OT: Just looked up a flight to Germany

[afx114]

Have you looked into flying out of TJ’s airport? I’ve done it a few times, and it is way cheaper. 5 minutes past the Otay crossing and you’re there. Plus the planes are nicer and the stewardesses are hot. The only bummer is crossing the border on the way home.

[briansd1]

[quote=afx114]Have you looked into flying out of TJ’s airport? I’ve done it a few times, and it is way cheaper. 5 minutes past the Otay crossing and you’re there. Plus the planes are nicer and the stewardesses are hot. The only bummer is crossing the border on the way home.[/quote]

What flights have you booked from TJ that are less expensive? I fly to Europe from the East Coast and to Asia through LAX or SFO.

I’m assuming that Latin American flights could be cheaper from TJ.

I agree that the FAs are much better looking on foreign airlines.

[Diego Mamani]

All of this wouldn’t really matter if our businesses quoted prices “out of the door” as they do in Europe. This is one my biggest personal peeves… Here in the good old US, when a hotel quotes you, say, $99 per room per night, you don’t really know what the total cost will be when you check out. They add sales tax, hotel tax, city fees, etc., etc., and hotels take advantage of this lack of transparency to tack on “resort fees” and other 100%-profit add-ons. Your total cost may be anywhere in the $115 to $150 range for a “$99 rate.”

In good old Europe, and most other regions, if a hotel quotes you 80 euros for the room, that’s exactly what you pay. When you see the bill in the morning, they may itemize the total into room rate, VAT, gratuity (services), resort fee, etc., etc., but I don’t really care because my total will be exactly the 80 euros I was quoted.

Why can’t we have that? As a country, we have institutionalized the practice of “hidden prices and fees.”

[Hatfield]

[quote=hslinger]I’d get a non-stop from San Diego to London (same dates)for $ 884.06 return on BA and then get a budget ticket on easy jet or ryanair to Frankfurt.

It wont be much more than your ticket and the nonstop across the Atlantic out of san diego can’t be beat.[/quote]

Plus you’d be clearing customs & immigration at SAN instead of LAX or some other hellish international arrivals terminal.

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