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London Trip October Update (October 17, 2025)
London Trip Fast Facts
Medication
Flight Groups and Information
Chaperone Groups
Itineraries
Odds and Ends
Final Required Trip Meeting: November 19, 2025 @ 7pm (Virtual)
London Trip Fast Facts
484 Travelers
265 Band Members
16 Flight Groups
58 Individual Flights to get to London and back
3,726,800 individual flight miles
238 Hotel Rooms
Shipping over 2 tons of instruments & EQ
Medication
All Pickerington Local Schools Policies for medications will be in effect for the trip.
LINK TO PLSD Medication Policies, Forms, and Collection Info
Flight Groups and Flight Information
Thank you for your patience! We have 484 travelers going to London and placing travelers into groups and onto flights was an enormous task.
The Band Team worked very hard to build groups. There are an inordinate amount of variables involved in building groups of this size. Every effort was made to accommodate requests.
We have 16 different flight groups departing from Columbus (CMH), Cincinnati (CVG), and Cleveland (CLE).
If your flight group departs from CLE or CVG there will be round trip motor coach transfers from Pickerington to your departure airport and back to Pickerington at the end of the trip.
If your flight departs from CMH you are responsible for getting yourself and/or your child from Pickerington to CMH and back.
Please keep in mind that the flight blocks were set based on availability, flight schedules, our group size, and our itinerary needs for the arrival day.
Our priorities for placing travelers on flights were:
- Students with medical needs
- Keeping family groups together
- Evenly distributing students, chaperones and staff for proper supervision
We did our absolute best to place people on flights honoring the criteria above.
PLEASE NOTE THAT AIRLINES CAN CHANGE FLIGHT TIMES and/or AIRCRAFT AT ANY TIME. THE TRAVEL COMPANY WILL ALERT US OF CHANGES.
All group flyers will be able to bring:
One Checked Bag
One Carry-on-bag
One Personal Item
Please check your airlines baggage site (linked on flight group pages) for exact dimensions and weights for each type of item.
Thank you! LINK TO FLIGHT GROUPS
Chaperone Groups
Students are now able to see their chaperone groups as part of the flight group information. For questions about groups please contact Mr. Stowe or Mr. Young.
Due to flight assignments, some students will have flight-only chaperones and then a chaperone group while in London.
Thank you!
Itineraries
Below are links to the most up-to-date itineraries for our London Parade trip. We will be adding student curfew times, student dress codes, and some odds and ends for our final trip meeting on November 19. Thank you!
Students (Novotel London West)
Followers (Holiday Inn Kensington, High Street)
Final Trip Meeting (November 19, 2025 @ 7pm)
Final London Traveler Meeting
Wednesday, November 19 · 7:00 – 8:00pm
Time zone: America/New_York
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/iab-vgje-nmm
Or dial: (US) +1 423-735-3235 PIN: 519 728 115#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/iab-vgje-nmm?pin=8838518747413
Odds and Ends
Hotels: Hotel assignments and requested room types are listed on the London Master Roster on the Flight Groups site ( LINK TO FLIGHT GROUPS ). The hotels will do their best to accommodate room type requests.
Parade Viewing: There is plenty of on street parade viewing and that is how almost all spectators view the London Parade. Some of our parade viewers in 2017 moved around so they could see the band multiple times during the parade. There are also optional grand stand viewing tickets that you can purchase on your own via Ticket Master.
Travel Insurance Policy: The travel insurance policy included in the package has been posted to the website for your reference.
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