Comments on: High Price of Flying http://www.canajunfinances.com/2008/05/30/high-price-of-flying/ Personal Finances and Consumer Concerns, essays, stories, examples and how to articles with a distinctly Canadian Point of View Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:36:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Zan http://www.canajunfinances.com/2008/05/30/high-price-of-flying/#comment-1687 Zan Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:15:31 +0000 http://www.canajunfinances.com/?p=908#comment-1687 Sounds more like you're choked at how the pricing itself is published, and not the actual cost of flying. How do you calculate the value that you or your company derived from this trip? Were you able to generate/retain more than $484 worth of business from the meeting? A company maintains a safe, reliable network of transportation, available effectively on demand between the cities of your choice, operating in virtually any weather, that you can allow you to meet with a client several hundreds of kilometers away within the same day...for only $484?! I think that is well within reason, and certainly blows any other form of transportation off the map in terms of the time value of money. Sounds more like you’re choked at how the pricing itself is published, and not the actual cost of flying.

How do you calculate the value that you or your company derived from this trip? Were you able to generate/retain more than $484 worth of business from the meeting?

A company maintains a safe, reliable network of transportation, available effectively on demand between the cities of your choice, operating in virtually any weather, that you can allow you to meet with a client several hundreds of kilometers away within the same day…for only $484?!

I think that is well within reason, and certainly blows any other form of transportation off the map in terms of the time value of money.

]]> By: This and That http://www.canajunfinances.com/2008/05/30/high-price-of-flying/#comment-1674 This and That Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:22:10 +0000 http://www.canajunfinances.com/?p=908#comment-1674 [...] Canadian Personal Finances finds out the real cost of that airline ticket. [...] [...] Canadian Personal Finances finds out the real cost of that airline ticket. [...]

]]> By: DAvid http://www.canajunfinances.com/2008/05/30/high-price-of-flying/#comment-1660 DAvid Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:13:28 +0000 http://www.canajunfinances.com/?p=908#comment-1660 I think there's a balance. We are traveling across the country, and the airfare for two of us is cheaper than the gas it would take to drive there and back. Add in ferry & hotel and meals, and the airfare seems cheap by comparison. I agree that short haul flights seem expensive, but that may be more due to landing fees, etc than costs to keep th aircraft in the air. DAvid I think there’s a balance. We are traveling across the country, and the airfare for two of us is cheaper than the gas it would take to drive there and back. Add in ferry & hotel and meals, and the airfare seems cheap by comparison. I agree that short haul flights seem expensive, but that may be more due to landing fees, etc than costs to keep th aircraft in the air.

DAvid

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