Author: simon
More Wightlink Cancellations Announced
Wednesday, 16th December, 2009 at 8:14 am, Isle of Wight
If you’re looking to use the Wightlink car ferry service between Portsmouth-Fishbourne, get yourself ready for a number of cancellation in the run up to the weekend and Saturday. Wightlink cite “operational reasons,” while apologising for any inconvenience.
Thursday 17 December 2009
From Portsmouth Gunwharf 06:30; 08:30; 10:30 and 12:30
From Fishbourne 07:30; 09:30; 11:30 and 13:30
Friday 18 December 2009
From Portsmouth Gunwharf 06:30; 08:30; 10:30; 12:30; 14:30; 16:30; 18:30 and 20:30
From Fishbourne 07:30; 09:30; 11:30; 13:30; 15:30; 17:30; 19:30 and 21:30
Saturday 19 December 2009
From Portsmouth Gunwharf 10:30 and 12:30
From Fishbourne 11:30 and 13:30
Additional sailing
In addition to these cancelled sailings an additional sailing will operate from Portsmouth at 11:00 and from Fishbourne at 12:00 on Thursday 17 December and an additional sailing will operate from Portsmouth at 13:30 and from Fishbourne at 14:30 on Saturday 19 December
Passengers wishing to travel are advised to contact Wightlink Reservations to check availability before travelling.
Wightlink would like to apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. Passengers concerned about their sailing(s) should call Wightlink reservations on 0871 376 1000.
Related posts:
- Wightlink Cancellations Today
Cancellations on the Fishbourne - Portsmouth Gunwharf Wightlink car ferry... - Wightlink Ferries: More Cancellations
Wightlink have had to pull some sailings today and tomorrow... - Wightlink Cancellations on Sunday
Whoops two more cancellations on WightLink ferries.... - Wightlink Portsmouth/Fishborne Ferry Time Changes
Two time changes.... - More Cancellations on WightLink Ferries
Yet more cancellations on the Yarmouth - Lymington ferry service...
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It does seem fairly regular at the moment doesn’t it? For balance, we should also point out that we’ve only been putting out the travel updates from the ferry companies for the last nine months, so can’t really judge if it’s worse than previous years or not.
If you look at all of our Isle of Wight Ferry stories, it should give you a quick guide.
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Wightlink is taking the mickey out of us.
Less ferries = lower running costs for them + higher prices for us (and inconvenience).
Wightlink pricing is demand driven (like EasyJet).
Less ferries create more demand on the limited ferries that are available, so prices get hiked up.
Every announcement that comes out makes it more clear that they couldn’t care less now they’ve escaped the OFT enquiry that Andrew Turner tried to launch.
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fewer
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Here’s another thing, Why should we have to give them more money by having to call their 0871 number to find out when the ferries that they’re canceling are running?
It should be an 0800 number, not goodness knows how much a minute.
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don’t use the premium rate number!
02392 827761 & 02392 855230 gets you Ryde & Fishbourne ferries
01590 647638 for Yarmouth/Lymington
not free but will be if you have a free calls package, they will be cheaper than 0871
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If they were ‘Key to the Island’ god help us! – Red Funnel gets my booking once again
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we should have some sort of bad service,”raspberry” awards here on the island, im sure wightlink or redfunnel would win hands down
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“Key to the island”
What a joke.
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Let’s start the ‘bad service – raspberry’ awards?
It’s a gret idea and I agree, Wightlink would win hands down.
I hope the Mp is keeping a dossier on their terrible service. And Red Funnel’s of course.
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This is awful service.
I have been thinking this for a while, but perhaps VB should start a campaign for transparency at all of the ferry companies. Operational reasons aren’t good enough – tell us what is actually wrong! We may not understand it, but if they keep telling us operational reasons are at fault, everyone will just think it is a pack of lies and they are trying to cut costs.
It is to their own benefit to keep everyone informed and happy – and doesn’t cost anything more than a few more seconds of typing!
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Lets go back to the fundamentals shall we? From what i gather the basic problem with the Fishbourne route is that St Clare is unreliable and slow to load, making the use of a 5 ferry summer service extremely difficult and it has been decided that the chaos is not justified given the expense – this is why St Catherine, the traditionally least reliable and least used Saint, has been laid up.
Thats 4 ferries; 3 more or less reliable and 1 troublesome (St Clare). Now add into that mix a prolonged period of bad weather which Clare takes badly too (i believe she’s currently underpowered awaiting new parts) plus the neccesary annual refits in a dry dock all the ferries go through, and you have 2 reliable Saints in service and St Clare.
Needless to say, if there’s a problem with any of them or the weather gets too rough for Clare, you get cancellations, especially if the repairs are deferred until the vessels forthcoming refit.
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Its a Wightstink!!
I agree with Adam.
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