[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] [elian-EFJ1a5riuIw at public.gmane.org: wikimedia conference, round two]

Tue Oct 19 17:26:38 UTC 2004

Anthere wrote:

> Best I can suggest is to prepare a *very* solid report for a city. Low 
> costs, good accomodation, plenty of locals to help, funny nights, 
> conference and sleeping at the same place... do all this, and you get 
> a chance ! :-)

The main thing would probably be plane tickets, if anyone manages to 
come up with some great ideas or good pointers to cheap transatlantic 
tickets.  This depends partly on when exactly the conference is and how 
the airline market fluctuates over the next six months or so, but in the 
one European vacation I've paid for (not counting family trips when I 
was a kid), the plane tickets accounted for around 75% of the total trip 
costs.  It seems hard to find a transatlantic flight for under US$600 in 
the summer, and NYC-London is the only route that is even that 
cheap---most others are $800-$1100.

Of course, perhaps something exciting could happen in the international 
airline market in the next few months...

-Mark