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On 29/11/2014 10:32, Roland Perry wrote:
Robin9 remarked: Roland Perry;145904 Wrote: CJB remarked:- More expensive per mile than Concorde was ... http://tinyurl.com/kt2kplh tickets-cost-return-flight-MALAGA.html- I think you'll find a taxi is even more expensive. If you're travelling alone. If you share the taxi - and the cost- with other people, the cost per person is quite reasonable for the door-to-door convenience. A taxi can also be cheaper than a week's parking at many airports. You usually have to be living fairly close to the airport (and certainly around its nominal names town or city) for that to be the case. I live over 70m from Heathrow. There is no way that a taxi (both ways) can compete with parking at the airport. At least, not just in cost. |
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I think you'll find a taxi is even more expensive. If you're travelling alone. If you share the taxi - and the cost- with other people, the cost per person is quite reasonable for the door-to-door convenience. A taxi can also be cheaper than a week's parking at many airports. You usually have to be living fairly close to the airport (and certainly around its nominal names town or city) for that to be the case. I live over 70m from Heathrow. There is no way that a taxi (both ways) can compete with parking at the airport. At least, not just in cost. Perhaps we need a optimiser ? Cheap parking at the airport often needs an extra car to shuttle bus interchange. So near-to-airport parking plus taxi is worth pricing as is long-term hotel parking included in the overnight rate. And does anyone offer a valet to drive your car from hotel to airport when you leave and park it afterwards ? -- -- Mike D |
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wrote: On 28.11.14 12:41, CJB wrote: More expensive per mile than Concorde was ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...1805/London-fo ur-five-expensive-airport-transfers-Europe-Heathrow-Express-tops-list-t ickets-cost-return-flight-MALAGA.html Southampton to Alderney is probably one of the most expensive flights per mile at about £250 return. Does WRY to PPW still operate? That might well be the record price. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Home: Mobile: +44 7973 377646 | Web: http://www.davros.org Please reply to the Reply-To address, which is: |
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2014, Michael R N Dolbear remarked: A taxi can also be cheaper than a week's parking at many airports. You usually have to be living fairly close to the airport (and certainly around its nominal names town or city) for that to be the case. I live over 70m from Heathrow. There is no way that a taxi (both ways) can compete with parking at the airport. At least, not just in cost. There's obviously going to be a break-even point, although 140m in a car is going to cost £30 on top of the parking, just counting marginal costs. I looked up long stay parking at Heathrow just now, and it's £145 a week, with an "offer" of £77 at the moment. When I used to fly from Birmingham it was 50m each way and a taxi was cheaper than a week in their mid-stay car park. And of course the car was available for other people to use at home, while I was away. The other solution is for them to give you a lift to the airport, if they have the odd three hours to spare, twice. -- Roland Perry |
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On 02.12.14 7:02, Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In message , " wrote: On 28.11.14 12:41, CJB wrote: More expensive per mile than Concorde was ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...1805/London-fo ur-five-expensive-airport-transfers-Europe-Heathrow-Express-tops-list-t ickets-cost-return-flight-MALAGA.html Southampton to Alderney is probably one of the most expensive flights per mile at about £250 return. Does WRY to PPW still operate? That might well be the record price. Yes, it does, though I don't know the price. |
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On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 11:33:17AM +0100, Robin9 wrote:
In London it is quite common for customers to request a civilized driver when booking a car for a non-local journey. If it were common I think I would have heard of it at least once in the last nearly twenty years. I haven't. I've heard of cab firms getting requests for drivers of particular races, but that is of course not the same as requesting a driver who knows how to drive and keeps his car clean. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Human Rights left unattended may be removed, destroyed, or damaged by the security services. |
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On 02.12.14 7:02, Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In message , " wrote: On 28.11.14 12:41, CJB wrote: More expensive per mile than Concorde was ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...1805/London-fo ur-five-expensive-airport-transfers-Europe-Heathrow-Express-tops-list-t ickets-cost-return-flight-MALAGA.html Southampton to Alderney is probably one of the most expensive flights per mile at about £250 return. Does WRY to PPW still operate? That might well be the record price. It wouldn't surprise me if the ticket price from WRY to PPW is much different for locals than for outsiders -- mostly people looking to say that they did the world's shortest flight. I know that residents of Alderney pay a much lower fare to travel by air to Guernsey than non-residents do. The same also applies for flights between St. Pierre and Miquelon. IIRC, the ferry from St. Peter Port to Sark also had a double fare structure. |
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On 01/12/2014 20:26, Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
"JNugent" wrote I think you'll find a taxi is even more expensive. If you're travelling alone. If you share the taxi - and the cost- with other people, the cost per person is quite reasonable for the door-to-door convenience. A taxi can also be cheaper than a week's parking at many airports. You usually have to be living fairly close to the airport (and certainly around its nominal names town or city) for that to be the case. I live over 70m from Heathrow. There is no way that a taxi (both ways) can compete with parking at the airport. At least, not just in cost. Perhaps we need a optimiser ? Cheap parking at the airport often needs an extra car to shuttle bus interchange. That (the bus) is always provided at major airport car-parks. So near-to-airport parking plus taxi is worth pricing as is long-term hotel parking included in the overnight rate. Not necessary. And does anyone offer a valet to drive your car from hotel to airport when you leave and park it afterwards ? The place I use offers that as an extra service, at an extra charge. |
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