On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:41:41 +0900, "Ryan Ginstrom"
<ginstrom@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>
>"Ed" <gwbush@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message
>news:bepurk$b3o$1@cobalt01.janis.or.jp...
>>
>> "Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:beo33g$6v7iu$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> > It depends greatly on when you go and who you book with, and to some
>> extent
>> > where you fly from. I have seen tickets to LA in the 40,000 yen range,
>and
>> > of course smack dab in the middle of Obon you'd be crying tears of joy
>to
>> > get a ticket for 100,000 yen...
>>
>> I used to think the same thing until I did a little shopping around. None
>of
>> the travel agencies seem to be any cheaper or more expensive then the
>> others.
>
>I have heard it said that airline tickets are nearly a perfect market, since
>everybody pays exactly what they are prepared to pay. If you look hard
>enough for the cheaper fares, you'll find them.

I've heard it said that the most interesting thing about an airplane
ride is that you can look around at the other passengers and be sure
that none of you paid the same price.




--

Michael Cash



"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College


http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/