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In response to "Or maybe a boat to Constantinople ... -- nm" by Beryllium

That's a long way, and I don't think there are regular ferries the way there are to Greek islands

Posted by Roger More (aka rogermore) Aug 27 '15, 11:14

The cheapest way back is probably to take EayJet, RyanAir or another discount airline to somewhere with a lot of flights back to Toronto, like London.

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Right. I would try to make it to Frankfurt first of all. -- nm - Loyola Aug 27, 11:23 13
- yeah, i think people are trying these things. Last minute flights just cost money. In Europe. In high season. -- nm - Andie Aug 27, 11:24 7
  - Sometimes in these situations, competing airlines offer discounted fares to stranded passengers on their empty seats. - Roger More Aug 27, 11:29 4
    - it might be the latter. it would be good PR if they did. - Andie Aug 27, 11:31 3
      - Air Canada has partner airlines as well, like Lufthansa, who would be able to help transport passengers to other airports that Air Canada operates to, - Roger More Aug 27, 11:43 2
        
        yeah, the owners have basically gone MIA. it's brutal. - Andie Aug 27, 11:46 1
        
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  - Yeah, it's the suck. I'd probably bus it just not to pay over the odds. -- nm - Loyola Aug 27, 11:29
  - Yep. I would imagine it's like when there's a traffic jam and the side streets and shortcuts all fill up too -- nm - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:25
- anywhere that hooks into a strong train system -- nm - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:23 4
  - Or go to your embassy if you have absolutely no way of getting money. -- nm - Loyola Aug 27, 11:25 3
    - and then take a train to spain and buy a village -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:26 2
      - Too bad my wife quashed this idea already. -- nm - spamlet, Reigning Blood Feud Champion Aug 27, 11:50
      - Heh. There must be some online hippy community that would be interested in that :) -- nm - Loyola Aug 27, 11:31
According to this there are a number of posibilities - oblique Aug 27, 11:19 4
- The boat part of that journey is a 10 minute ride across the Bosphorus :) - Roger More Aug 27, 11:24
- and, flights from Istanbul to Toronto this weekend cost .... $1100. With two stops. -- nm - Andie Aug 27, 11:23 2
  - This sounds like a really painful object lesson in choosing airlines wisely. - TWuG Aug 27, 11:27 1
    - they only had a couple routes., it actually could have been okay if they'd had access to a back up plane. They did not. -- nm - Andie Aug 27, 11:29
kayak to Dubrovnik -- nm - JenBro Aug 27, 11:15
Maybe a one-way bareboat charter would be possible. Athens to Portugal. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:15 3
- there are certainly a lot of one way boats from mideast to Greece, so maybe drop off, pick up and keep going -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 27, 11:45
- just anecdotal - one guy was supposed to start college, today. he is still in croatia where he went for a wedding. - Andie Aug 27, 11:17 1
  - Yeah, that sounds pretty sad :( -- nm - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:18

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