Jordi, You are speaking about low cost flights. I am sure they are readily available from/to any capital like Madrid, but what about other places. When I want to go from a secondary french city to a secondary city in germany without over the week-end stay (say monday-thursday) the prices can start at 500 euros or more, even if booked three months in advance. What I tried to say is that w.r.t. price, the continent location seems to matter more or less the same than the number of airlines going there. A major city with lot of connecting flights (Minneapolis ;) is much more cheaper to flight to than a secondary city. You seems to agree since you mentioned below European flights between European capitals. --julien On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:49, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: > 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 mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf -- julien -- julien _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf