Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiations involved in long-distance trips can be of a delicacy worthy of a Geneva disarmament conference. A round-the-world trip from Miami, for example, theoretically costs $2,099, but a ticket for the same route can be bought in London for (pounds)998 ($1,254). "The trick," says Serge d'Adesky of Getaway Travel in Coral Gables, Fla., "is to maximize the effect of the strong dollar by purchasing a London-originated round-the-world fare and buying a Miami-London ticket on a carrier like People Express for $258. You will then have a saving of more...
...other carriers, which are also raising prices about 10% on their regular fares at the end of April, maintain much higher basic rates. Sample round-trip fares from New York: London, $639; Paris, $679; Rome, $799; Frankfurt, $734; Tel Aviv, $799; Tokyo, $1,305; Peking, $1,544. But then come all the different kinds of discounting: midweek flights are cheaper; so is APEX (Advance- Purchase Excursion rate, a round-trip ticket bought at least two to three weeks in advance). And then come discounts on discounts: if, for example, you cannot buy an APEX ticket 21 days in advance...
...pressure of competition has an effect. British Airways and TWA are fighting People Express by selling $199 standby fares to London. Pan American last week offered special discounts just to mollify travel agents and passengers inconvenienced by its recent strike. It granted $25 discounts on all round-trip tickets bought through any agency for travel on or before May 31, plus $100 coupons for any flight after...
These various deals have narrowed the price gap between scheduled airlines and charter carriers. Last year five major charters went into default, but the five survivors expect a 20% increase in business this year over 1984. Sample round-trip charter rates from New York: London, $512; Paris, $507; Rome, $607. Standby fares are $100 less...
...London is everything I wanted it to be," says Bonnie Graham, a Temple University attorney, who is making her first trip to Britain. "I love it. I love it. It's beautiful. It's wonderful. It's perfect." "It's great, it's just great. We're not sleeping at all," says Carol Arend, a French teacher from Clarkston, Mich., as she sips a drink on the Boulevard du Montparnasse. In the four days since she arrived with a group of 35 students and teachers, she has done Chartres, the Loire valley chateaux, a champagne cellar near Reims...