Friday, August 31, 2012

(Why the reference to Canadian Corner ? Do you remember the TV series SCTV ? It was made in Canada -




It s bigger than it looks because not all Canadian visitors come here on flights from Canada. Thousands have evaded steep Canadian airport taxes by driving down to Seattle to fly here. In recent years Alaska Airlines has developed more of this trade by flying here from Bellingham, a city between Vancouver and Seattle with cheaper costa rica vacation rentals long-term parking. Allegiant Air plans to fly here from Bellingham, too, starting in November.
It s still growing because WestJet, the Canadian discount carrier, which already costa rica vacation rentals flies more Canadians to Hawaii than Air Canada does, has announced plans for winter service from both Edmonton and Calgary to both Honolulu and Kahului.
(Why the reference to Canadian Corner ? Do you remember the TV series SCTV ? It was made in Canada - in Edmonton, in fact, for a long time - and Canadian broadcast regulations at the time required that two minutes of every hour be Canadian content. The show was already on the air when some regulators paid a visit to tell them about it. Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis jokingly replied, What do you mean, Canadian content? We spend two minutes talking about beer and back bacon? And, according to Thomas s later account, one of the officials said, Well, yeah. That would qualify. And a running feature called Canadian Corner was born.)
I couldnt pass up the $214 one way ticket to Vancouver on Air Canada last month. Had to visit my mom in Oregon so I took the slow route I guess. Anyways while there I rode the Vancouver subway system often, which is called the Skytrain. Allegiant Air banners are plastered all over the Skytrain promoting the upcoming Bellingham-Hawaii air routes!!
costa rica vacation rentals Be forewarned costa rica vacation rentals though that Allegiant costa rica vacation rentals charges for carry on bags, I had to do this last week on a flight between Eugene, OR and Oakland. And the price of your ticket on Allegiant does not include the seat, so while it initially looks like a cheap fair it goes up quite a bit after you have to pay for your seat and possible both carry on and suitcase luggage. My ticket costa rica vacation rentals went from about $35 to $99 total because of these extra added fees. Airlines did the right thing by showing costa rica vacation rentals you cost of a total ticket including all taxes, take off and landing fees, etc. but they dont naturally include other items like I mentioned above.

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