Flaps on take-off and landing

Mxsmanic,

That's very expensive.


Compared to what?

First, 800$, assuming 100 $ per hour, would take you 900 kilometers in
four hours travel time. If that's your kind of weekend trip, I'm sure
you can afford it.

Also, there are four people aboard, so you're talking about 200 per
person for a trip from, say, Paris, to Barcelona, Florence, Prague or
Majorca. Still expensive? I didn't think so.

For argument's sake, let's assume I lived in Paris (I really live in
Hamburg, not that far). A typical weekend flying trip would take me to
London, the Channel Islands or the Loire valley. Trips of less than two
hours, all. Or 400 $, for the whole plane. Try getting to the Channel
Islands in two hours from Paris by any other mode of transportation,
for 100 $ per person, on your own schedule.

Expensive? Bah, humbug, I say.

Oh, and as Mastercard so eloquently shows us, price is not all that
matters in life.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)