[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] [elian-EFJ1a5riuIw-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg at public.gmane.org: wikimedia conference, round two]

Tue Oct 19 19:16:51 UTC 2004

Delirium a écrit:
> Anthere wrote:
> 
>> Are you volunteering to try to negociate for us good travel 
>> transatlantic ticket Mark ?
>>
>> That is a great idea you have here, and I hope you can help on this.
>> It will be much appreciated.
> 
> 
> I'll certainly be willing to help, but I have no particular experience 
> in the travel market besides scouring the internet.  I could put 
> together a list of the best prices I can personally find though, and 
> people can wiki-update as necessary.  If there are any people who 
> actually work as travel agents who can help us out, that'd of course be 
> ideal. =]
> 
> One caveat is that it's very hard to predict the best prices.  It used 
> to be true that basically the earlier you buy tickets in advance, the 
> cheaper they are.  That's no longer true, because sometimes as the date 
> pulls closer prices will drop dramatically if it turns out there's too 
> many unsold seats left and the airline needs to get rid of them (last 
> year ticket prices for flights in June and July dropped quite a bit in 
> March and April).  But you can't count on or predict that well either, 
> so all we can really do is give people information and let them guess 
> for themselves...
> 
> -Mark

Yeah, that is true...
Well, information might reveal valuable anyway I think. I would suppose 
that north american, especially on the east cost, should be able to find 
devent prices. I remember some Paris-New York deals could be really nice.

ant