Dear prospective student,
We congratulate you again on being accepted onto the International Medical Commencement Programme and we look forward to seeing you in Tralee in February 2012. In relation to your travel arrangements to Ireland, we are keen to help in every way we can and we would like to advise you of the following:
1. We advise students to arrive into Ireland on one of the following dates i.e. 29th January, 30th January, 31st January or 1st February.
2. We strongly recommend you take a flight path which takes you through Heathrow and then connect to Cork or Shannon airport from Heathrow with Aer Lingus.
The main carriers from the Middle East to Ireland/UK are as follows:
Saudi Arabia Airlines [
www.saudiairlines.com];
British Midlands International [
www.flybmi.com];
British Airways [
www.ba.com];
Ethiad [
www.ethiadairways.com];
Emirates [
www.emirates.com].
The main carrier from Heathrow to Cork/Shannon is Aer lingus [
www.aerlingus.com].
On the dates outlined the following are the timetables from London Heathrow to Cork and Shannon respectively. We strongly encourage you to take the route through Cork.
From London Heathrow (LHR) to Cork (ORK)
Flight No. Depart Arrive
EI 711 09:55 11:10
EI 715 14:05 15:20
EI 723 18:05 19:20
EI 725 22:00 23:15
From London Heathrow (LHR) to Shannon (SNN)
Flight No. Depart Arrive
EI 381 10:05 11:30
EI 385 15:10 16:35
EI 387 19:25 20:55
3. We will provide an airport collection service for students that arrive into Cork or Shannon on the dates outlined above. Once you select your travel schedule it is essential that you provide this to us.
4. If, for whatever reason, you have booked or will book a travel schedule to a different airport it is important that you notify us so that we can advise you of internal transfers available to you.
Please complete the attached flight details form as soon as you have booked your flights and forward to
mcp@rcsi.ie so that we can make the necessary airport pick up arrangements.
Best Rgds,
Liz
Liz Healy
MCP Operations Manager
Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
C/o International Office
Institute of Technology Tralee
Dromthacker
Tralee
Co Kerry
Tel: 066 7191712
Fax: 066 7191633
Email:
elizabethhealy@rcsi.ie
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Lila O Donnell
International Office
Institute of Technology, Tralee
North Campus
Tralee
Co Kerry
Tel: +353 66 7191718
Fax: +353 66 7191633
