| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 72.1 | Yes, talk to your travel agent | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Wed Mar 19 1986 09:12 | 7 |
| APEX fares or EXCURSION fares will cut the costs of air travel
considerably. Special regulations apply regarding advance booking
and prepayment.
Such fares are available from all SAS gateways in the U.S.
Children aged between 2 and 12 travel at 50% of the normal fare;
an infant under 2 pays 10% of the normal fare.
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| 72.2 | TWA also cheap | HSK03::PEURA | Pekka Peura * CSC * Helsinki | Fri Mar 21 1986 17:24 | 9 |
| TWA has also started a line to Helsinki and their price is
even lower than Finnairs (atleast during the special offer which
goes on for i think about 2 months)
Finnair also had to reduce prices after the TWA, but i think
TWA price is still a little lower.
(Finnair has a direct flight to Helsinki but with TWA you'll have
to change in London)
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| 72.3 | flying to sweden | CYGNUS::OLSEN | | Mon Feb 02 1987 16:57 | 4 |
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For trips to Norway,Sweden and Denmark with SAS call VIP in Lexinton
Ma. They have special rates now also and Lill Connolly is very
knowledgeable.
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| 72.4 | Things your local travel agent won't tell you | 16BITS::SAVAGE | Neil @ Spit Brook | Fri Jul 21 1989 10:33 | 38 |
| Group soc.culture.nordic
article 331
From: [email protected] (Steven Hotz)
Subject: July airfares
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
In July, the business travelers disappear, and to keep the planes full,
the Scandinavian airlines (which are government subsidized, I believe)
have roundtrip fares which are almost half the regular fares. You
won't get these quoted to you by your friendly corner travel agent here
because they don't appear in his data base. And the reason for
roundtrips is to encourage domestic family excursions rather than,
uh... American (and German and Japanese) tourists.
Sometimes, it's even cheap for a one-way fare. For instance, in 1987
it was about $100 to fly from Bergen to Trondheim. It would have
cost a few MORE dollars to go by bus! And the bus trip would have
been overnight and would have lasted about 13 hours!
You can wait until you get there to make reservations. Or you can
simply call them from the States (remembering the time difference).
In Norway, call SAS or Braathens/SAFE or Wideroe. In Sweden,
call SAS or Linjeflug. SAS does mostly big north/south hops and
international flying, the other airlines handle just domestic
traffic. For some reason, the agents are a little surprised by
direct calls from the U.S., but they're all very capable and they
speak English quite well. You can make reservations by phone and
pay for the ticket when you get there.
As a matter of fact, do the same with hotel reservations. I did.
It was like making reservations across town.
(If your experiences either confirm or contradict this observation,
let me know. I have no idea whether anyone reads this stuff.)
Dave Walden
[email protected]
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| 72.5 | Profit, not subsidies | OSL01::MAURITZ | Bus Cons; ph 47-2-160290; @NWO | Wed Jul 26 1989 04:00 | 20 |
| re .4, just a quick nit
SAS is not subsidized by the government(s); it is owned 50% by the
governments and 50% public shares through holding companies in each
of the countries. The proportion owned by the national holding
companies is according to a formula 2-2-3 (Dk-Nw-Sw). The holding
companies are quoted on each of the countries' stock exchanges (i.e.,
total shares available being 50%, as governments have othe 50%).
SAS as a company is not quoted on any exchange.
SAS is one of the worlds more profitable airlines, due in no small
part to their Swedish Gen Mgr, Jan "Janne" Carlzon. The good summer
rates (as well as other "specials") could be said to be "subsidized"
by business travellers; however, it is closer to the truth to say
that SAS is always on the lookout to fill seats that would otherwise
go empty by offering special pricing that have the type of restrictions
that make them impractical for the business traveller.
Mauritz
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| 72.6 | Inter-Scandiniavian vs. domestic flights | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Mon Jul 31 1989 13:49 | 24 |
| Group soc.culture.nordic
article 549
From: [email protected] (Petri Suominen)
Subject: Re: Reservations (was July airfares)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
> Scandinavian airfares in July:
>
> These lower fares are available for flights WITHIN
> Scandinavia, most commonly within one country, although
> there are special SAS roundtrip airfares in July for trips
These fares are available on all inter-Skandinavian
flights by Finnair and SAS. Fares are roundtrip and
valid until August 15th (Will be available during Xmas
season too). For example Helsinki-Copenhagen is FIM 850
(approx $200) roundtrip. Flight has to be paid for within
3 days from reservation and ticket is valid for flights
and dates shown only, no refunds.
During that same time domestic flights in Finland cost
FIM 111 /zone (ex. Helsinki-Rovaniemi is 3 zones) one-way.
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