{"id":12733,"date":"2010-07-18T19:21:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T17:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12733"},"modified":"2010-08-03T12:10:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T10:10:05","slug":"whats-wrong-with-airlines-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/18\/whats-wrong-with-airlines-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s wrong with airlines today?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I think there is something wrong with airlines, their policies, and their price making. \u00a0Here is one example. \u00a0I was looking for the cheapest way to get from Larnaca, Cyprus to Athens, Greece on Saturday, September 25th, 2010. \u00a0One of the lowest prices was offered by Aegean Airlines<\/a> – 42 EUR for a one-way ticket. \u00a0That sounds awesome, doesn’t it? \u00a0Well, apparently that’s not the final price. \u00a0The final price with all the taxes and such came up to 156.16 EUR<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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What’s the point of listing the price, on top of which you’ll have to pay the “tax” and “fee”, and which will be almost doubled by those extras?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I think there is something wrong with airlines, their policies, and their price making. \u00a0Here is one example. \u00a0I was looking for the cheapest way to get from Larnaca, Cyprus to Athens, Greece on Saturday, September 25th, 2010. \u00a0One of the lowest prices was offered by Aegean Airlines – 42 EUR for a one-way ticket. … Continue reading What’s wrong with airlines today?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22,2391,2],"tags":[2362,479],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","category-larnaca","category-personal","tag-airlines","tag-tourism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155806,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2023\/07\/19\/lavrion-corfu-sailing-day-0-cyprus-to-greece\/","url_meta":{"origin":12733,"position":0},"title":"Lavrion – Corfu sailing: Day 0 – Cyprus to Greece","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 19, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, is the start of the new adventure. 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