BS: Cheap Flights are a blessing

Subject: RE: BS: Cheap Flights are a blessing
From: Wolfgang
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 12:36 PM

I do hope flights will get much more expensive again even if that means I will not be able to do some journeys I certainly would enjoy. I will do other journeys instead.

Rich people will always be able to buy what they consider worth buying like for instance space travel. So what? Conservation is served best by many people changing parts of their way of life. Money is the best incentive to change and it will work not as good with people who have more money than others. I do not want to wait with conservation until the too big gap between rich and poor is closed.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Cheap Flights are a blessing
From: sian, west wales
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 11:32 AM

I can't say I agree with the super-cheap flights but neither am I enamoured of the superficial responses of politicians. UK Tories are suggesting that everyone gets a nice 2000 miles/year allowance so we can all have our nice holidays. OK - that means that my yob cousin (trust me: he is a yob) and his mates can jet off to Dublin or wherever for debauched stag parties, but I (and a lot of other immigrants) can't afford to go visit our relatives once a year.

When they knock private/corporate jets on the head, as well as world/business/first class seats and *very* short haul flights, I'll start taking them seriously.

Oh - and another thing about cheap flights. I work for a small arts group. Cheap flights make international co-operation and networking possible for us, whereas they used to be solely for the well-funded mainstream arts groups.

I'm actually very pro-conservation but the current proposals will just 'inconvenience' the rich or well-funded, while cutting the rest of us out of the picture all together. Level up the playing field, politicians!

sian

Subject: RE: BS: Cheap Flights are a blessing
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 10:38 AM

Sure it's nice to fly on the cheap, but at what cost in the long run? Will it really be worth the price we will pay down the road?

Subject: RE: BS: Cheap Flights are a blessing
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 10:11 AM

Being a slave owner was was quite fun too, I suppose.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheap Flights are a blessing
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 10:09 AM

Must be nice.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheap Flights are a blessing
From: Dickey
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 09:51 AM

I don't believe it but:

As a permanent pricing feature, Skybus plans to make 10 seats on all flights aboard its 150-seat Airbus A319s available at $10 each way. Average fares will be pegged at about 50% of the going rate of other carriers serving the same markets.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2007-04-24-skybus-launch_N.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Cheap Flights are a blessing
From: Ythanside
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 08:23 AM

Ditto ALL of that, in spades.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheap Flights are a blessing
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 08:16 AM

I have a tendancy to agree there.. In the last 10 years I would never have seen so much of the world - not just internationally but my own country, had air travel not worked out cheaper short term than rail or road. Scotland used to be a 2-3 day drive or an overnight rail journey with prohibitive costs for me. Now I can fly there in a few hours and still have change from £100.

My generation is the first of our family to go abroad for purposes other than giving 'Jerry' and 'the Bosche' a good hammering. One upon a time, Italy was as unavailable as the moon, Denmark was a history lesson and America a bad example to us all. Now I can go there and see for myself.

LTS

Subject: BS: Cheap Flights are a blessing
From: Black Beauty
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 07:32 AM

With so much talk about pollution caused by air traffic. Has anyone stopped to thank their lucky stars for cheap air fares ?

As a world traveller I think it's fantastic that ordinary working class people can see so many Europeans counties for the cost of a weekend in a local hotel.

Flights twenty years ago to European counties were so expensive.

Love

Charlotte