Hello, did you try to investigate prices to Zagreb or Sarajevo?
Last year i got ticket Sarajevo-Istanbul-NYC and back for about 900$ Connections between Sarajevo or Zagreb to Banja Luka is not that complicated and hopefully we will write guidelines how to come from Sarajevo/Zagreb to Banja Luka. On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm surprised to be able to attend after being certain I had a scheduling > conflict, but I am. Unfortunately, investigating fares from NYC to Banja > Luka > in late July that are still available in mid-May is making me even more > surprised about how expensive the trip is. Although I might ask for a bit > of > travel sponsorship, that doesn't scale well to everyone traveling from the > US > (or nearby parts of the Americas), and if I can find a way to reduce the > cost > by the amount of travel sponsorship I'd request, then those funds can go to > peope who need it more. > > To that end, I'm wondering if I could get enough people interested in > making a > group booking from NYC [either EWR or JFK] on Saturday July 23rd <-> Zurich > [ZRH] on Sunday July 24th, using one of the two Star Alliance flights > arriving > at 7:55am or 8:40am, and returning from Zurich at 1:00pm on the afternoon > of > Sunday July 31st. The other leg of the booking would be on B&H Airlines > directly between Zurich and Banja Luka on the 24th and the 31st, with 1h55m > or > more of scheduled connection time in each direction at the Zurich airport. > This > would also remove the need to travel from Zagreb one of the other cities > being > discussed, bypassing the ground transportation confusion completely. > > Without any group discount, at published fares, this would cost $1700-2000+ > even in economy class, based on my searching, or $1500+ if I want to accept > an > earlier departure time and an extra 1h10m layover in Amsterdam to save a > couple > hundred USD via Delta. For what it's worth, going via Zagreb or Ljubljana > didn't seem to be reliably cheaper or faster from people starting in the > US. > > If I can assemble a total group of at least 10 people who want to try this > plan, I'm willing to contact some travel agents to see if they can get a > better > fare for us. More people will make this more likely to work; I've never > done > this kind of attempt before so I don't know the thresholds which apply. > > Does this sound appealing? Assuming at least 2 or 3 people say yes, I'll > add it > to the wiki tomorrow and reply to this thread with an URL to add yourself > to. > > See you in July, I hope! > > - Jimmy Kaplowitz > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss >
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