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On the Slingshot advert the dad turns off the modem to get the kids to come down for dinner...but does he also know he has disconnected the landline telephone?
yitz:
On the Slingshot advert the dad turns off the modem to get the kids to come down for dinner...but does he also know he has disconnected the landline telephone?
Even better for meal times :-)
surfisup1000:
Windows defender and its occasional severe impact on performance.
I've noticed on the odd occasion that my windows 10 seems to freeze up or run way more slowly than it should -- usually during high levels of disk activity.
Figured it out, its windows defender and realtime scanning . Switch it off (it only switches off temporarily) and speed increases exponentially.
I turned it off and run Bitdefender instead, which seems to have less impact.
The way Air NZ advertises its specials as one way fares to a destination, and the return fare is invariably more expensive.
Thanks for explaining "plethora".
It means a lot.
floydbloke:The way Air NZ advertises its specials as one way fares to a destination, and the return fare is invariably more expensive.
floydbloke:
The way Air NZ advertises its specials as one way fares to a destination, and the return fare is invariably more expensive.
Airline pricing is quite weird and a lot of things come into play, such as departure taxes and seasonal changes from point of origin etc. For instance I have just booked my father for a return trip ex UK business class on Emirates. A return ticket was just over $7,000 which in itself is a fair price. However I got caught when I suggested that my god daughter accompany him as she is returning back to NZ after her OE. One way? Just over $6,000 ! Now here is the cruncher. If the same trip was from Auckland to the UK on the same dates, the one way business class fare would only be $3,800.
floydbloke:
The way Air NZ advertises its specials as one way fares to a destination, and the return fare is invariably more expensive.
Australian airport taxes! (Or is that not a small thing?)
Blue Sky: shadowfoot.bsky.social
DaveB:
floydbloke:
The way Air NZ advertises its specials as one way fares to a destination, and the return fare is invariably more expensive.
Airline pricing is quite weird and a lot of things come into play, such as departure taxes and seasonal changes from point of origin etc. For instance I have just booked my father for a return trip ex UK business class on Emirates. A return ticket was just over $7,000 which in itself is a fair price. However I got caught when I suggested that my god daughter accompany him as she is returning back to NZ after her OE. One way? Just over $6,000 ! Now here is the cruncher. If the same trip was from Auckland to the UK on the same dates, the one way business class fare would only be $3,800.
I've heard that strange effects like that can vary depending on where you booked from... would be interesting to see how that one way fare would look if booked from a UK vendor?
kryptonjohn:
DaveB:
Airline pricing is quite weird and a lot of things come into play, such as departure taxes and seasonal changes from point of origin etc. For instance I have just booked my father for a return trip ex UK business class on Emirates. A return ticket was just over $7,000 which in itself is a fair price. However I got caught when I suggested that my god daughter accompany him as she is returning back to NZ after her OE. One way? Just over $6,000 ! Now here is the cruncher. If the same trip was from Auckland to the UK on the same dates, the one way business class fare would only be $3,800.
I've heard that strange effects like that can vary depending on where you booked from... would be interesting to see how that one way fare would look if booked from a UK vendor?
UK quote through a reputable Travel Agent was:-
The Business Class Return Fare is £4262.78 including taxes
The Business Class One Way Fare is £3822.68 including taxes
Using today's exchange rate I think I saved about $600 by booking it here with my local Travel Agent. You could of course save a few $$$ by booking online, but I prefer to use an Agent to ensure the most convenient and efficient route and sign everything off on long distance travel. For instance, could you imagine a 9 hour layover for an 85 year old to save $500? Not worth it.
floydbloke:
The way Air NZ advertises its specials as one way fares to a destination, and the return fare is invariably more expensive.
Aside from taxes airlines tend to charge in exact amounts for both legs in local currency then convert so you may get a $119 NZ dollar leg to Australia and a $119 AUS dollar leg to New Zealand.
The other reason for one way legs is so you can fly into one city and out of another, ie Fly to Hong Kong and back from Shanghai etc
floydbloke:
The way Air NZ advertises its specials as one way fares to a destination, and the return fare is invariably more expensive.
Surely that's entirely normal and predictable?
During our summer, people want to come to NZ for holidays. So planes flying to NZ at the beginning of summer will be full, but they'll be part-empty flying back. Or at least they would be, if AirNZ didn't offer special low fares. Vice versa at the end of summer. Similarly for almost every flight.
So there will always be a cheap fare in one direction and an expensive fare in the opposite direction. And the cheap one will be the one that is advertised, because (a) that's the flight they're working to fill, and (b) it encourages people to fly somewhere.
So aim to fly out of NZ at the beginning of summer and return at the end of summer to get cheap fares in both directions.
frankv:
floydbloke:
The way Air NZ advertises its specials as one way fares to a destination, and the return fare is invariably more expensive.
Surely that's entirely normal and predictable?
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Agreed, it absolutely is. That doesn't mean that it doesn't annoy me.
Thanks for explaining "plethora".
It means a lot.
When I print something then walk over to the printer then realise there was one more "OK" button to press before it prints.
DaveB:
floydbloke:
The way Air NZ advertises its specials as one way fares to a destination, and the return fare is invariably more expensive.
Airline pricing is quite weird and a lot of things come into play, such as departure taxes and seasonal changes from point of origin etc. For instance I have just booked my father for a return trip ex UK business class on Emirates. A return ticket was just over $7,000 which in itself is a fair price. However I got caught when I suggested that my god daughter accompany him as she is returning back to NZ after her OE. One way? Just over $6,000 ! Now here is the cruncher. If the same trip was from Auckland to the UK on the same dates, the one way business class fare would only be $3,800.
I see this with my brother in the US. If he looks at pricing on the Air NZ US site and I look on the NZ site for seats on the same flight, the NZ one is usually way more than the US. To sit on the same plane, in the exact same seat!
Geektastic:
I see this with my brother in the US. If he looks at pricing on the Air NZ US site and I look on the NZ site for seats on the same flight, the NZ one is usually way more than the US. To sit on the same plane, in the exact same seat!
Apparently the thing to do is to browse airline sites from a proxy in some 3rd-world pauper country; Vietnam or Haiti or Zimbabwe or somewhere like that, I guess. But then you might get burnt converting NZ$ to dong to US$ when you go to actually buy the tickets?
But surely if you're searching via SkyScanner or similar, the airline can't tell where you're searching from anyway?
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