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Old April 13th, 2006, 04:15 PM posted to rec.travel.usa-canada,rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.marketplace,rec.travel.air
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Default Cheap Tickets YEG to Ukraine?

Vancouver may have more discount fares, due to its' immediate
proximity to the USA, combined with so many international airlines
using it.

Unfortunately, other than an occassional flight to the US, Deadmonton
no longer has any international airlines visiting. They were all
discouraged by the 2 disgraced generals , featured in the book
TARNISHED BRASS,mismanaging the local airport, so there are no longer
any international flights from YEG!


On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:01:00 GMT, (Király) wrote:
In rec.travel.europe Asterix wrote:

Your figures are balderdash, since you are ignoring all the fees and
taxes from the communist Canada government.
These are almost $300 per person from western Canada to Toronto.


Even more nonsense. Taxes and fees on the return WestJet fare of $315 I
quoted above are $113.37 if booked on the WestJet website. That makes a
grand total of $428.37. Where are you getting your ridiculous numbers
from? Business class fares?

There almost no seats available on the so-called seat sales from
western Canada to Toronto.


Even more nonsense. Wait a minute, you haven't told us when you plan to
go. Are you leaving this weekend? If so, I'm not surprised all the cheap
seats are sold out. But if you are planning a few months in advance, I
don't believe you cannot find any seats on sale. Not for a minute.

Idiots such as you, who nothing about the reality of paying for
transport from western Canada, are a great cause for western
alienation.


Oh really? I live in Vancouver. Can't get much more Western in Canada
than that. I just flew to Edmonton six days ago, flew back two days ago,
and booked it myself. Last summer I flew Vancouver to Budapest. I
wanted to stop in Hamilton, Ontario for four days each way. I booked
Vancouver-Edmonton-Hamilton, and Hamilton-Calgary-Vancouver on the
WestJet website, all were seat sale price. Ticket cost about $450
including all taxes and fees. For $45 I rented a car in Hamilton
and dropped it off at the Toronto airport to catch my flight to
Budapest. I bought the tickets for that flight from my local discount
travel agent here in Vancouver for *hundreds* less than from any online
source, including the airline's own website.

So I know a fair amount about paying for travel from Western Canada, much
more than you if you can't find a cheaper fare than $1,800 for Edmonton
to Toronto.

Getting back on topic:

1) Print out the seat sale price on that Aerosvit Toronto-Kiev flight,
take it around to some discount travel agents, and ask if they can beat
it. Don't bother going to Thomas Cook or any of those kinds of agents,
you need a *discounter*. Have you tried Travel Cuts, like I suggested at
the beginning of the thread?

2) Ask the agent if she can get a domestic YEG-YYZ ticket *added on* to
the Aerosvit ticket. Domestic flights that are attached to international
flights on the same ticket like this can cost a fraction of what those
domestic flights cost if booked as seperate tickets.

3) If the agent can do neither 1 nor 2, then book the Aerosvit flight
directly with Aerosvit, and book your own domestic flight on WestJet's
website. Total cost: C$620 + C$315 = C$935 (plus taxes). That is NOT a
bad deal for a return flight from Western Canada to Ukraine. But I still
think you can get a cheaper deal if you look around hard enough for the
right travel agent.

It would be nice for you to realize that I have been *helping* you
throughout this thread. Maybe I should stop doing that.


 




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