[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] [elian-EFJ1a5riuIw-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg at public.gmane.org: wikimedia conference, round two]

[Delirium]

Anthere wrote:

> Are you volunteering to try to negociate for us good travel 
> transatlantic ticket Mark ?
>
> That is a great idea you have here, and I hope you can help on this.
> It will be much appreciated.

I'll certainly be willing to help, but I have no particular experience 
in the travel market besides scouring the internet.  I could put 
together a list of the best prices I can personally find though, and 
people can wiki-update as necessary.  If there are any people who 
actually work as travel agents who can help us out, that'd of course be 
ideal. =]

One caveat is that it's very hard to predict the best prices.  It used 
to be true that basically the earlier you buy tickets in advance, the 
cheaper they are.  That's no longer true, because sometimes as the date 
pulls closer prices will drop dramatically if it turns out there's too 
many unsold seats left and the airline needs to get rid of them (last 
year ticket prices for flights in June and July dropped quite a bit in 
March and April).  But you can't count on or predict that well either, 
so all we can really do is give people information and let them guess 
for themselves...

-Mark