Me too. Then again, I actually work for an airline so what would I know? Grant SYD QF At 10:20 PM 12/08/03 -0700, you wrote: >I would love to see that ticket because I highly doubt that there were fares >available from MEL to LAX in the $500 range, unless someone is selling their >buddy passes. > >Mark > >-----Original Message----- >From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of >Alireza Alivandivafa >Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:44 PM >To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: SP vs. 400 > > >In a message dated 8/12/2003 5:25:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >gjmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > ><< I don't know your background so I have no idea of what you do or don't >know. Some of your other posts indicate a degree of ignorance of various >aspects of airline/aviation matters. You'd be a rare person if you knew >everything about aviation. Nobody else on the list does (except Poon, >maybe!) > >So, now we are 14 years old? If you really want to get into this, you don't >seem to know too much about politics, and the degree of ignorance in your >political statements seems to say something Grant. You may work for high >and mighty Qantas, but I am an active poltical scientist who happens to know >something about airplanes and airlines and loves them even more. I don't >think I know everything about aviation, and have never made that claim. >Then again, you sit in your little box at Kingsford Smith and snipe at me >any chance you get. > > Raped in LA eh? You keep banging on about having lower fares, do you know >how much it actually costs to fly a seat from A to B. >> > >All I know is that my friends in Australia have bought tickets on QF MEL-LAX >and SYD-LAX for about 500 US. The lowest I can get, even with hotwire, is >over 800. That is a huge difference, but then again, I am an idiot and >probably cannot do math anyway