Expensive airfares?

[serenadust]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
 (Remember also that we're talking wimpy Australian dollars here: in 
USD I'm only paying about $1500!)  International airfares anywhere 
are expensive here, because of the distances involved (in fact, 
domestic airfares are  pretty high as well, especially compared with 
the US).  IIRC, it's a 24 hour flight to the UK and 18 hours to the 
US west coast.  Urk.  I imagine the other factor is population... 
you just can't have the sort of ultra cheap deals you get trans-
Atlantic and US-Asia because there aren't as many people or as many 
airlines competing.


If you're getting all these one-way routes in the US and Europe, 
plus at least 3 trans-oceanic crossings, I'd say you got a *great* 
deal.  It would cost me about $600 to go RT from Washington DC to 
London on one of the current *low* advertised fares, and anyone who 
has priced any one-way fares on the east coast here, knows that you 
can go round-trip for less (discarding the ticket for the 2nd leg of 
the journey).

By the way, the forth of July here in Washington DC is awsome, with 
all-day concerts and partying on the mall ending with spectacular 
fireworks over the Washington monument and the Potomac river.  If 
you've never been to DC, it's really worth a visit.

Jo Serenadust, envying your awesome-sounding trip