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Re: Technic 99
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Date: 
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:28:46 GMT
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Gary Louie wrote:

Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote:

D'you mean by plane?  Well, no, but I assume that it will be extremely
expensive, as you need to go almost to the other side of the earth.  Or
do you mean that it is hard to book a flight to get you from NZ to No
and that you need to do many intermediate stops?

I got curious and started to research this and started planning a
hypothetical trip from Auckland, New Zealand to Oslo, Norway on 14
January, with a return on 28 January.  This is what I found:

Thu 14 Jan Auckland    22:35 Air New Zealand    2 13:45 Los Angeles
Thu 14 Jan Los Angeles 14:45 Air New Zealand    2 09:20 London
Fri 15 Jan London      10:35 British Airways  320 13:40 Oslo

Thu 28 Jan Oslo        19:50 Scandinavian    1511 21:00 London
Thu 28 Jan London      22:15 Singapore        321 18:55 Singapore
Fri 29 Jan Singapore   20:45 Air New Zealand 4285 11:15 Auckland

The flight to Auckland, New Zealand actually arrives two days later on
Sat 30 Jan!

The routing is actually AKL (Auckland), LAX (Los Angeles International),
LHR (London Heathrow), Oslo (OSL), LHR (London Heathrow), SIN
(Singapore), and AKL (Auckland).  Ignoring great circle routes, this is
probably an around the world routing.  Not having a globe handy, I think
the travel is always eastward.

Of course, if Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> is no where
near Oslo, or if "Moz (Chris Moseley)" <moz1@ihug.co.nz> is closer to
Wellington, everything changes!

The trip would cost Moz NZ$5432 or US$2858 (discounted coach fare).  And
would accrue 24,863 frequent flyer miles!

The above is clearly the work of a man with too much Web access.


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Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Technic 99
 
(...) Or a secretary worth his/her weight in Airport Shuttles. From Tom McDonald Anti-spam block in place. (URL) what you can, but behave yourself. We'll have more, right after this. (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
  Re: Technic 99
 
Also sprach Larry Pieniazek: : The above is clearly the work of a man with too much Web access. What do you mean 'too much'? That isn't possible, is it? Jim (I want all the bandwidth:) / _ _ / _ _ Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
  Re: Technic 99
 
(...) I work for an airline, and could do the LHR-AKL section of the above itinerary on my firm's flights, for the knock-down price of $0.00! (An award ticket for not being sick. Or being masochistic, going into work when I should have stayed in (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)

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  Re: Technic 99
 
(...) I got curious and started to research this and started planning a hypothetical trip from Auckland, New Zealand to Oslo, Norway on 14 January, with a return on 28 January. This is what I found: Thu 14 Jan Auckland 22:35 Air New Zealand 2 13:45 (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)

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