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Jan wrote:
[much deleted] Hi Frank I'm not technically minded. The Op post appeared on my computer complete with "pound" signs. Which is what I said in my reply where indeed ,it does read on my computer as "pounds". However on your reply, my pound sign reads as question marks. As your postings also miss the proper encoding and MIME headers, you may want to read the instructions I posted earlier today for correcting this problem in Outlook Express. |
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"Rubber Ducky" writes:
OK, i've kinda priced it up and this is what i've come up with: UK (Birmingham) - GERMANY (Munich) BHX - MUC, Flight cost £400) It's significantly less than that at the moment: I just booked it for about 190 GBP direct with Lufthansa. It was 40 GBP cheaper with KLM via Schipol, but it was also twice as long and it involved KLM which frankly I can live without. Where are you getting your prices? I used Expedia, which may be an improvement on your source. Des |
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:04:50 GMT, "Rubber Ducky"
wrote: OK, i've kinda priced it up and this is what i've come up with: UK (Birmingham) - GERMANY (Munich) BHX - MUC, Flight cost £400) Don't know about the other fares, but the one above from Birmingham to Munich....... 400GBP ??? Who's ripping you off for that fare ?? Just 3 years back we were over in the UK and flew from London to Hahn just out from Frankfurt in Gemany and the fare with Ryan air was on special 5GBP to get there and 11GBP to get back. To these figure we had to add the airport taxes etc. GERMANY (Munich) - POLAND (Auswitch, Warsaw) (Overland, estimate £200) POLAND (Auswitch, Warsaw) - RUSSIA (St. Petersburg, Moscow) (Overland, estimate £200) RUSSIA (St. Petersburg, Moscow) - INDIA (Delhi, Japiur) (SVO - DEL, Flight cost ~£450) INDIA (Delhi, Japiur) - THAILAND (Bangkok) (DEL - BKK, Flight cost ~£275) THAILAND (Bangkok) - HONG KONG (BKK - HKG, Flight cost ~£175) HONG KONG - CHINA (Bejing) (HKG - PEK, Flight cost ~£200) CHINA (Bejing) - AUSTRALIA (Melbourne) (PEK - MEL, Flight cost ~£1000, HKG - MEL, Flight cost ~£800) AUSTRALIA (Melbourne) - FIJI (Suva) (MEL - SUV, Flight cost ~£850) FIJI (Suva) - NEW ZEALAND (Auckland, Wellington) (SUV - AUK, Flight cost ~£300) (MEL - AUK, Flight cost ~£115, AUK - SUV, Flight cost ~£425) NEW ZEALAND (Auckland, Wellington) - CHILE (Santiago) (AUK - SCL, Flight cost ~£650) CHILE (Santiago) - PERU (Lima) (Overland, estimate £200) PERU (Lima) - SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Town) (LIM - CPT, Flight cost ~£2,800) SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Town) - EGYPT (Cairo) (Overland, estimate £400) EGYPT (Cairo)- UK (Birmingham) (CAI - BHX, Flight cost ~£500) TOTAL ~£8,800 (inc. Bejing & Suva) TOTAL ~£6,800 (exc. Bejing & Suva) That flight from Lima to Cape town is the killer!!!! |
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"Des Small" wrote in message ... "Rubber Ducky" writes: OK, i've kinda priced it up and this is what i've come up with: UK (Birmingham) - GERMANY (Munich) BHX - MUC, Flight cost £400) It's significantly less than that at the moment: I just booked it for about 190 GBP direct with Lufthansa. It was 40 GBP cheaper with KLM via Schipol, but it was also twice as long and it involved KLM which frankly I can live without. Where are you getting your prices? I used Expedia, which may be an improvement on your source. Yeah my prices are from expedia but i've purposefully over-estimated. I can fine tune these details further down the road. Also is it true that in certain sceanios return tickets are cheaper than one-way? Could there be the oppurtunity for profit here - selling the return leg which I would not use? RD (MIME now fixed) |
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:03:34 +1000, "Scotty"
wrote: not really wrote in message .. . AUZ$ would suggest to me that we have too many Kiwis here and they are trying to take over "Our" dollar Too late dude, already done (just very secretely and not many people know it. 400,000 Kiwis cant all be wrong eh) Probably more here than backl home in Kiwiland.... |
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Where did you price these flights? It should be much cheaper than
that. The airlines' own websites usually give very expensive prices, and sites like Expedia, Travelocity, etc. are also usually very expensive for intercontinental flights. Your best option is to use a company like airtreks.com or trailfinders.co.uk that specializes in round-the-world airfares. "PERU (Lima) - SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Town) (LIM - CPT, Flight cost ~=A32,800)" Try Lima - Buenos Aires, and then Buenos Aires - Cape Town separately. "UK (Birmingham) - GERMANY (Munich) BHX - MUC, Flight cost =A3400) " Use Air Berlin or Ryanair or Easyjet to get from London to Munich cheaply. The flights from Delhi to Bangkok, Bangkok to Hong Kong, and Hong Kong to Beijing will all be much cheaper if you buy them in the departure city rather than in advance. "SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Town) - EGYPT (Cairo) (Overland, estimate =A3400)" Do you have any idea what is involved in going through Sudan, Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and Mozambique overland? |
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"Also is it true that in certain sceanios return tickets are cheaper
than one-way?" Yes. If you simply walk up to an airport counter with a wad of 50 quid notes and ask for a ticket on the next flight to Kathmandu, a return ticket would be more expensive than a one-way ticket. But when you buy tickets in advance from an agent, return tickets are often deeply discounted, while one-way tickets are almost never discounted. There are some cheap one-way tickets on "low-cost airlines", but those airlines only fly within one country or within one region (e.g. Europe, Southeast Asia), not between regions. "Could there be the oppurtunity for profit here - selling the return leg which I would not use?" No - it would have your name on it, so another person wouldn't be allowed to use it. If someone tries to sell you an unused airline ticket it is almost always a scam. |
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Frank Slootweg wrote:
Jan wrote: [much deleted] Hi Frank I'm not technically minded. The Op post appeared on my computer complete with "pound" signs. Which is what I said in my reply where indeed ,it does read on my computer as "pounds". However on your reply, my pound sign reads as question marks. As your postings also miss the proper encoding and MIME headers, you may want to read the instructions I posted earlier today for correcting this problem in Outlook Express. What this below??? No, that's the whole point, it did not 'show' pounds. It 'showed' a non-ASCII character, hex A3. Because it was not encoded (as it should have been), its interpretation was undefined. If ones character set was set to ISO 8859/1, it would come out as a pound symbol, but it's rather unrealistic to expect such a setting, especially when posting to international groups, like the OP did. In short: The OP had: Subject: How much (£) should i budget for this trip? ^ unencoded hex A3 character but it should have had: Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?_How_much_(=A3)_should_i_budget_for_this_tr ip=3F?= ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ as some of the responses had. And it should have had: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ as some of the responses had, but it didn't. It's kind of funny/sad when people post a posting like this, i.e. about a trip to many other countries, and expect people to adapt to your currency, while you do not adapt to other character sets. I can't make head nor tail of the above !!! And I'm not fiddling with things I don't understand. :-) Which western countries computers don't understand GBP signs??? BTW I usually put GBP and not the pound sign, Jan |
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Frank Slootweg wrote:
Rubber Ducky wrote: [more wouldbe-pound characters without the required MIME headers] See if this helps (in Outlook Express): Tools - Options... - Send tab - News Sending Format - Plain Text Settings. I *think* you have "Message format" set to "Uuencode". If so, set it to "MIME", set "Encode text using:" to "None" and untic (i.e. do *not* set) the "Allow 8-bit characters in headers" option. If this works, then set your "Mail Sending Format" the same. You're welcome! :-) Just seen this ....so I'm testing ££££££££££££££ Did that work? :-) Jan |
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On 28 Aug 2005 07:36:17 -0700, "Iceman" wrote:
Where did you price these flights? It should be much cheaper than that. The airlines' own websites usually give very expensive prices, and sites like Expedia, Travelocity, etc. are also usually very expensive for intercontinental flights. Your best option is to use a company like airtreks.com or trailfinders.co.uk that specializes in round-the-world airfares. "PERU (Lima) - SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Town) (LIM - CPT, Flight cost ~£2,800)" Try Lima - Buenos Aires, and then Buenos Aires - Cape Town separately. "UK (Birmingham) - GERMANY (Munich) BHX - MUC, Flight cost £400) " Use Air Berlin or Ryanair or Easyjet to get from London to Munich cheaply. Yeah, just after my previous post, I went and checked Ryan air's website, and although the current special dates may not suit. as an example they are currently offering say London (Stansted) to Frankfurt (Hahn) for 0.05GBP plus taxes. In fact they are currently offering this same fare structure to many airports in Europe. The flights from Delhi to Bangkok, Bangkok to Hong Kong, and Hong Kong to Beijing will all be much cheaper if you buy them in the departure city rather than in advance. "SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Town) - EGYPT (Cairo) (Overland, estimate £400)" Do you have any idea what is involved in going through Sudan, Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and Mozambique overland? |
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