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Fly
or drive to Glasgow, there are then two choices:
Air service (click here for more information)
This service is now accessed through www.flybe.com
There is a 20Kg weight limit per person; ONE suitcase per person
only. There are Sunday flights in July and August only.
Ferry service (click here for more information)
Road Equivalent Tariff (RET) has been extended until 2014, so
passenger and vehicle fares are considerably reduced. RET applies
to all Outer Island routes, including inter-island ferries.
The most relevant of these are:
Oban - Castlebay (Barra)
Oban - Lochboisdale (South Uist)
Oban - Coll/Tiree
Uig(Skye) - Tarbert
Uig - Lochmaddy
Ullapool - Stornoway.
CalMac has introduced Island Hopper ticket No.27 for Oban-Castlebay-Ardmhor-Eriskay-Lochboisdale-Oban
which reduces the round-trip fare a little and enables a Saturday
ferry departure. Click
here for details. |
Rental cars are available on Barra:
Hughie MacNeil (0) 1871 890313
R. MacMillan (0) 1871 890 366
(If you are intending to take a hire car off the island to Eriskay
or The Uists, please check with the provider that it has a current
M.O.T. certificate, otherwise it will not be legal to do so.) |
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Air Service - Fly Flybe to Barra
Loganair operates the Glasgow-Barra flights for Flybe. The baggage
allowance has been increased to 20kg. for the time being but may be
returned to 15kg. if passenger numbers are affected by the heavier
allowance. Be warned. Flybe charge £10 flat fee for luggage
over 20kg but it will only be carried if it does not make the payload
overweight.
Information on
baggage allowances with Loganair can be found on their web site www.loganair.co.uk,
in the baggage section under the Site index.
Through flights can now be booked with Flybe from many of their destinations,
but they do not fly from any London Airport. Southampton Airport (Eastleigh)
could be an option as it has a good train service and the station
(Southamton Parkway) is in the airport. It is still possible to book
through flights with BA but BA has increased these fares considerably
since they stopped operating the Barra flights with Loganair. |
Plane Landing on Barra Beach
Click on the image for a larger photo
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Ferry
Service - Drive or take the train or coach to Oban and take
the car ferry to Castlebay, Barra.
Click
here for summer 2012 ferry timetables.
There
are also car ferry crossings from Oban to/from Lochboisdale (South
Uist) and Uig (Skye) to/from Lochmaddy (North Uist) which can tie
in with the regular car ferry service between Eriskay and Barra (Ardmhor)
- pictures below.
The way to
leave Barra by ferry on a Saturday is via the Ardmhor-Eriskay
ferry, and then the Lochboisdale – Oban ferry to the mainland.
CalMac Winter ferry timetable - Best travel days:
Oban - Castlebay: Sunday, Tuesday.
Castlebay - Oban: Monday, Wednesday. Also Fridays
from January to March only. (Before January the sailings are
on a Thursday, overnight via Lochboisdale, getting in to Oban
at 6.00 a.m. on the Friday). |
Eriskay ferry arriving at Barra |
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