Sunday, October 28, 2012

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I'm a big fan of budget airlines. As I stated before, Low-Cost Carriers - as they are also known - democratized travel and made backpacking within reach to thousands of budding travelers. But, taking casita travel trailers a budget airline can have its disadvantages.
You get what you pay for. Sure, the fares are cheap; where else can you book a flight casita travel trailers to a foreign destination for as little as $40? But there is a caveat to this - you pay for everything else. You want a choice window seat? pay a few more dollars. Want refreshments on board? Pay up. You don't get caviar h'ordeuvres seating in the Y-class of a budget airline.
The ungodly hours. To save money most budget carriers operate red eye flights - they depart late at night and arrive at the destination at the wee hours in the morning - to take advantage of cheaper airport fees. That means most public transportation casita travel trailers no longer operate when you arrive at your destination, so that the money you save from cheaper tickets might be gone because you have to take a cab going to your hostel. Or you may have to sleep in the airport itself and wait for dawn.
Inflexible ticket options. Budget airlines often have no option for changing your itinerary. Missing a flight means booking a new (and often more expensive) ticket. Tickets bought on sale, most likely casita travel trailers than not, can't be changed or they charge you with re-booking fees that are just as expensive as booking a new flight.
Indifferent Staff. Again to save money, budget airlines often train their staff to multi-task. Flight attendants might also have to man the boarding gates, casita travel trailers clean the interior, go around the plane selling you souvenir items, serve you a beverage that cost as much as 3x compared to if bought in 7-11, and try to fit in an over-sized luggage that somebody insists can be a carry-on. It would be no surprise that the staff is overworked, and can be indifferent to the passengers.
No inflight entertainment. Unless you brought your iPad with you, entertaining yourself on a four-hour flight would only be limited to eavesdropping casita travel trailers on the heated conversation between the FA and that annoying passenger who doesn't know the meaning of "low-cost carrier"
Being nickle-and-dimed. Budget airlines operate on razon-thin profit margins (so I'm told) so they take every opportunity to earn money. They charge all these creatively-named fees on unsuspecting passengers casita travel trailers to earn more: Convenience fee. Web check in fee. Fuel surcharges. Currency conversion fee. and the list goes on. One budget airline is even considering fees for using the toilet.
That feeling of being like in a bus. A crowded casita travel trailers bus with seats made for children. In rush hour. With colicky babies casita travel trailers bawling behind you. And you just try to zone out the claustrophobic feeling by upping your iPod's volume so that you won't go postal on the annoying guy beside you who's hogging the arm rest. Yeah, that feeling.
With these, why are budget casita travel trailers airlines still popular? It is inherent to the travelers to have a bit of masochism in them to endure all these? casita travel trailers Is price solely the determining factor in booking a flight, that a small indignity gets trumped casita travel trailers by the half-priced fare? Or have we, travelers, already developed a Zen-like detachment to every bit of discomfort that we encounter when we travel?

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