On Friday 07 July 2006 18:00, Patty Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 07:12:56AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > When it comes at travel, I can bet that travelling to Sarajevo or > > Edinburgh from outside Europe is actually not much more expensive than > > travelling to one of the major European hubs (London, Paris, > > Amsterdam, Frankfurt) through one of the major airline companies > > alliances. > > That's not entirely accurate. I just did a quick search on flights into SJJ > and EDI for June of next year (to compare prices on a relatively equal > scale) and found that prices to SJJ were ~ $1600-$1700 USD *per ticket* and > prices to EDI were ~ $900-$1000 USD *per ticket*. That is quite the price > difference between flying to the two locations from the west coast of the > United States. > > And those are just estimates - the prices for EDI were closer to $900, the > prices for SJJ were closer to $1700. About a 700 EUR difference *per > ticket*. > > For comparison, for the same search parameters but to CDG (Paris) is > ~$1200. Frankfurt is ~ $1250. London is ~$900. Amsterdam is ~$1100. > > SJJ is significantly more expensive to fly to from the US than it is to fly > to EDI, and still a bit more expensive than the major European hubs. I > haven't looked at other countries, unfortunately, but I wouldn't be > surprised to find similar trends flying into Europe. > > Witty closing here, > Patty
Here are some prices from Kompas - local Bosnian travel agency, http://www.kompas-sarajevo.com/nm/anmviewer.asp?a=4&z=3 these prices are at least 20% higher than at foreign agencies, but still here they are, just for orientaition, if you book in advance expect lower prices: Airport taxes not included: @Patty - flight for L.A. from Sarajevo on their list is only 632 euros + taxes! To Europe: Belegrade 69 EUR Zagreb 110 EUR Ljubljana 160 EUR Brussels 149 EUR Budapest 190 EUR Paris 139 EUR Prague 149 EUR Vienna 149 EUR Amsterdam 149 EUR Istanbul 160 EUR Madrid 198 EUR London 149 EUR Moscow 146 EUR Copenhagen 160 EUR Stockholm 160 EUR Rome 145 EUR Berlin 169 EUR Munich 149 EUR Zurich 149 EUR Oslo 195 EUR So, from Bosnia retrun flight to other continents: New York 480 EUR Chicago 579 EUR Toronto 560 EUR Boston 549 EUR Houston 635 EUR Sydney 1049 EUR Vancouver 890 EUR Dallas 610 EUR Washington 560 EUR Atlanta 570 EUR Montreal 572 EUR Los Angeles 632 EUR San Francisco 660 EUR Kuala Lumpur 750 EUR Singapore 599 EUR Bangkok 629 EUR Hong Kong 690 EUR Dubai 420 EUR Regards, Safir -- Dojdov pak tajno moja, zvezda prakam da te povika... _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
