Re: Your last plane journey
Posted: 27 Aug 2010 21:43
You make it sound like you're now speaking to us beyond the grave!buckethead wrote:I flew quite a bit in my short 15 year life.
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You make it sound like you're now speaking to us beyond the grave!buckethead wrote:I flew quite a bit in my short 15 year life.
If you saw what would happen to wings on a large transport aircraft that were NOT flexible enough to handle turbulence, I would be willing to bet you would freak out even more...buckethead wrote:the 747's flexible wings in turbulence for some reason freak me out
... and if it's Ryanair, your price is roughly €1 plus the credit card fee, baggage fee, insurance, taxes, the toilet allowance, food, cabin crew makeup ancillary charge, wing fee (15€ for a plane with one wing, 30€ for one with two wings), engine tax, breathable air fee, fuel, baggage handler deodorant charge, and the open-your-wallet-and-empty-it-into-the-bag tax. Of course, if you want to fly into a city that appears on a map and has more than a population of one farmer, two chickens and an angry bus driver, you need to multiply all that by 17.Class 165 wrote:Quote from 'The Flying Book' by David Blatner':orudge wrote:The oft-quoted mantra on FlyerTalk is basically: don't try to understand airline ticket pricing, it actually makes no sense. And that's coming from the Internet's most experienced frequent flyers.JamieLei wrote:I really don't understand how plane ticketing works. Whilst I understand yield management, this situation is preposterous
(From a piece by Dave Barry originally published in the Miami Herald, June 12, 1998)
Q. Airline fares are very confusing. How, exactly, does the airline determine the price of my ticket?
A. Many cost factors are involved in flying an airplane from Point A to Point B, including distance, passanger load, whether each pilot will get his own pilot hat or they're going to share, and whether Point B has a runway.
Q. So the airlines use these cost factors to calculate a rational price for my ticket?
A. No. That is determined by Rudy the Fare Chicken, who decides the price of each ticket individually by pecking on a computer keyboard sprinkled with corn. If an airline agent tells you that they're having "computer problems", this means that Rudy is sick, and technicians are trying to activate the backup system, Conrad the Fare Hamster.
... by which time, the British Airways flight looks like an attractive option!donchatryit wrote:... and if it's Ryanair, your price is roughly €1 plus the credit card fee, baggage fee, insurance, taxes, the toilet allowance, food, cabin crew makeup ancillary charge, wing fee (15€ for a plane with one wing, 30€ for one with two wings), engine tax, breathable air fee, fuel, baggage handler deodorant charge, and the open-your-wallet-and-empty-it-into-the-bag tax. Of course, if you want to fly into a city that appears on a map and has more than a population of one farmer, two chickens and an angry bus driver, you need to multiply all that by 17.
Or easyjet. There's always easyjet or even flybe.orudge wrote:... by which time, the British Airways flight looks like an attractive option!donchatryit wrote:... and if it's Ryanair, your price is roughly €1 plus the credit card fee, baggage fee, insurance, taxes, the toilet allowance, food, cabin crew makeup ancillary charge, wing fee (15€ for a plane with one wing, 30€ for one with two wings), engine tax, breathable air fee, fuel, baggage handler deodorant charge, and the open-your-wallet-and-empty-it-into-the-bag tax. Of course, if you want to fly into a city that appears on a map and has more than a population of one farmer, two chickens and an angry bus driver, you need to multiply all that by 17.
That's not the point we're making here! They still charge for all sorts of extras whereas BA doesn't.donchatryit wrote:Or easyjet. There's always easyjet or even flybe.orudge wrote:... by which time, the British Airways flight looks like an attractive option!donchatryit wrote:... and if it's Ryanair, your price is roughly €1 plus the credit card fee, baggage fee, insurance, taxes, the toilet allowance, food, cabin crew makeup ancillary charge, wing fee (15€ for a plane with one wing, 30€ for one with two wings), engine tax, breathable air fee, fuel, baggage handler deodorant charge, and the open-your-wallet-and-empty-it-into-the-bag tax. Of course, if you want to fly into a city that appears on a map and has more than a population of one farmer, two chickens and an angry bus driver, you need to multiply all that by 17.
On the Asiana flights you must've noticed that Koreans sleep during 99% of the flight!orudge wrote:a good 7-8 hours sleep there, best sleep I've ever had in an airplane!
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