Hi Julien, I guess is a question of planning. I tend to book my flights at least 3 months ahead. Then a flight Madrid-Europe-Madrid, for example, could be so law as 80 Euros (replace Europe with Munich, London, Paris, Brussels, or any other preferred EU destination). For the same period (a week, including Saturday night), Madrid-Dallas-Madrid is about 550 Euros. This typically works also just purchasing 5-6 weeks ahead of the flight departure. Regards, Jordi > De: Julien Laganier <julien.IETF@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Responder a: <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx> > Fecha: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:13:40 +0200 > Para: "ietf@xxxxxxxx" <ietf@xxxxxxxx>, <jordi.palet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Asunto: Re: Making IETF happening in different regions > > Hi Jordi, > > On Friday 24 March 2006 06:10, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: >> Not really. If you look to the recent sponsors, the current one and >> the next one, they are all European companies, hosting IETF in >> North America. >> >> Actually it can be presented in the other way around, as they host >> here, 50% of the attendees are getting indirectly subsidized by >> those sponsors decision to host here because their travel expenses >> are lower. So the cost for the participants from the rest of the >> world is higher. > > I do not agree that the cost for "rest of the world" participants is > necessarily higher when me meet in US. It is usually cheaper for me to > travel from EU to US than to travel from EU to EU. For example I paid > 350 euros and 460 euros to go from France to Washington DC and San > Francisco, respectively. That's more or less the minimum I am used to > pay for intra-EU trips. > > So it rather seems that the cost of intercontinental flights is low > when there is a lot of different carriers (competition!) on the > hub-to-hub intercontinental trunk of the trip. > > My two cents. > > -- julien > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf ********************************************** The IPv6 Portal: http://www.ipv6tf.org Barcelona 2005 Global IPv6 Summit Slides available at: http://www.ipv6-es.com This electronic message contains information which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information, including attached files, is prohibited. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf