 |
 |
Home | About | Contact | Site Map | Links | Library | |||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
||||||||||||||||||
 |
Categorys |
|||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Cheap Business Class Fares: My children attended schools there and it was cheap business class fares at that time, dirt cheap business class fares, which explains why we could stay there. We saved a lot of money as against living at home. We could secure two double rooms, enough to shelter the four of us, for two dollars a day in small family hotels. We could secure good nourishing meals for twenty-five cents apiece. Metro fares were one cent. So I and my budget were spoiled.Economy Touring and Lodging You can do a lot for a little in Finland if you are the hardy type, and in a clean, well-ordered land like this it is not too rigorous a job to be thrifty. Rail traffic, in third class, costs not much over a cent a mile for long distances, and inland steamer tariffs are extremely moderate. Furthermore, the Finnish State Railways offer a surprising choice of 42 circular tours— 25 of them mapped out in an official booklet—at 20 per cent below standard fares, available from May 1 to Sept. 30; and in the off-season they offer general tariff reductions of 25 to 50 per cent on return fares.
Air lines, analyzing it in practical terms of full fare and thrift fare for transatlantic flights, consider that the seven months from April 1 to October 31 are "on season" months in their entirety, in both directions. The other five months, November through March 31, constitute the off season or thrift season. To benefit by the big reduction in thrift-season fares you must make both flights during that fall-winter period, but the saving is very impressive, averaging 10 to 15 per cent. This seasonal saving operates for both first class and tourist class, or combinations of the two. Going all the way by tourist class—Pan American's Rainbow tourist service was extended in the spring of 1954 around the world—as against going all the way by first class, can save you almost another 30 per cent. Assembling these possible savings, we find that it costs a good 40 per cent less to go all the way by tourist class off season than it does to go all the way by first class on season. A specific example, New York to London and back, as of today's tariffs, reveals that the lowest fare, as above, would cost you $425, whereas the highest would cost you $711. Try that on your arithmetic! |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||
