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From: Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: [GC]GenCon98
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 11:01:07 EST
In a message dated 97-12-07 06:14:55 EST, gurth@******.NL writes:

> > It just shows the inequity in winter and summer rates..odd isn't
> > it..when you would think they would want to fill as many planes as
> > possible they jack the prices beyond the regular person's normal
> > means..
>
> It depends on where you're going. I bet flights to Florida are just as
> expensive now as they are during the summer (that's also where I got my
> price estimate, BTW: looking at a travel brochure for winter flights to
> Florida a few months ago when I was in the dentist's waiting room :) OTOH
> few people would want to go to Milwaukee in winter, so prices drop. Why
> can't they hold GenCon in January? ;)
>
Probably because everyone would be too busy digging themselves out of their
hotels if the city was hit with one of it's famous "January Blizzards".
However, the snowball war that would break out around Gencon (a bunch of
rpgers and too much snow and nowhere to go??? HMMMM)....

-K

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