#30

I could’ve used a better choice or words in a better order there.

#31

If you wanted to waste some time you could find flights that say they only have one seat left and hope theyre overbooked and take the free hotel and vouchers. It’d be like gambling except really dull.

#32

Fuck sake, yet more proof if any was needed that travelling is just a non-fun bunch of wank

#33

There’s an overnight boat to the Netherlands, I don’t think that the price fluctuates and the train from Liverpool Street is covered in the price. I think you can just turn up. I think it’d be a nice trip, you’d have to pretend you were on a plane though.

#34

Bloody travelling with it’s price like everything else

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#35

Stepmum worked for Air France in the 90s, just an admin or HR job. We would pack for a hot country and then turn up at the airport and see what was available on stand-by. Got bumped to 1st class all the time too, it was great.

#36

just book online like all the other schmucks, you’re not Lord Fucking Byron

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#37

Tell that to the good folks at deed poll!

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#38

What would you do about accommodation? Must have been tricky pre-internet and all that.

#39

Dunno about this but earlier today at the auto check-in there was a dude next to us who punched the touchscreen after it told him that his flight was overbooked and therefore wouldn’t print out his boarding pass

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#40

Best mate from college worked at Southampton Airport for Flybe. Would frequently just turn up on a Friday with hand luggage and ask him to send me somewhere for £50 or less. Great times. Would book a Monday flight home soon as I found whatever B&B I ended up in.

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#41

Just walk into a place and get a room?

#42

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#43

Would sort it on arrival - lot more literature/promotion for hotels was knocking about before the internet and they weren’t fussy about it being particularly nice accommodation.

#44

I’ll go anywhere, just get me on a plane
I’ve got…
JUST BOOK IT
Ok sir, you leave for Japan in an hour and return again tomorrow

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#45

One way obviously, it’s the sort of thing I’d want to repeat in a language I can’t understand

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#46

Just book one of those cheap Eurostar deals.

#47

Is that one of those tickets for a tenner but you don’t know when exactly you’re going?

#48

You should get on the next flight from whatever airport you go to, then keep on doing that at every airport and see how long it takes for you to get back to the first airport. Could be done in the space of two flights, could take decades.

Get the Guardian to cover the costs and write a travel blog about it for them.

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#49

Bet he’d spend a lot of time in Schipol.