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It depends which "fees" you are talking about. This cost of air tickets includes "taxes", "fees" and "charges". Very often, a ticket will include more than one item in each category. Within each category, each item may be airline-dependent and/or cabin-dependent and/or airport-dependent and/or city-dependent and/or country-dependent and/or value-dependent (eg a percentage rather than a flat amount). So, as I said, the short answer is "it depends". I think that the only generic advice I can offer is that if you substantially change your routing (eg by flying to CDG rather than LHR) just to reduce the taxes, fees and/or charges that you have to pay, that's likely to be being penny-wise pound-foolish. It's usually not worth it - especially if you happen to have only very limited leisure time, in which case you really don't want to waste it by unnecessarily lengthening your journey.
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Are you sure you have the right one in mind? As far as I can see, the "Premier Inn London Waterloo (Westminster Bridge)" is next door to the "Park Plaza County Hall London" and the "Park Plaza London Westminster Bridge" (which are next door to each other). There is also the "Park Plaza London Waterloo", which is (naturally) further away from Waterloo station than those two Park Plazas.
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Short connection YVR to SEA with onward flights to Doha and Seychelles
Globaliser replied to Pirouette's topic in Cruise Air
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If you input US departure and international arrival (as the OP is travelling on to Tokyo), the AC website says that the minimum connection time is 60 minutes (matching the time formally published to the GDS). As the OP is connecting to Tokyo, there should be no need for them to clear any of the Canadian arrival process. That would be the normal expectation for an international-to-international connection. And the AC website also says: << Customs Maybe Connecting in Toronto or Vancouver? No Customs hassle! Connecting in Montréal? Customs checkpoint ahead. >> The AC website also has this page - https://www.aircanada.com/uk/en/aco/home/plan/check-in-information/minimum-connection-times.html#/ - which says: << From the U.S. to an international destination Connecting through Minimum Connection Time Calgary 60 min Halifax 45 min Montreal 50 min as of May 1 Ottawa 60 min Toronto 60 min Vancouver 60 min Example: If you're travelling from Detroit to Frankfurt with a connecting flight in Toronto, you'll need to provide for a minimum connection time of 1 hour between your arrival in Toronto and your departure for Frankfurt. >> All of this points to the 70 minute time you posted being relevant to an international-to-domestic connection, not to the international-to-international connection that the OP is doing.
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No, AC publishes 60 minutes; I've bolded what I think is the relevant line: Results from ExpertFlyer.com Minimum Connect Times: Connecting at YYZ Incoming airline AC Outgoing airline AC Flight type International to International STANDARD.D/D...D/I...I/D...I/I. ONLINE 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 OFFLINE 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 ** OR * ARE ALL AC-AC II 1.25 CDS N/A - UA TRM 1 - 1 AC-AC II 4.00 TRM 1 - 1 TLV - CUN 01JAN23 - INF AC-AC II 1.25 ALL - FLT 724 - 724 TRM 1 - 1 FRA - LGA AC-AC II 1.25 ALL - FLT 726 - 726 TRM 1 - 1 FRA - LGA AC-AC II 1.25 ALL - FLT 8998 - 8998 TRM 1 - 1 FRA - LGA AC-AC II 1.25 ALL - FLT 724 - 724 TRM 1 - 1 ICN - LGA AC-AC II 1.25 ALL - FLT 726 - 726 TRM 1 - 1 ICN - LGA AC-AC II 1.25 ALL - FLT 8998 - 8998 TRM 1 - 1 ICN - LGA AC-AC II 1.45 TRM 1 - 1 ALL - LGA AC-AC II SUP TRM 1 - 1 COUNTRY US - COUNTRY CU AC-AC II SUP TRM 1 - 1 COUNTRY CU - COUNTRY US AC-AC II 4.00 TRM 1 - 1 COUNTRY US - COUNTRY US AC-AC II 1.25 TRM 1 - 1 ALL - COUNTRY US AC-AC II 1.00 TRM 1 - 1 COUNTRY US - ALL AC-AC II 1.15 ALL - FLT 33 - 33 TRM 1 - 1 AC-AC II 1.00 TRM 1 - 1 ...
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That can't be right. The OP is being offered a 68 minute connection, which would be illegal if the MCT is 70 minutes. As far as I can see, the MCT for this connection is actually 60 minutes.
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Sufficient for what? And what do you want the connection time to be sufficient for? The problem with questions like this (which are asked by many CCers, so it's not just you) is that there is no single answer to them. What people actually want to know is "Will I make it to my next flight?". And the only real answer to that question is "Maybe", however long the connection time is. This looks like a legal connection - and as you are being offered it, it would be extraordinary if it isn't. So it's sufficient for most passengers to make it to their next flight, on most occasions. But some people will miss this connection, usually because something goes wrong on the day. This can't be predicted in advance; it's the luck of the draw. You can reduce your risks by picking a longer connection time. But there is no connection time that will guarantee that you (or your luggage) will make it to the next flight. Even if you leave two days between flights, you (or your luggage) could still miss the onward flight. How much risk are you prepared to take? Amongst other things, you want to think about how you'd deal with a misconnect, particularly if it leads to a 24-hour or 48-hour delay. Do you have several days in Tokyo before your cruise? Or are all the parts more time critical than that?
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From a visitor's point of view: I spent three weeks in Australia and New Zealand earlier this year (an entirely land-based trip, nothing to do with cruising or conventional touristy things), and did not use even one cent in cash in the entire time that I was there.
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That's not really the question. You need to ask yourself: are you bothered if you are searched, and your medication is seized because you haven't complied with the import requirements? I doubt that official communications (for example https://www.customs.govt.nz/personal/travel-to-and-from-nz/medicines/) give you inaccurate information just for fun. I have had my stuff searched, although not often. But I do often see others having their stuff searched.
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It's worth remembering that much of New Zealand's most beautiful scenery is simply not accessible to cruise ship passengers because it's too far away from ports. If this really is your top priority, I would suggest building some decent pre-cruise or post-cruise time (ideally at least a couple of weeks) in to your trip in order to see things that you simply can't see from a ship.
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There is no such thing in the UK - or, frankly, pretty much anywhere other than the US. London City is a great airport provided you do not arrive there too early. Getting to the terminal 45 minutes before scheduled departure time is plenty of time. The entire place is designed for you to turn up and fly. If you have enough time to sit down to wait after clearing security, go through the shops and ignore the seating in the central area there. Turn left and head into the corridor where the low-numbered gates are. There's plenty of much nicer seating in the gate areas along there.
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Taxi. It should not take more than 45 minutes, very possibly nearer 30 minutes. The taxi rank is signed from the concourse (after you exit the gate line). If I remember correctly, it's towards the lower-numbered platforms, ie to the right after you exit the gate line (with the trains behind you), but further away from the trains (in other words, just outside the building behind the shops), and it's on the same level as the concourse. (If it has moved, I hope someone else knows where it's gone.) And yes, all taxis must accept card payment. I can only guess at the likely cost (it'll be on the meter), but possibly £40-50.
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It was interesting to see that they really did have something specific already in mind when they changed the company name. The promise of being able to see an HBCU Marching Band perform at sea was intriguing. I've had occasional glancing contact with that part of the musical world over the last few years, and it's been both interesting and rewarding.
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I'm not sure what Southwest's boarding process has to do with whether it's a good idea for a customer to pay $200 more for a Southwest ticket than what they could get a ticket for from another mainstream airline. No airline's boarding process is worth paying an extra $200 for. But as you ask: Yes, of course I have flown Southwest. No, like almost every single Southwest customer, I don't fully understand Southwest's specific business model because I am not a Southwest insider. CCers will have to make up their own minds about whether I actually know anything about the general topic of airlines.
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A question in another thread reminded me of another problem with that article (which was there when it was written): it completely failed to mention the 15 bus. This was particularly strange as the header photo actually showed a 15 bus, albeit an old Routemaster which was probably operating the heritage route that ran along the part of the route of the 15 that would have been most interesting to tourists, between Tower Hill and Trafalgar Square, passing St Paul's. Transport for London has since discontinued that heritage route, but the good news is that a private company is now operating Routemasters along that route that it calls the T15. This is not part of the TfL bus system, so you have to pay separately for it, but it is a chance to still take an iconic Routemaster on a tourist-friendly route through the City of London. The 15 bus still runs, of course, but on modern buses not Routemasters. And that part of its route is equally tourist-friendly.
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I doubt that "shyster" is a fact; it's just your opinion. What you choose to think is entirely a matter for you. But what we like to do here is to make sure that other members don't get misled by fallacious reasoning, so that they're in a better position to make good and rational decisions. Pandering to consumers who want to pay less is neither more profitable nor good business. Making optimum levels of revenue and profit in the airline business is much more complicated than just cutting fares or charging less than the competition. But it's clear that failing to cut fares hurts those who desperately want to fly the more expensive airline. Speaking of which, have you yet bought those cheaper tickets on the other mainstream airline?
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Only SWA will know the precise reason for that precise price drop. But: It's entirely consistent with a pattern seen across many airlines in many regions of the world. I've also previously explained here a number of times how an airline can make a specific flight more profitable by deliberately charging higher fares, deliberately driving some passengers to competitor airlines, and deliberately operating the flight with some empty seats. You seem to have a deep-seated desire to fly SWA and nobody else. That's your prerogative. But if that's your choice, then it's SWA's business to extract as much money from you as you're prepared to pay. SWA does not owe it to you to offer you a bargain fare, or a fare that's cheaper than other airlines', or any kind of competitive pricing. Indeed, SWA does not owe it to you to offer you anything at all. The insults that you're hurling at the airline suggest that you're emotionally hurt by this, but it's just business in a commoditised industry in which no individual customer is of any importance to the company.
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It's almost exactly half way between Mansion House Tube and Blackfriars Tube, each about 400 yards away, so it's not bad for places that are on the District/Circle Lines (like the Tower and Westminster Abbey; Buckingham Palace is going to require a bit of a walk from any Tube station). It's also on the route of the 15 bus (and the T15 if you're interested in doing that, but note that that is not a TfL service), as well as a number of other bus routes.
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I suspect that they're interested in keeping the airline in business and out of bankruptcy. That is their job. Charging "great pricing" and "competitive fares" can be a good way of failing to do that, as demonstrated by no end of airlines throughout the history of the industry. Pandering to the customer's demands to pay less just results in financial losses. Never forget the simple truth eloquently described by Mr Micawber: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
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I think it's almost certain that you will be able to get both boarding passes before you depart Charlotte. In any event, even if for some reason you have to get your onward boarding pass at Dulles, there's a very good chance that you can do this without having to go landside. Although conventional check-in counters are (as CruiserBruce says) always before security, because many things in checked luggage aren't allowed through security, once you are airside there are plenty of places (at least at any big airport) that can issue boarding passes if that is all you need.
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I've just run one search for Austin to Buenos Aires for early January, which immediately returned one-stop options via Houston (United), Atlanta (Delta), Miami (American) and Dallas Fort Worth (American). It follows that you can get non-stops from Houston and Dallas (and Atlanta and Miami). So there must be something else constricting the search results that you're getting. If you tell us what you've been looking for and how you've been looking for it, we may be able to help debug what you're doing.
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Which sadly makes it very out of date. There have been major changes to bus routes since then, affecting many of the routes mentioned in this article. In particular: 11 No longer goes to Liverpool Street Station, but goes from Westminster to Waterloo and terminates - so it does not run past Covent Garden or through the City. 73 Terminates at Oxford Circus, no longer going anywhere near Buckingham Palace, Wellington Arch, Hyde Park or Marble Arch. 26 No longer crosses Waterloo Bridge or terminate at Waterloo, but goes around Parliament Square and along Victoria Street to Victoria Station. RV1 No longer exists.
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Janis Siegel! But for me the date swap has, unfortunately, changed TJC 2026 from "unlikely" to "impossible" as I have an irreconcilable date clash.