You present this together with a Ryanair itinerary showing a Prestwick-Brussels flight for that day

You present this, together with a Ryanair itinerary showing a Prestwick-Brussels flight for that day, to the conductor on the train.
When flying from Brussels, you just ask at the information desk upon arrival at Prestwick airport for a voucher, and show it plus your flight itinerary on the train.With seat sales cutting fares to as little as £20 return, including taxes, some travellers have identified this as a good way to travel cheaply within Scotland without going anywhere near Belgium; the normal one-way fare from Aberdeen to Ayr, close to Prestwick airport, is £42.50.Warning of the week: Mexico”Crime in Mexico continues at high levels, and it is increasingly violent, especially in Mexico City, Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez”, warns the US State Department. “Kidnapping, including the kidnapping of non-Mexicans, is increasing.”The trend is for so-called “express kidnappings”, which have reportedly taken place on well-traveled highways such as the Toluca Highway leading out of Mexico City.”These kidnappings are an attempt to get quick cash in exchange for the release of any individual, and they often appear to target not only the wealthy, but also middle-class persons.”Destination of the week: southern Europe, next summer, for £75 returnSummer 2002 flights are now available from Stansted to Malaga and Bristol to Faro for £75. Yesterday, Go (0870 60 76543, www.go-fly ) put next summer’s flights on sale – with a catch.Although you can book and pay now, and lock into a specific morning or afternoon, the exact departure time will not be known until slots are finalised early next year.Other routes on sale from today are Bristol-Malaga and Stansted-Faro (£85 each), and Alicante from Stansted (£90) and Bristol (£95).. Breakfast in London followed by breakfast across the Atlantic at 60,000 feet followed by breakfast in New York – 14 months ago, that ceased to be a possibility, following the fatal crash of an Air France Concorde in Paris. But on 7 November supersonic passenger travel will become a reality again, with the ageing beauty racing the sun from Heathrow to JFK and Barbados. Breakfast in London followed by breakfast across the Atlantic at 60,000 feet followed by breakfast in New York – 14 months ago, that ceased to be a possibility, following the fatal crash of an Air France Concorde in Paris. But on 7 November supersonic passenger travel will become a reality again, with the ageing beauty racing the sun from Heathrow to JFK and Barbados.
Residents of west London, Long Island and Silver Sands will get used once more to the familiar roar as the supersonic jet takes off or lands; even by British Airways’ own reckoning “Concorde’s noise footprint is 99 times higher than the Boeing 777″ which carries three times as many people.

As with implausible football result, allow me to spell that out: in noise terms, Concorde’s boots make ninety-nine times more impression than the light footwork of a modern jet.¿ In the four days since bookings began, says BA, seats have sold supersonically fast. One reason: foreign travellers cashing in on prices that vastly undercut the full return fare of £9,179 return from London to New York. If you start your journey in Bangkok, fly first class to Heathrow and connect with Concorde to New York, you pay £4,500 less despite the extra distance – no tricks, these are official published fares.For the benefit of Windsor and Richmond residents who subscribe to the “can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” theory, and the rest of us who footed the bill for the supersonic dinosaur, BA has cut the London-New York fare to just £2,999 return until the end of January, if you book by Monday – undercutting its very own Club World business class.Gordon Brown is chipping in by setting the Air Passenger Duty at just £20 for Concordistas, as I will call them – the same as on an easyJet hop from Luton to Zurich, rather than the the usual business rate of £40 that applies for anything other than the most basic charter or economy seat.¿ To save even more cash, fly on an Air France Concorde, which takes to the skies on the same day. Through discount agents, the French are selling supersonic seats from Paris to New York – plus a business-class add-on from Heathrow, Birmingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow or Southampton – for £2,700 per person return, if you travel with a friend.Passenger’s on BA’s Concorde can expect better catering than ever before. Emlyn Williams writes from Milton Keynes with the hope that they will breakfast better than he did on his first transatlantic flight in 1972, when the youth fare was £72.”I was offered, mysteriously, a ‘crescent’. Fortunately, there was a helpful French translation under each item, so I knew to expect a croissant.

Today it seems impossible to get off a plane without having had a croissant.”Perhaps he should travel on some of the airlines I fly with.Mr Williams also recalls that: “I could have had champagne with my croissant for 50p (or 1/144th of the fare). The stewardess offered me a hot towel with an enigmatic ‘We do like to have cool passengers’.”Twenty-first century transatlantic travellers are accustomed to the idea of seatback screens with a dozen different choices of video. In 1972, you watched Puppet on a Chain, “a film that literally wound its way down the cabin on the old film projection system. It was fun looking down the cabin and seeing the film at different stages”.