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Post by me on Dec 9, 2006 15:45:13 GMT -5
could i solicit some advice? am looking for cheap flights to Kiev for a possible trip next Summer. i'd be coming from Frankfurt, toward Italy. i'd like to be able to fly to Kiev from Italy, Slovenia, Hungary or Austria. even Croatia. on whichbudget.com/ they list flights from Kiev to Baltic capitols & Rome, with blu-express. but blu-express website sez nothing about Kiev flights! [i'd fly *from* Kiev to Tallinn, surface transport to Helsinki for a visit before i fly home] |
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Post by pointofnoreturn on Dec 9, 2006 20:48:25 GMT -5
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Post by herrbert on Dec 10, 2006 12:22:13 GMT -5
I found an airline that is flying Vienna - Kiev: Air Baltic, but they are flying via Riga. online.atp.nl/tc.dll?ac=search&st=fares&tid=ATPNLGO-P99ZM3S6H-C, the site is in Dutch, but I presume, that you can make something out of this. because all online bookingforms look the same. Another option but also around 200 euros, is to fly Vienna - Kiev, with LOT Polish airlines. Making a stop in Warzaw, and keep you waiting for more than 5 hours between flights! For Rome - Kiev, the same story, nothing really cheap: online.atp.nl/tc.dll?ac=search&st=fares&tid=ATPNLGO-P99ZM3S6H-C, Ukraine International Airlines would be the cheapest for 243 all included. P.S. I used some dates in March, just to see what would happen. |
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Post by madamtrashheap on Dec 12, 2006 23:39:56 GMT -5
D, so cool to see you're planning that trip to Kiev! You mentioned it in another post and here you are sorting it already - nice one! I'm so jealous - closest I've been is on the Romanian side of the Black Sea (I know, not that close!). Looking forward to hearing about your impressions and experiences.
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Post by me on Dec 13, 2006 1:26:24 GMT -5
Kiev is still a maybe. heck, the whole trip is still a maybe!
as i've mentioned in the past, my Mom has been invited to visit friends in Münster, Germany. well, these friends were in Dallas recently <the husband was teaching a seminar at SMU law school> and reiterated the invitation.
Mom's expressed strong interest in going, and also sez that she wants me to travel with her. [i'm hoping she doesn't need me on the transatlantic flights. so i can stay after she goes home]
two of the new places i want to see are Tallinn & Kiev, where the music director from my church when i was young has moved and established Kyiv Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, as well as a church w/ big outreach ministry. <www.musicmissionkiev.org/>
[the Orchestra & Chorus were in Dallas in October. it was great to see Roger again. this has again made me want to visit Kiev; and hear that music again!]
it's quite possible, Mom will back out again. i don't know that i'd go ahead with the trip. (if she decides she needs me to be on the transatlantic plane with her, i wouldn't have the chance to see more than the area near Münster - it's beautiful & interesting there, but i've spent extended time there - and there's so much more i want to see)
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Post by WillTravel on Dec 13, 2006 4:51:51 GMT -5
Maybe the Europe by Air Flight Pass can help you do the Kiev-Tallinn part cheaply: www.europebyair.com/efp/cheapflightstoeurope.jspIn respect to your mom, that's certainly a bit tough. I wish there was some sort of program sort of like an unaccompanied minor program for nervous flyers. Is a nonstop from Germany to your home airport possible? Maybe she'd be happy if you got her to the German airport, and you arranged for a friend to get her back at the home airport. |
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Post by me on Dec 13, 2006 12:33:24 GMT -5
oh, i'd easily found Kiev-Tallinn flights! it was the other part, getting *to* Kiev that was a problem. as Herbert has pointed out, it'd be possible to get there via Riga or Warsaw, which i might pursue. regarding Mom, now she's talking about going to Kiev, too. we'll see what happens there. Edit, re your question: yes, there are non-stops from Frankfurt to Dallas/Fort Worth (one of my sisters lives near DFW airport) i'm hoping that i could accompany her from Münster to FRA and put her on the plane. i hope she'd be comfortable with that. - d |
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Post by me on Dec 17, 2006 23:04:58 GMT -5
found that there will be flights to Kiev from Pescara, Italy, with OnAir starting in May.
Pescara is across the Italian peninsula, East from Rome. anyone been there?
- d
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Post by madamtrashheap on Dec 18, 2006 20:50:39 GMT -5
Yep, for lunch, and have two friends from there (who messed up my plain Florentine accent with Pescara word-eating accents! ;D). Big port town, architecture is very "east-Italian" (my word, not official I'm sure but describes the fact that it looks different to northern Italian buildings, a bit "coastal" if you like) and great (and long) beach that is packed out in August. It doesn't need more than a day or two's stay, unless you want to lie on the beach and go to the clubs. You can see the historical centre and port in a day, then travel on to Ravenna, Rimini, Rome or Kiev in this case.
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Post by me on Dec 19, 2006 23:13:33 GMT -5
as long as "coastal" isn't like "postal," it's no problem ;D a bit "coastal" if you like) |
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Post by madamtrashheap on Dec 19, 2006 23:33:56 GMT -5
Ha ha! You're the funniest person I know...apart from me!  |
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Post by me on Dec 20, 2006 1:49:26 GMT -5
a track on www.musicmissionkiev.org/ that i'm really digging right now is one Benny Goodman made famous: Sing, Sing, Sing. czech it out! |
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Post by madamtrashheap on Dec 20, 2006 23:22:29 GMT -5
I was trying to work out the Gershwin reference...and then you changed it! Now I get it, I think!
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Post by me on Dec 22, 2006 11:18:16 GMT -5
i got my G's mixed up. Gershwin & Goodman. oh, that www.musicmissionkiev.org/ site went down for a while. it's back up now. interesting to another recent conversation, second act finale from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet is also a track on that site. - d I was trying to work out the Gershwin reference...and then you changed it! Now I get it, I think! |
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