Right, some of the group have booked flights today. To Kiruna, from Birmingham. As per Tinky Petes link.
https://www.expedia.co.uk/Flights-Search?trip=roundtrip&leg1=fro m%3ABirmingham%2C+England%2C+U K+%28BHX-All+Airports%29%2Cto%3AKiruna% 2C+Sweden+%28KRN%29%2Cdepartur e%3A23%2F01%2F2017TANYT&leg2=f rom%3AKiruna%2C+Sweden+%28KRN% 29%2Cto%3ABirmingham%2C+Englan d%2C+UK+%28BHX-All+Airports%29%2Cdeparture%3A 03%2F02%2F2017TANYT&passengers =children%3A0%2Cadults%3A1%2Cs eniors%3A0%2Cinfantinlap%3AY&o ptions=cabinclass%3Aeconomy%2C nopenalty%3AN%2Csortby%3Aprice &mode=search
Outward Bound Flight: 06:05
Multiple Airlines
8h 45m flight time
2 stops
FRA, ARN
Arrival Kiruna 15:50
At the time of writing, this is the seventh link down, from Tinky Petes link, priced at £259.83 return [the first price in red font]
If you select that flight, we are all flying out on the same flight. If you click select on that flight, the next page takes you to the choice of return flights.
Most of those return flights are leaving at 6:05am from Kiruna. on the 03/02/17. Free return flight.
That choice number 1.
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Choice number 2
Im staying on, for an extra few days for the sami market, and flying out from kiruna on the 06/02/17
If you want to do this, click on the link above, but in the box for the return flight, which states 03/02/17, change the date from the 03/02/17 to 06/02/17
Meaning the return flight will be on the 06/02/17. Not the 03/02/17.
Here is the link, already done for your convenience: [With the return date showing the 06/02/17]
https://www.expedia.co.uk/Flights-S...y&origref=www.expedia.co.uk/Flight-Search-All
As you can see the departure flight is the same flight from birmigham, [yet the cost is lower at £216.03 return]
06:05 - 15:50
Multiple Airlines
8h 45m
BHX - KRN
2 stops
FRA, ARN
[same outward bound flight from birmingham]
But now Click select, and the return flight is the 06/02/17, the fifth link down [at the time of writing] on the 06/02/17
16:25 - 22:15 [Arrival back at birmingham]
Multiple Airlines
6h 50m flight time
KRN - BHX
2 stops
ARN, FRA Return Cost £26.60
A couple of the group, myself included have chosen choice 2, to attend the market, and fly back on the 06/02/17.
So we should all be leaving the bush together, on the 02/02/17 to go back to porjus from Vietas on the same bus together.
Then the members who want to catch the flight on the 03/02/17 will be getting a bus back up to Kiruna from Porjus, presumably spending the night in a hotel, and catching the early plane back to blighty on the 03/02/17.
I will be getting the bus from Porjus in the opposite direction, to Jokkmokk, and spending a few days at the sami market, then getting the bus back up to Kiruna on the morning of the 06/02/17 catching the plane departing Kiruna at 16:25 back to blighty.
Locations to stay in jokkmokk are sketchy at the moment. All the hotels are booked solid, but the campsite, about a mile down the road, offers camping, showers, sauna, and a washing machine.
They are only open mon-fri, so I'll be calling to book a pitch on Monday.
