[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] [elian-EFJ1a5riuIw-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg at public.gmane.org: wikimedia conference, round two]
Anthere
anthere9 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 19 19:16:51 UTC 2004
Delirium a écrit:
> 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
Yeah, that is true...
Well, information might reveal valuable anyway I think. I would suppose
that north american, especially on the east cost, should be able to find
devent prices. I remember some Paris-New York deals could be really nice.
ant
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