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Fly British
Airways to Barra Loganair operate the Glasgow-Barra flight for British Airways. The luggage allowance on the Loganair plane is only 15kg, and hand luggage is also limited because of the size of the plane. If you have flown into Glasgow with British Airways on a through ticket Loganair will honour the 23kg checked luggage allowance which is the BA limit. However if you fly into Glasgow with any other airline, the 15kg limit applies. 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. |
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Drive or take the train to Oban and take the car ferry to Castlebay,
Barra. Click here for summer 2008 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. |
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| Rental cars are
available on Barra: Hughie MacNeil (0) 1871 890313 R. MacMillan (0) 1871 890 366 |
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