Comments on: The Canaries make me weep

By: Bart Vanhauwaert

Bart Vanhauwaert — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:34:24 +0000

@Mauricio : that is due to a special tax that the Netherlands has (they will abondon it on July 1st) of 45 euro per single international fare for flights originating or ending there. The tax is not applied for stopover flights. While tax was meant to discourage flying, it had the perverse effect of many Dutch people booking extra flights. For example at one point AMS->CPT was 100 euro more expensive than BXL->AMS->CPT with the same company… So all Dutch people drove (by car) to Brussels, took a flight there back to Amsterdam (35 minutes in the air) to connect onwards to Kaapstad.

By: Darkstar

Darkstar — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:51:05 +0000

Nitpicker’s comment: The radius is not *around* Saturn, it’s *halfway through* Saturn
19000km is actually about 1/20th of the circumference *around* Saturn.

-Darkstar

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:11:49 +0000

too bad there is no hub in Africa

By: KDE user from Poland

KDE user from Poland — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:07:16 +0000

jet lag guarantee be brave man!

By: David Johnson

David Johnson — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:34:53 +0000

Deep vein thrombosis!

By: peterzl

peterzl — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:55:42 +0000

well, it is yet fucking far from Hong Kong.

By: Ian Monroe

Ian Monroe — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:54:36 +0000

Looking at your map… just imagine Seb if you didn’t happen to live in whats probably the major hub airport of Australia. Another connecting flight!

But yea you really got the shaft. It seems odd that you have to do a connection just to get to one of the dozen-or-so cities that fly to the Canaries. Thats probably just bad luck.

But like I said in the previous message a connection in Europe is *required*, even if you live in the Sahara I bet.

By: Ian Monroe

Ian Monroe — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:45:27 +0000

I completely agree. This is first time I’ve had to make a connection in Europe to get somewhere. Usually its go to my local airport -> fly to an American hub airport -> fly to destination in Europe. Looking at past Akademy locations, I bet I could’ve done this with every single one of them. But this year its local airport -> American hub -> European hub (Madrid) -> destination (Las Palmas).

The deal is that the Canaries are the “local beach spot” of Europe, so there are no transatlantic flights to it (or at least, not enough to show up in my booking) since N. America has its own local beach spots (Florida and Mexico). So I also have to add a connecting flight, so the total travel time will take about 21 hours. It also adds about >$300 to the cost of the ticket.

By: Megatroll

Megatroll — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:17:07 +0000

Everywhere it’s fucking far from Australia

By: Mike Lothian

Mike Lothian — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:56:26 +0000

I’m just back from Gran Canaria. I live in Scotland which is a 4 hour flight away. The weather is amazing and the night life is great. The flight only cost £200 return which is now 200 euro or about $1,000,000 US

It’s also the gay capital of Europe – or Playa del Ingles is rather

Considering the venue changes every year I really don’t think anyone should complain least swear

Mike