London/Glasgow/Paris?
 

My husband and I are in the early stages of planning a trip. London and Glasgow are definitely on the agenda and we’d like to include Paris as well. We have two weeks (including travel days) for this vacation, we’re coming from Los Angeles and we want to use American miles for the flights. It seems to me that including Paris in the itinerary means at least a day of backtracking since we have to go through London to get to and from Glasgow in any event. A London/Paris open jaw ticket, taking the Chunnel from one city to the other, helps a little but doesn’t eliminate the London/Glasgow loop. For efficiency’s sake, I’m leaning toward dropping Paris from the itinerary but I’d appreciate feedback from folks who have done (or decided not to do) a London/Glasgow/Paris itinerary. I love, love, love Paris so I’m holding out hope that my worries about the logistics of a Paris leg of the trip are overblown. Thanks in advance!

I see no reason for any backtracking no matter which order you do them.

Options include:

Fly to London, then train to Glasgow, fly to Paris, fly home.

Fly to Paris, fly to Glasgow, train to London, fly home.

And there are others ...

Thanks. I was under the impression that there weren't any non-stop flights between Glasgow and Paris, but I guess I was mistaken.

There are several options for non-stops between Glasgow (GLA or Prestwick) and Paris (CDG or Orly) At least BA, AF, easyJet, airBerlin, and RyanAir - if not more.

Play around with www.skyscanner.net

There are loads of flights from Glasgow to Paris.

No, there are not loads of non-stop flights from Glasgow to Paris. Only easyjet currently do.
With flybe or BA you would have at least one intermediate stop, Air Berlin stopped flying from Glasgow years ago and Ryanair no longer fly to Beauvais from Prestwick, they've switched to Edinburgh. Air France and easyjet also have a direct flight from Edinburgh.
There is now a coach service from Glasgow Buchanan St bus station direct to Edinburgh Airport. By train you would need to change at Edinburgh Haymarket then catch the airport bus.

Go with Easyjet from Glasgow direct to Paris, it's the simplest option. I personally find it a pain getting to Edinburgh and Prestwick, why would you bother when Glasgow airport has a direct flight and is only 15 minutes along motorway.

Thanks all for taking the time to respond. Easyjet is an airline that I am only superficially familiar with; my general impression of them is unfavorable but since that may be my best option, logistically speaking, I'll spend some time researching them and see how I come out.

>>my general impression of them is unfavorable <<

Why is that? They are one of the largest airlines in the world. Absolutely nothing wrong w/ easyJet - just understand their baggage and check in rules.

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Agree! They are one of the better low cost airlines and we have used them many times with no issues.

Meant to add...the flight can't be much longer than an hour or so...even if it's not the greatest airline I could put up with some minor annoyances for such a short but convenient flight...

No problems with Easy Jet any more than any other airline I've taken.

I have flown with Easyjet no less that 20 times over the years and apart from a few late departures I've never had any serious issues with them.