also sprach Ana Carolina Comandulli <caroll@funlabs.org> [2014-10-14 08:42 +0200]: > I know that the discounts aren't spectacular, but 10% of discount > in one person ticket could help to bring another person to the > conference. Thanks for the work, Caroll! It's 10% only on business and first class tickets, regular saver tickets which we want to enable would get a 2% discount, which is negligible and which we can probably get elsewhere, e.g. a booking site, and much more when we can choose freely between airlines. They even want to charge $25 per ticket service fee. $25 is 2% of $1250, which already flies you back and forth across the Atlantic. Moreover, people would not be allowed to stay longer or arrive earlier than the meeting dates. So I think this is not worth the trouble. Unless you can convince United (or Star Alliance) to become an exclusive event partner and give us discounts in the range of 25% or so for their regular fares, we are going to prefer keeping the option of flying people in on whatever airline is cheapest. The other possibility would be to go via a travel agents specialised on events. Unfortunately, I don't know of any… -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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