Re: So, where to repeat? (was: Re: management granularity)

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@bbiw.net> Wed, 08 August 2012 03:01 UTC

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On 8/7/2012 7:55 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
>
> You said about Prague:
>
> "...[do] folks who live outside of that region not care about the
> additional hop of travel to get to it?"
>
> This gets cited often, and I don't really understand why. There are
> VERY few European cities that are reachable directly from the US (or
> Asia for that matter). Most require transiting some kind of major hub
> (London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam to name a few).

So, those hubs are reachable directly from the US and Asia, aren't they?


> If we restrict European cities to the ones with direct flight
> connections from other continents, we're really limiting the choices.

Yup.


> I do understand that the extra hop does add some cost,

Something like an extra US$200 or so, if I remember my research of a 
couple of years ago.  And a round-trip extra cost in time of 1/2-1 day...


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  Dave Crocker
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