<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>For those who want to book well in advance for conference travel, the evidence (empirical, to be sure) I have from booking conference tickets over the past several years is that this article is right, 80..90 days before is when tickets are the cheapest.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/when-is-the-optimal-time-to-book-a-flight/">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/when-is-the-optimal-time-to-book-a-flight/</a><br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 30-Jan-2014, at 21:27, Chantal Lebrument <<a href="mailto:chlebrum@gmail.com">chlebrum@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>+1</span><br><span>I did too.. for Sharm El Sheikh meeting and I lost a lot of money</span><br><span></span><br><span>Envoyé de mon iPhone</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Le 30 janv. 2014 à 15:54, Norbert Bollow <<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch">nb@bollow.ch</a>> a écrit :</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Adam Peake <<a href="mailto:ajp@glocom.ac.jp">ajp@glocom.ac.jp</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I doubt anyone would buy a fixed ticket 9 months in advance.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I did.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The risk assessment must weigh the risk of losing the money paid for</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the ticket (if it can't be used because date or location is changed</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>irresponsibly) against the risk of the the price of the ticket</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>potentially increasing very significantly closer to the date.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Not after last year.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I'd expect any reasonable organization to make sure that when that</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>kind of problem has occurred, the necessary lessons will be learned and</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>applied.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Can we talk about real issues.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>It is a real issue.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Please.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Declaring a problem to be a non-issue does nothing to improve the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>situation.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Greetings,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Norbert</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>____________________________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To be removed from the list, 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