Sorry to be bothering everyone with the recent spate of emails, but i've little else to be at.
Was chatting to Chigozie yesterday and he mentioned a trip abroad, I had been thinking about it earlier yesterday, and I thought about a joint trip with the Aviation soc to Toulouse to the Airbus factory.
Chigozie liked the idea, so I sent a message to the chair of the aviation soc to gauge interest. ( I made it clear that it was only an idea, and it wasn't anything official.)
Anyway here's what we were saying
Hey, I was at the newcastle trip and what not.
Anyway, I'm on the Engineering Soc. Committee, and we were talking about trips abroad with another guy, on facebook. Now I stress that this is very much under the table, and is nothing more than a brainstorm, and I'm asking you here, and not on emails or anything, but what would you say the aviation soceity's interest would be in organising with us, a joint trip to toulouse to the Airbus factory? Something you could look into? Or a definitly not? We just had this thought between ourselves and that we could run it with you guys. Thoughts?
Hi Killian, Toulouse has always been brought up as a possIble trip for the society. We actually looked into it last year but flights from Dublin seemed to be a big problem.. it's definitely something that we would be interested in and especially working with the engineering soc. A joint trip to Toulouse would be great if we could get reasonable prices and dates. I'll mention it to the committee as well.. but it's definitely something worth looking into!
flights to carcassonne in january after exams each way are around €70, plus a train (11-15 ish) to toulouse means return flights for 180 ish, a guy on the committee said the slc will probably cover 150 ish, so we could end up with transport for 35
never thought of Carcassone airport tbh, only ever tried Toulouse. It seems like a great idea, and i dont see why the committee would have any problems with that. I'm going to post it on the committee facebook page and see what they say.
Good stuff, We haven't really told ours yet, but I'll bring it up at the first meeting, and I can't say if it'll happen or if they'll be interested, but I'll keep you posted. We're probably going to meet before term starts at any rate.
Ok thanks! Getting good responses so far, we're using facebook to communicate until our first meeting in Week 1. We had Toulouse down as a possible trip again for this year and now knowing we can get cheaper flights with ryanair, its something that we would love to fo! It would be great to get involved the engineering soc too!
yeah defo, and the SLC would be more likely to give us more dosh if we had the two socs!
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well i've received very positive feedback from committee so you can let your committee know that we are definitely interested. It's a great idea!
I've no idea yet if we can even get into the site, they could be well secretive and 9/11 paranoid, but we'll give it a stab.
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they do guided tours of the factory, it's all on their website.. let me know what your committee have to say when ye next meet! ttyl! 
So anyway: They seemed all for it, it'll need more looking into, and toulouse is a big enough city so there'll be plenty to do and go to. Plus the train from Carcassonne is on a TGV line, so if we pay an extra 2 euro we can get on a TGV!
It seems achieveable, and i've plenty of experience in French and booking things in French and on what to do in France, and what not, so I'm sure it'll be pretty easily organised!
Let me know what you think.
K.