Hello Simon,
On 18 Mar 2008, at 11:33, Simon McLean wrote:
>>> Not really... hotels and flights are much more expensive (in
>>> dollars) than last year. For us it more or less the same. I really
>>> wanted the $700 flight this year... :(
>>
>> Just tried to book a flight with Air France from Brussels -> San
>> Francisco (2-way): 635
>>
>> Thought wow this is *cheap* until I realised that the price was
>> valid only from the USA (with a US credit card) and in USD
>>
>> From Europe the price for the same flight is 820 EUR wich is ~ 1
>> 300 USD ie twice as expensive, talk about being screwed :-(
>>
>> = tmk =
>
> We build travel applications (in WO). Just checked the price on that
> route for you. Best price depends on your dates of course, but if
> you fly out on the 6th and back on the 14th with American,
> connecting in JFK, we can get it for 512.60 GBP. Not a big
> difference, but would leave you with quite a few extra beer
> dollars :-).
Thanks a lot for the tip.
Problem is I do not want to fly an any american company because they
have the horrible horrible idea of using hubs which are conveniences
for them but a TOTAL nightmare for travellers (how's backward is that
in terms of servicing your customers).
And after doing the Brussels - JFK - SF thing three times in a row for
WWDC, and ending up with my luggage lost *each* time (probably due
to), flight delays *each time* and eventually a 24-hour long trip each
time , I figured there must be a better way.
So now I ony flight direct from Paris or Amsterdam to SF, the trip
last ~ 14h, and they still manage to lose my luggage, but at least I
win 10 hours :-)
> If you know the exact dates you want I can get one or our res team
> to check consolidated fares for you.
Oh that'd be nice, thanks a lot! I'm planning to leave Brussels on
Friday, June 6 and SF on Tuesday June 17 (but monday is ok too).
The prices are changing everyday and the funny thing is that they seem
to get cheaper :-o
I've now found a flight Brussels - Paris - SF and back for 650 EUR
(leaving on June 6 and back on June 17), which is great.
But seems impossible to purchase through their website. I've already
tried probably a dozen time over 3 days.
It basically takes 10 minutes to fill the various forms and when I
come to the last one with the credit card information, confirm button
just doesn't work. Tried with 3 different browsers :-(. Really terrible.
= tmk =
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