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![]() "C Kingsbury" wrote in message ink.net... "Martin Hotze" wrote in message ... who has less money? European consumers or the European airlines? Consumers in general. I don't think the disparity is enormous and in any case there's no question that a European with a decent job can enjoy a very nice quality of life. Also, assuming that an American family and European one would both budget say $2000 for a vacation, the European family will likely be trying to spread it across a longer trip. In the US the typical vacation trip is a week, occasionally ten days, once in a while two weeks. And that's pretty much it for the year. When I worked for Bertelsmann my German comrades would typically take three or four weeks off in the summer, and two or three in the winter. Likewise when I was in Thailand a few years back, most of the Europeans I ran into were there for at least a month. So you guys need to stretch your money a little further even if salaries were identical, which they are not. tickets from Europe to the US east cost (both ways) sell for about EUR 500.00 - and with the fall of the exchange rate it is now about 40% cheaper to spend holidays in the US than it was in 2002. So be friendly to those French .. they (and others) have the money to spend in the US-tourism industry. So long as they tip 15% in bars and restaraunts they will be quite welcome. providing those working in the bars and restaurants earn it. |
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