Fly to France in a private plane - for just £119 return! The joys of an inexpensive getaway to Le Touquet

Fly to France in a private plane - for just £119 return! The joys of flying on a budget getaway to Le Touquet in a Cessna 172Jonathan Ray was flown to northern France from Redhill Aerodrome in SurreyHe booked the 45-minute flight online via flight-sharing platform Wingly "Brilliant lunch" and stroll along Rue de Metz Updated: 1:41 PM BST, 26th October 2022

My love of flying started growing up in Kent in the 1970s. Every once in a while my dad would decide that we would go to France.

We would hop in our battered Mini Traveller, drive to at Lydd Airport in Kent and speed straight down a ramp into the clamshell mouth of a Bristol Type 170 Freighter These old propeller planes carried four cars and 20 passengers and in no time we'd be Le Touquet.

We would go in time for lunch and be back for soup er, bags full of stinky cheeses, pots of fish soup and bottles of wine.

Day trip: Jonathan Ray and his friend traveled to Le Touquet in France on a flight booked via the Wingly flight sharing platform. Above are some of the great properties in the French seaside town 'Don't worry about the cost,' Jonathan said. His flight in the four-seater Cessna 172 pictured above to Le Touquet cost just £119 return Bristol Freighters are long gone but day trips to Le Touquet are still on the agenda, thanks to the Wingly flight-sharing platform.</p><p class=You can go further and longer if you want and, my goodness, nothing could be simpler.

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Fly to France in a private plane - for just £119 return! The joys of an inexpensive getaway to Le Touquet
Fly to France in a private plane - for just £119 return! The joys of flying on a budget getaway to Le Touquet in a Cessna 172Jonathan Ray was flown to northern France from Redhill Aerodrome in SurreyHe booked the 45-minute flight online via flight-sharing platform Wingly "Brilliant lunch" and stroll along Rue de Metz Updated: 1:41 PM BST, 26th October 2022

My love of flying started growing up in Kent in the 1970s. Every once in a while my dad would decide that we would go to France.

We would hop in our battered Mini Traveller, drive to at Lydd Airport in Kent and speed straight down a ramp into the clamshell mouth of a Bristol Type 170 Freighter These old propeller planes carried four cars and 20 passengers and in no time we'd be Le Touquet.

We would go in time for lunch and be back for soup er, bags full of stinky cheeses, pots of fish soup and bottles of wine.

Day trip: Jonathan Ray and his friend traveled to Le Touquet in France on a flight booked via the Wingly flight sharing platform. Above are some of the great properties in the French seaside town 'Don't worry about the cost,' Jonathan said. His flight in the four-seater Cessna 172 pictured above to Le Touquet cost just £119 return Bristol Freighters are long gone but day trips to Le Touquet are still on the agenda, thanks to the Wingly flight-sharing platform.</p><p class=You can go further and longer if you want and, my goodness, nothing could be simpler.

Just go online, type wh...

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