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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/when-is-the-optimal-time-to-book-a-flight/

--srs (iPad)

> On 30-Jan-2014, at 21:27, Chantal Lebrument <chlebrum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +1
> I did too.. for Sharm El Sheikh meeting and I lost a lot of money
> 
> Envoyé de mon iPhone
> 
>> Le 30 janv. 2014 à 15:54, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> a écrit :
>> 
>> Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>> 
>>> I doubt anyone would buy a fixed ticket 9 months in advance.
>> 
>> I did.
>> 
>> The risk assessment must weigh the risk of losing the money paid for
>> the ticket (if it can't be used because date or location is changed
>> irresponsibly) against the risk of the the price of the ticket
>> potentially increasing very significantly closer to the date.
>> 
>>> Not after last year.
>> 
>> I'd expect any reasonable organization to make sure that when that
>> kind of problem has occurred, the necessary lessons will be learned and
>> applied.
>> 
>>> Can we talk about real issues.
>> 
>> It is a real issue.
>> 
>> Please.
>> 
>> Declaring a problem to be a non-issue does nothing to improve the
>> situation.
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> Norbert
>> 
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