWig]

The 'bus in the sky' Easyjet  

[Esprit]

9 minutes ago, FiggyWig said:

The 'bus in the sky' Easyjet  

Sorry. I assumed you had booked the Princess flight and cruise as a package through your TA.

Unfortunately "Plane Sailing" will not apply, but I'm sure with a day in hand you will be OK for embarkation in Athens.

[wowzz]

easyJet have been cancelling a lot of flights recently, at short notice. There are not that many options to Athens from Gatwick.

In your position I would be seriously looking at a Plan B, so consider what your options are from Heathrow.

We are flying back from Athens on Saturday, and BA have consolidated two 320 flights into a single 787 flight, as they have insufficient staff for two flights.

Good luck