Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A perfect example of why airlines are in serious trouble. It may sound like a small percentage, but if 4 or 5 percent of their revenue goes away because the average miles someone is willing to drive vs. fly goes up, they will not survive in their current form...very few businesses with a big capital investment and low margins can survive this kind of downturn. Someone wrote to say they would sue....well unless a security guard does something inappropriate or negligent you won't have a case....Where they do get impacted is by customers voting with their automobiles to drive on trips that they would have flown on in the past...This is a big deal for airlines. - --- Roland Smith <roland@dnai.com> wrote: > A local example here in California. A trip from > Oakland to Pasadena > requires a flight from Oakland airport to Burbank > airport and a motor trip > to Pasadena of ten miles on a fast moving freeway. > > The air travel time is now as follows: > Home to Oakland airport 20 min > Baggage check in 30 min > Time at airport security 90 min > Waiting 30 > min > Flight time 60 > min > Baggage pick up and car rental 45 min > Drive to Pasadena 15 min > Various delays 30 min > > Total time 5 hr 20 > min > > Drive from home to Pasadena, 375 miles doorstep to > doorstep, 5 hr 15 min. > > When you consider the reduced cost and stress, it is > preferable to drive. > We save on two tickets and the car rental. In > addition, we have the > convenience of stopping for an ice cream cone > whenever we want. Also, no > film scanner and limit on our luggage. > > This is a frequent travel for us due to family > matters. In the past years > we flew. Now we drive and Southwest Airlines has > one less customer. Should > that concern them? Have they lost others? > > Roland Smith > Oakland, California > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <SthRosner@aol.com> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 3:57 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] airport security kinda long. > ;-) > > > > In a message dated 7/4/02 4:21:04 PM Eastern > Daylight Time, > > images@InfoAve.Net writes: > > > > > Travel is not fun any more. > > > > Yeah it can be, Tina, but not business travel when > you have to get there > and > > get home. Try Amtrak's California Zephyr, Chicago > to San Francisco, timed > to > > leave chicago mid-afternoon, overnight across the > Iowa-Nebraska-Colorado > > plains, Denver for breakfast, climbing through and > across the Colorado > > Rockies the first full day, Salt Lake City at > dinner time, Utah-Nevada > desert > > the second night and the Donner Pass and the > Sierra Nevada Mountains the > > second full day. Movies in the club car and a > decent dining car with > > fresh-cooked meals. > > > > Or VIA from Vancouver to Calgary or Edmonton. > Gorgeous. > > > > Or transatlantic on whatever ship is available (I > think only QE2 is > regularly > > scheduled now). > > > > But it ain't easy and it ain't inexpensive. > > > > Seth LaK 9 > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html