Having taken these multi stop flights myself from Scotland, I found that the journey there is not too bad because of the excitement of going - but the return journey mmmm.....

A couple of days before leaving I start thinking about the return trip - all those stops 3 is bad enough but 4 ? Jetlagged and tired, all you want to do is get home to a nice cup of tea.

We vowed never to do it after a nightmare trip with Delta to atlanta/gatwick/edinburgh when we missed the connection in Atlanta with a delay from Tampa, then missed our flight in Gatwick and finally got home nearly 24 hours after we left. Our bags finally arrived two days later !

Now we always look for no more than one connection and prefer to pay a few more ££'s We love taking an airport stay before we go now - Gatwick or Glasgow - gets the holiday off to an early start [msnsmile2]

How about flying to Gatwick with BA and picking up Virgin or BA to Orlando, or Flybe to Birmingahm and picking up a charter, or driving to Edinburgh and using Delta direct to Atlanta then MCO, or maybe even KLM Aberdeen to Amsterdam and going with KLM or Martinair