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Re: Technic 99
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Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:28:46 GMT
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Gary Louie wrote:
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> Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote:
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> > 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?
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> 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:
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> 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
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> 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
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> The flight to Auckland, New Zealand actually arrives two days later on
> Sat 30 Jan!
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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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| (...) 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. (28 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| 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 (...) (28 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) 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 (...) (28 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) 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 (...) (28 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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