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Post by oscardelta on Feb 25, 2019 21:00:58 GMT
Wizzair are opening up new routes all the time so it equally possible that they may open new routes to Baku.
Polish friend flies with them and met him up last week in Canary Islands and he said there are lots of new routes planned. Hell of a lot of new aircraft arriving as well.
I know they have opened a Kutaisi - Basel route, booked that in Oct for £23 on Monday 16th Oct after our game in Tblisi. Ok we now playing in Geneva but train ride will still be cheaper than a stopover in Turkey etc.
You can book tickets on Wizzair with only 1 NAMED person and the rest to be filled in later, think its £10 a head additional and can fill in names up to 24hrs before.
Definitely worth considering for "Dai the No Show because he hasn't asked his missus".
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Post by manulike on Feb 25, 2019 23:05:58 GMT
Wizzair are opening up new routes all the time so it equally possible that they may open new routes to Baku. Polish friend flies with them and met him up last week in Canary Islands and he said there are lots of new routes planned. Hell of a lot of new aircraft arriving as well. I know they have opened a Kutaisi - Basel route, booked that in Oct for £23 on Monday 16th Oct after our game in Tblisi. Ok we now playing in Geneva but train ride will still be cheaper than a stopover in Turkey etc. You can book tickets on Wizzair with only 1 NAMED person and the rest to be filled in later, think its £10 a head additional and can fill in names up to 24hrs before. Definitely worth considering for "Dai the No Show because he hasn't asked his missus". I noticed that they also have a £23 fare from Luton to Tromso - an absolute stunner of a town. If only I lived in London ;-) |
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Post by oscardelta on Feb 26, 2019 15:28:16 GMT
Wizzair are opening up new routes all the time so it equally possible that they may open new routes to Baku. Polish friend flies with them and met him up last week in Canary Islands and he said there are lots of new routes planned. Hell of a lot of new aircraft arriving as well. I know they have opened a Kutaisi - Basel route, booked that in Oct for £23 on Monday 16th Oct after our game in Tblisi. Ok we now playing in Geneva but train ride will still be cheaper than a stopover in Turkey etc. You can book tickets on Wizzair with only 1 NAMED person and the rest to be filled in later, think its £10 a head additional and can fill in names up to 24hrs before. Definitely worth considering for "Dai the No Show because he hasn't asked his missus". I noticed that they also have a £23 fare from Luton to Tromso - an absolute stunner of a town. If only I lived in London ;-) Did UK to Tenerife 2 weeks ago for £23 one way....................... everything is possible |
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Post by eppingblue on Feb 28, 2019 14:07:52 GMT
I have just booked myself Heathrow to Istanbul for £120 return with BA and then in a couple of weeks Buta Airways will have Istanbul to Baku for aroun £80 all being well! I am staying in Istanbul for 2 nights to have a nosey and just make sure of no problems with connections. Hotels are about £25-£30 a night in both cities so peanuts! Looking forward to Baku! Any ideas when Buta Airways will have their November timetable out ? Buta airways is open now. Just booked 3 for Istanbul - baku - Istanbul for $ 47 dollars each way per head. Its as low as $ 30 each way but that doesn't even include hand luggage.. Just waiting for the Pegasus fares from Stansted to Istanbul to open. That's normally about £ 50 each way. Overall return for £ 170 seems pretty good to me. Leaving Stansted about midnight on the wed. Get to Baku Thursday afternoon at 14.35. Return Monday at 7.45 am and back into Stansted at just after 2 in the afternoon. |
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Post by rees73 on Feb 28, 2019 21:25:26 GMT
Any ideas when Buta Airways will have their November timetable out ? Buta airways is open now. Just booked 3 for Istanbul - baku - Istanbul for $ 47 dollars each way per head. Its as low as $ 30 each way but that doesn't even include hand luggage.. Just waiting for the Pegasus fares from Stansted to Istanbul to open. That's normally about £ 50 each way. Overall return for £ 170 seems pretty good to me. Leaving Stansted about midnight on the wed. Get to Baku Thursday afternoon at 14.35. Return Monday at 7.45 am and back into Stansted at just after 2 in the afternoon. Flights booked with Buta. Will have two nights in Istanbul, one on the way out and one on the way back which will be on my birthday. Will fly British Airways I think and head to Wales for a couple of days for the Hungary game. Now to tell the other half that I'll be away for a week in June and another week in November 😂 |
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Post by gwernybwch on Mar 1, 2019 19:00:33 GMT
![]()  Wonky Sheep canvassing opinion for a charter flight to Baku. Doesn't seem bad money for a return flight from Cardiff. |
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Post by gifford on Mar 1, 2019 23:32:58 GMT
where is the best area to book a hotel in Baku (city centre/ old town)?
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Post by eppingblue on Mar 2, 2019 9:30:58 GMT
![]() Wonky Sheep canvassing opinion for a charter flight to Baku. Doesn't seem bad money for a return flight from Cardiff. Its definitely a good deal given the length of time its staying in Baku. Problem with most charters is their in and out, a night if your lucky. This is staying there 3 nights which is probably around the average length of stay for most fans. Its about the same cost as the main carriers without the getting to London aggro and its probably saves around 5 hours of flying and layover time. Clearly the budget airlines are cheaper, I'm half booked at the moment and expect to do it for £ 170 return out of Stansted, but its on my doorstep. Even with that, its coming back Monday or a crack of dawn start on the morning after the match. Factor in one less day off work and this ought to be a clear winner. Hope they're successful as the more travel options available the better for all in the long run. Not to mention ( hopefully ) a possible practice run for the Euro's next year although I expect chartering planes during those weeks will come with a significant premium. |
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Post by aberbeeg on Mar 2, 2019 10:56:31 GMT
![]() Wonky Sheep canvassing opinion for a charter flight to Baku. Doesn't seem bad money for a return flight from Cardiff. Its definitely a good deal given the length of time its staying in Baku. Problem with most charters is their in and out, a night if your lucky. This is staying there 3 nights which is probably around the average length of stay for most fans. Its about the same cost as the main carriers without the getting to London aggro and its probably saves around 5 hours of flying and layover time. Clearly the budget airlines are cheaper, I'm half booked at the moment and expect to do it for £ 170 return out of Stansted, but its on my doorstep. Even with that, its coming back Monday or a crack of dawn start on the morning after the match. Factor in one less day off work and this ought to be a clear winner. Hope they're successful as the more travel options available the better for all in the long run. Not to mention ( hopefully ) a possible practice run for the Euro's next year although I expect chartering planes during those weeks will come with a significant premium. Almost £500 for flights??? no hotel in that price mind. They offer fans an option but lets not pretend their prices are "reasonable". |
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Post by gwernybwch on Mar 2, 2019 23:02:28 GMT
Its definitely a good deal given the length of time its staying in Baku. Problem with most charters is their in and out, a night if your lucky. This is staying there 3 nights which is probably around the average length of stay for most fans. Its about the same cost as the main carriers without the getting to London aggro and its probably saves around 5 hours of flying and layover time. Clearly the budget airlines are cheaper, I'm half booked at the moment and expect to do it for £ 170 return out of Stansted, but its on my doorstep. Even with that, its coming back Monday or a crack of dawn start on the morning after the match. Factor in one less day off work and this ought to be a clear winner. Hope they're successful as the more travel options available the better for all in the long run. Not to mention ( hopefully ) a possible practice run for the Euro's next year although I expect chartering planes during those weeks will come with a significant premium. Almost £500 for flights??? no hotel in that price mind. They offer fans an option but lets not pretend their prices are "reasonable". Well the cheapest Cardiff to Baku flights for those dates on Skyscanner at the moment are £475. Just a mere 29 hour, 3 stop journey. Other blinding deals are red-eye flights from London coming in at £592. If you can provide better options than what Wonky are proposing; well let's be having them. |
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Post by latchyrhos on Mar 2, 2019 23:33:25 GMT
Just booked flights from Gatwick via Kiev. £653 for both of us, 1 hold bag (between us), plus seat reservations, 13th to 18th with UIA.
Get there late and leave there early hours but sociable times from and to Gatwick. Then straight to Cardiff for Hungary. Compared to Wonky trip its a bargain.
Did look at Wizzair, but connections in Budapest didn't work for us.
Can't wait for this one, couldn't do the other trips to Baku:o(
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Post by aberbeeg on Mar 3, 2019 9:25:11 GMT
Almost £500 for flights??? no hotel in that price mind. They offer fans an option but lets not pretend their prices are "reasonable". Well the cheapest Cardiff to Baku flights for those dates on Skyscanner at the moment are £475. Just a mere 29 hour, 3 stop journey. Other blinding deals are red-eye flights from London coming in at £592. If you can provide better options than what Wonky are proposing; well let's be having them. Well the London airport flights via Istanbul were averaging about £200 when flights came out. i understand you want to push your business but please don’t make out your prices are reasonable. I paid £185 from Istanbul to Baku return with Turkish Airlines. But if you can get a flight full of “punters” to shell out almost £500 each good luck to you but it’s a big no from me. |
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Post by eppingblue on Mar 3, 2019 11:23:51 GMT
Well the cheapest Cardiff to Baku flights for those dates on Skyscanner at the moment are £475. Just a mere 29 hour, 3 stop journey. Other blinding deals are red-eye flights from London coming in at £592. If you can provide better options than what Wonky are proposing; well let's be having them. Well the London airport flights via Istanbul were averaging about £200 when flights came out. i understand you want to push your business but please don’t make out your prices are reasonable. I paid £185 from Istanbul to Baku return with Turkish Airlines. But if you can get a flight full of “punters” to shell out almost £500 each good luck to you but it’s a big no from me. How do know its his business ? I travelled to Tbilisi with Turkish and would have preferred to do this trip with them but I've checked their prices pretty much every day since the fixtures came out and they've never been lower than the £ 400 return that they are now. Add to that the to and from London possibly different airports and at £ 445 this isn't such a bad deal. Comparing it with the cost from Istanbul is a bit ridiculous, its a third of the distance. Providing the outward take off is sufficiently early to give you a Thursday night out in Baku then it pretty much beats every thing else leaving from Wales on the Thursday morning. If the return departure is mid morning onwards then you get a night out after the game and back in plenty of time to be at work on Monday morning. If the departure is Thursday evening and the return 1 o-clock Sunday morning then its much less appealing. To be honest I'm surprised they can do it for that price, given the length of time the plane will be sitting on the tarmac in Baku. You could gain a night out in Baku. significantly reduced transfer costs and greater likelihood of being able to work on the Monday. Of course you can di it cheaper. My Istanbul to Baku leg is only $ 47 each way. In fact with no luggage it could have been $ 30 each way. I'm waiting on the London Istanbul bit I'm expecting to do all the flight for around £ 170 return. |
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Post by manulike on Mar 3, 2019 13:23:38 GMT
Just booked flights from Gatwick via Kiev. £653 for both of us, 1 hold bag (between us), plus seat reservations, 13th to 18th with UIA. Get there late and leave there early hours but sociable times from and to Gatwick. Then straight to Cardiff for Hungary. Compared to Wonky trip its a bargain. Did look at Wizzair, but connections in Budapest didn't work for us. Can't wait for this one, couldn't do the other trips to Baku:o( For those of you booking on UIA, note that if you split the booking Gatwick-Kyiv and Kyiv-Baku, there is a substantial saving to be had! Also, if you need a fairly cheap place to stay overnight, I am happy to give you a name of a really decent place about 3km away from the airport with the bestest blinni pancakes in the world (as well as a 24/7 superb restaurant/bar. |
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Post by aberbeeg on Mar 3, 2019 15:14:52 GMT
Well the London airport flights via Istanbul were averaging about £200 when flights came out. i understand you want to push your business but please don’t make out your prices are reasonable. I paid £185 from Istanbul to Baku return with Turkish Airlines. But if you can get a flight full of “punters” to shell out almost £500 each good luck to you but it’s a big no from me. How do know its his business ? I travelled to Tbilisi with Turkish and would have preferred to do this trip with them but I've checked their prices pretty much every day since the fixtures came out and they've never been lower than the £ 400 return that they are now. Add to that the to and from London possibly different airports and at £ 445 this isn't such a bad deal. Comparing it with the cost from Istanbul is a bit ridiculous, its a third of the distance. Providing the outward take off is sufficiently early to give you a Thursday night out in Baku then it pretty much beats every thing else leaving from Wales on the Thursday morning. If the return departure is mid morning onwards then you get a night out after the game and back in plenty of time to be at work on Monday morning. If the departure is Thursday evening and the return 1 o-clock Sunday morning then its much less appealing. To be honest I'm surprised they can do it for that price, given the length of time the plane will be sitting on the tarmac in Baku. You could gain a night out in Baku. significantly reduced transfer costs and greater likelihood of being able to work on the Monday. Of course you can di it cheaper. My Istanbul to Baku leg is only $ 47 each way. In fact with no luggage it could have been $ 30 each way. I'm waiting on the London Istanbul bit I'm expecting to do all the flight for around £ 170 return. From the way your both pushing the flight I can only assume your both part of Wonky Sheep. As a seasoned traveller who usually travels with my Mrs I personally would never pay almost a GRAND for what your offering ( but each to their own) i recently paid £678 for return flights from Birmingham to Melbourne with Emirates via Hong Kong and Bali. wonky sheep is a business that has recently got on the Welsh and Northern Ireland bandwagon it’s a business and it needs to make a profit. Nothing wrong with that. As I say each to their own but it’s a no from me |
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Post by gwernybwch on Mar 3, 2019 17:12:09 GMT
Well the cheapest Cardiff to Baku flights for those dates on Skyscanner at the moment are £475. Just a mere 29 hour, 3 stop journey. Other blinding deals are red-eye flights from London coming in at £592. If you can provide better options than what Wonky are proposing; well let's be having them. Well the London airport flights via Istanbul were averaging about £200 when flights came out. i understand you want to push your business but please don’t make out your prices are reasonable. I paid £185 from Istanbul to Baku return with Turkish Airlines. But if you can get a flight full of “punters” to shell out almost £500 each good luck to you but it’s a big no from me. For the absence of doubt, this is not my business, I have no connection with the business nor have never been a previous customer. My only previous interaction with the company is a quick chat with a customer in Nanning who seemed quite happy with their services. Good on you for getting flights for £200. It seems that you have done your own cost/time trade-off analysis and have decided that in paying for a ticket early (on a no-cancellation / refund basis?), the time and cost of travelling to London, airport parking, the time and cost of a stop-over in Istanbul outweighs booking later on, flying from a local airport on a direct flight. |
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Post by aberbeeg on Mar 3, 2019 18:48:55 GMT
Well the London airport flights via Istanbul were averaging about £200 when flights came out. i understand you want to push your business but please don’t make out your prices are reasonable. I paid £185 from Istanbul to Baku return with Turkish Airlines. But if you can get a flight full of “punters” to shell out almost £500 each good luck to you but it’s a big no from me. For the absence of doubt, this is not my business, I have no connection with the business nor have never been a previous customer. My only previous interaction with the company is a quick chat with a customer in Nanning who seemed quite happy with their services. Good on you for getting flights for £200. It seems that you have done your own cost/time trade-off analysis and have decided that in paying for a ticket early (on a no-cancellation / refund basis?), the time and cost of travelling to London, airport parking, the time and cost of a stop-over in Istanbul outweighs booking later on, flying from a local airport on a direct flight. As I said earlier each to their own. |
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Post by eppingblue on Mar 3, 2019 21:46:04 GMT
How do know its his business ? I travelled to Tbilisi with Turkish and would have preferred to do this trip with them but I've checked their prices pretty much every day since the fixtures came out and they've never been lower than the £ 400 return that they are now. Add to that the to and from London possibly different airports and at £ 445 this isn't such a bad deal. Comparing it with the cost from Istanbul is a bit ridiculous, its a third of the distance. Providing the outward take off is sufficiently early to give you a Thursday night out in Baku then it pretty much beats every thing else leaving from Wales on the Thursday morning. If the return departure is mid morning onwards then you get a night out after the game and back in plenty of time to be at work on Monday morning. If the departure is Thursday evening and the return 1 o-clock Sunday morning then its much less appealing. To be honest I'm surprised they can do it for that price, given the length of time the plane will be sitting on the tarmac in Baku. You could gain a night out in Baku. significantly reduced transfer costs and greater likelihood of being able to work on the Monday. Of course you can di it cheaper. My Istanbul to Baku leg is only $ 47 each way. In fact with no luggage it could have been $ 30 each way. I'm waiting on the London Istanbul bit I'm expecting to do all the flight for around £ 170 return. From the way your both pushing the flight I can only assume your both part of Wonky Sheep. As a seasoned traveller who usually travels with my Mrs I personally would never pay almost a GRAND for what your offering ( but each to their own) i recently paid £678 for return flights from Birmingham to Melbourne with Emirates via Hong Kong and Bali. wonky sheep is a business that has recently got on the Welsh and Northern Ireland bandwagon it’s a business and it needs to make a profit. Nothing wrong with that. As I say each to their own but it’s a no from me No, its nothing to do with me. I always arrange my own travel. The last time I went on an organised Welsh trip was Cologne in 1979 with the Cardiff City Supporters club. I still think its not a bad deal even though I expect to pay £ 170 for the return flights. I wont be doing it but I'm 15 minutes from Stansted with cheap flights to Istanbul and connections to Baku. The friends who came with me to Tbilisi paid around £ 150 in petrol, parking and a transfer between Heathrow and Gatwick. That was between 2 so added £ 75 quid to their trip. We cant get back on the Sunday from Baku unless we're prepared to leave at 5 am for the airport,. We're losing a day's work. Its probably the only reasonable way of leaving South Wales on the Thursday morning and have that night out in Baku. Anything else seems to get you there in the middle of the night. If you factor all of that in then its a better sounding deal. |
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Post by rioonamazy on Mar 7, 2019 20:28:44 GMT
I’d be happy to stay in Istanbul for a night or two before moving on to a match elsewhere. Turkey away not too desirable. I have just booked myself Heathrow to Istanbul for £120 return with BA and then in a couple of weeks Buta Airways will have Istanbul to Baku for aroun £80 all being well! I am staying in Istanbul for 2 nights to have a nosey and just make sure of no problems with connections. Hotels are about £25-£30 a night in both cities so peanuts! Looking forward to Baku! |
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Post by rioonamazy on Mar 7, 2019 20:33:30 GMT
Im sure everyone is aware but just incase. Note that BA.Turkish & BUTA airlines fly to istanbul but different airports. These are at least 2hrs apart. So be wary of interconnecting flights.
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Post by wonkysheep on Mar 8, 2019 8:10:20 GMT
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Post by aberbeeg on Mar 8, 2019 9:25:50 GMT
No, its nothing to do with me. I always arrange my own travel. The last time I went on an organised Welsh trip was Cologne in 1979 with the Cardiff City Supporters club. I still think its not a bad deal even though I expect to pay £ 170 for the return flights. I wont be doing it but I'm 15 minutes from Stansted with cheap flights to Istanbul and connections to Baku. The friends who came with me to Tbilisi paid around £ 150 in petrol, parking and a transfer between Heathrow and Gatwick. That was between 2 so added £ 75 quid to their trip. We cant get back on the Sunday from Baku unless we're prepared to leave at 5 am for the airport,. We're losing a day's work. Its probably the only reasonable way of leaving South Wales on the Thursday morning and have that night out in Baku. Anything else seems to get you there in the middle of the night. If you factor all of that in then its a better sounding deal. Actually the prices are even higher than first quoted. I’d be amazed if they manage to fill that trip at those crazy prices.the flights alone is now OVER £500 each!!!! And the two night trip in near £700!!!! |
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Post by sleepy on Mar 8, 2019 10:10:09 GMT
No, its nothing to do with me. I always arrange my own travel. The last time I went on an organised Welsh trip was Cologne in 1979 with the Cardiff City Supporters club. I still think its not a bad deal even though I expect to pay £ 170 for the return flights. I wont be doing it but I'm 15 minutes from Stansted with cheap flights to Istanbul and connections to Baku. The friends who came with me to Tbilisi paid around £ 150 in petrol, parking and a transfer between Heathrow and Gatwick. That was between 2 so added £ 75 quid to their trip. We cant get back on the Sunday from Baku unless we're prepared to leave at 5 am for the airport,. We're losing a day's work. Its probably the only reasonable way of leaving South Wales on the Thursday morning and have that night out in Baku. Anything else seems to get you there in the middle of the night. If you factor all of that in then its a better sounding deal. Actually the prices are even higher than first quoted. I’d be amazed if they manage to fill that trip at those crazy prices.the flights alone is now OVER £500 each!!!! And the two night trip in near £700!!!! It is a lot of money but compared to other options available right now, it compares well. It you don't have the time to drive to London then hop around Europe for best part of 24 hours before even getting to Azerbaijan, I see how this could work. In fact this is the first time that I would consider using Wonky Sheep due to it being such an easy trip from Cardiff. I don't work for them by the way, but there are trying to run business and help out fans and I'm not convinced they are as expensive as what you suggeste. But I'm happy to be proved wrong. For fans booking RIGHT NOW, is there a flight leaving on the Thursday 14th at a reasonable hour, and which allows me to go to work on Monday 18th, with only 1 stop at most each way, for less than £350? |
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Post by steveh on Mar 8, 2019 11:19:03 GMT
No there isn’t, I live in York and can only find 2 decent options, Birmingham and Manchester. Both are £400 with awful departure and arrival times.
For an extra £100 I’m considering the direct flight with Wonky Sheep, and I’ll just stay down there until after the home game on Tuesday night.
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Post by welshiron on Mar 8, 2019 11:28:33 GMT
You pay for convenience and it is a trip I am seriously considering. I dont want to be hanging around waiting for transfers worrying about cancellations.
Decent flight times on my doorstep so if I know I can get tickets I could well be in.
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Post by steveh on Mar 8, 2019 11:43:04 GMT
That’s my thinking as well.
I think the cost and inconvenient flights will deter quite a few, so unless they play in their smallest stadium (capacity 11,000), I think getting tickets won’t be a problem.
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Post by eppingblue on Mar 8, 2019 11:55:01 GMT
You pay for convenience and it is a trip I am seriously considering. I dont want to be hanging around waiting for transfers worrying about cancellations. Decent flight times on my doorstep so if I know I can get tickets I could well be in. You'll definitely be able to get a ticket. We'll be able to have as many as we want and there could be 50k empty seats in the ground. Baku looks very really reasonable with a plentiful supply of cheap hotels and beer a pound a pint. On the subject of this tour it works for the factors you and the lad from York have outlined. You can get cheaper but it generally much longer travel times with early starts and late arrivals and if you can factor in less time off work then maybe it works. On the ticket, then going to this game in isolation should give you enough to give you entitlement to tickets for the finals should we get there. Yes its getting harder to get tickets but generally its only the most entitled 2 or 3 thousand who are getting tickets. In fact it will probably considerably less for the remaining qualifiers this time. Get yourself on the ladder and who knows you could be going back to Baku. There appears one possible position that will yield games in Baku, Rome, Baku and if you finish second Amsterdam followed by a quarter final in Baku. |
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Post by eppingblue on Mar 8, 2019 11:56:37 GMT
That’s my thinking as well. I think the cost and inconvenient flights will deter quite a few, so unless they play in their smallest stadium (capacity 11,000), I think getting tickets won’t be a problem. I would think they'll play in the big stadium. It will be the last home game before its due to host in the finals |
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Post by Martyn Moses on Mar 8, 2019 11:57:20 GMT
Anyone know about the entry Visa process for Azerbajan ?
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Post by mx47 on Mar 8, 2019 13:36:28 GMT
Anyone know about the entry Visa process for Azerbajan ? I'll probably getting my Visa from here...hope that helps!! evisa.gov.az/en/ |
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