[governance] plane ticket hardships resulting from potential IGF date change (was: February 19-20...)

[Norbert Bollow]

William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a discussion in the MAG
> about the scheduling of the IGF meeting, and the possible
> consequences for the IGF in terms of attendance, political support,
> costs to participants, the planning process, etc. of it being
> unilaterally changed to mid-August.  If anyone is interested, the
> discussion is on the open MAG list,
> http://mail.intgovforum.org/pipermail/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org/

One aspect that apparently hasn't been brought up in that discussion is
that some folks who have tight budgets will have booked airtickets soon
after the Jan 10 UN press release that mentioned “the next meeting
of the Internet Governance Forum, which will be held in Istanbul,
Turkey, from 2 to 5 September.”
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2014/pi2078.doc.htm

The reason for booking as early as possible after city and dates have
been announced with apparent definitiveness is of course that this
avoids the risk of rising ticket prices closer to the event.

Maybe one of the civil society MAG members could ask the host country
whether if indeed the dates are moved for the reason that that allows
them to save a little money, would they in that case be willing to
reimburse those who because of that will have plane tickets that they
will have no use for.

Greetings,
Norbert

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