Really? Perhaps in your strange world but folk with children will have to
take some time off during the summer to fit in with the school holidays

You're kidding?

On this side of the pond parents can and do take the kids on holiday anytime
they want.


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In message , at 03:23:40
on Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Roger Traviss
remarked:
Really? Perhaps in your strange world but folk with children will have to
take some time off during the summer to fit in with the school holidays

You're kidding?

On this side of the pond parents can and do take the kids on holiday anytime
they want.

Which side of the pond are you? In the UK it's almost impossible to get
permission to take kids out of school during term-time for a holiday.

My own school says it won't authorise term-time absence for any of the
following reasons:

availability of cheap holidays
availability of desired accommodation
poor weather experienced in school holiday periods
overlap with the beginning or end of term

.... so all that really leaves is religious festivals or unavoidable
family matters (like burying a Grandmother who lives overseas).
--
Roland Perry

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:24:00 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 03:23:40
on Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Roger Traviss
remarked:
Really? Perhaps in your strange world but folk with children will have to
take some time off during the summer to fit in with the school holidays

You're kidding?

On this side of the pond parents can and do take the kids on holiday anytime
they want.

Which side of the pond are you? In the UK it's almost impossible to get
permission to take kids out of school during term-time for a holiday.

Who needs permission? The 50 quid fine is less than the excess it costs
in travel costs in peak months.

B2003

In message , at 12:26:26 on Fri, 30 Mar
2012, d remarked:
Which side of the pond are you? In the UK it's almost impossible to get
permission to take kids out of school during term-time for a holiday.

Who needs permission? The 50 quid fine is less than the excess it costs
in travel costs in peak months.

It's nothing to do with fines. Parents and schools need to feel like
they are on the same side, and there's a huge amount of emotional
blackmail over this particular issue.
--
Roland Perry

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:57:51 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:26:26 on Fri, 30 Mar
2012, d remarked:
Which side of the pond are you? In the UK it's almost impossible to get
permission to take kids out of school during term-time for a holiday.

Who needs permission? The 50 quid fine is less than the excess it costs
in travel costs in peak months.

It's nothing to do with fines. Parents and schools need to feel like
they are on the same side, and there's a huge amount of emotional
blackmail over this particular issue.

The real blackmail is in the holiday companies and airlines stiffing people
with exhorbitant fares during school holidays. There's no reason for them to
do it , they just do it because they can. Its naked profiteering.

B2003

In message , at 13:31:32 on Fri, 30 Mar
2012, d remarked:
The real blackmail is in the holiday companies and airlines stiffing people
with exhorbitant fares during school holidays. There's no reason for them to
do it , they just do it because they can. Its naked profiteering.

They price things according to supply and demand. It's difficult to
criticise that in a capitalist economy.
--
Roland Perry

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:53:16 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:31:32 on Fri, 30 Mar
2012, d remarked:
The real blackmail is in the holiday companies and airlines stiffing people
with exhorbitant fares during school holidays. There's no reason for them to
do it , they just do it because they can. Its naked profiteering.

They price things according to supply and demand. It's difficult to
criticise that in a capitalist economy.

Except they put the prices up in the expectation of demand long before
the season, not actual demand during it.

B2003

On 30/03/2012 14:31, d wrote:
The real blackmail is in the holiday companies and airlines stiffing people
with exhorbitant fares during school holidays. There's no reason for them to
do it , they just do it because they can. Its naked profiteering.


Isn't it just a case of them offering lower fares during quieter periods.

Are railways profiteering by charging more during peak periods?

MB wrote:

On 30/03/2012 14:31, d wrote:
The real blackmail is in the holiday companies and airlines stiffing people
with exhorbitant fares during school holidays. There's no reason for them to
do it , they just do it because they can. Its naked profiteering.


Isn't it just a case of them offering lower fares during quieter periods.

Are railways profiteering by charging more during peak periods?


Almost certainly, yes. The prime example is Virgin Trains' peak
services into Euston which are far from rammed full. Virgin has
chosen to charge very high unrestricted fares in order to extract a
huge income from these services even though they are far from full.
Lower unrestricted fares would mean more passengers would travel,
filling up the trains, but at a lower overall income to Virgin, which
is why they prefer the stinging, ultra-high fares.

In the USA, which we in the UK often regard as the home of unfettered
capitalism and a mostly unregulated free market, such practices as
Virgin Trains routinely operates would be regarded as evidence of
illegal profiteering and punished severely.

On Mar 30, 3:31*pm, wrote:

The real blackmail is in the holiday companies and airlines stiffing people
with exhorbitant fares during school holidays. There's no reason for them to
do it , they just do it because they can. Its naked profiteering.

There is more demand for a limited commodity, ergo the price is
higher. That's just market economics.

The cheaper prices at other times encourages those who can (those
without children, primarily) to holiday at other times.

Neil