So, just bought a quick trip back to the home town. Mother reaches another age milestone etc.
True, there are two legs to the flight. But one of them was €17. I’ll pay more than that for the (round trip) from airport to destination on the bus. I’ll pay more than that in derv from home to the airport at this end. Would, if I used the motorway, pay more than that in tolls on it.
This is one of those wonders of this age. At which point there are those campaigning against it and demanding that this be stopped, right now.
Fuck ’em.
But, please, someone else has to the Swedish bird.
It’s like the BLM scam. Being weird and censorious has made her family millions. Which has always been the aim…
The proles being allowed to do what they want is the problem – it must be stopped.
What’s the point of being educated (in some useless non-STEM subject) if you can’t tell other people what to do?
It’s wonderful when you have a half-full flight.
Empty seats are worth zero to the airline when the hatch closes after all. But they still have to pay for the landing slot.
You can tell the real believers in man made climate change – they don’t use fossil fuels.
Anyone who says it is a problem and we have to have some efficient mechanism to deal with the externalities of using fossil fuels, but then gets on a jet* is a ……….?
*Don’t forget Spud and the funeral either…………
“You can tell the real believers in man made climate change – they don’t use fossil fuels.”
Which is why I tell the climate obsessed to be like the Vegans. Vegans have a moral objection to eating animal products so they don’t. If someone has a moral objection to the use of fossil fuels then they should follow suit and give them up. It will mean giving up quite literally everything including food, clothing and a house but hey, the future of the planet is at stake here.
The coach bit from here is rarely more expensive than the flight, so you got some lucky combination.
But it’s about what M says. You take £1 profit instead of £0. National Express take the same attitude. Saturday morning in August, it’s about £40 each way to Heathrow. They can sell every seat. Sunday morning in February, it’s about £6.
And hotels too. Like I’m looking at a gig in Cardiff, Saturday night in late December. Demand is basically zero, so Travelodge/Premier Inn are about £45.
The only people who don’t manage this are trains, because greed pig capitalists aren’t in charge. A lot of them are running empty. 10pm trains out of London, you can have a carriage to yourself. And I know they only run them to get the train out to Swansea, but why not make a bit more dosh on them? Charge £7 at that time instead of £25. Get the odd person who has flexibility on time and sees that it would be cheaper than driving, instead of “£50 for 80 miles to London? Fuck that”.
It’s why trains are worse for the environment per passenger than coaches, despite what the rail nerds say. Trains have the potential to be greener. A full train is greener, but they’re rarely full. A few hours each day. The rest of the time they’re somewhere between half empty and 90% empty.
It’s almost a coincidence!
I will be in Bath on 29th for a pub lunch at the Pig & Fiddle for a family get together for my mum’s 86th birthday. Not a milestone as such but at that age every birthday has the significance that it’s more likely to be the last.
I’ll be travelling by train. Probably cost as much as the airfare.
Sweden’s ugliest child actress has stopped raging about my car recently, now she’s raging against Jews.
The flight is off-peak; whereas the bus, road toll, and diesel don’t have peak prices.
Mind you, even a peak fare to southern Europe is pretty cheap.
Steve. Heh, heh. True. When you see her picture the notion that she must be Swedish doesn’t immediately pop into your head. A lesson there about stereotyping.
The Swedish creature reminds me of childhood. Minnie the Minx!
TD – she reminds me of the midget in DON’T LOOK NOW.
PiP – She’s Dhimmi the Jinx now. Somebody get her an Israeli pager.