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Title: How the feck can it cost 60 million? Post by: RED-DOG on October 02, 2017, 07:47:38 PM Monarch rescue flights 'to cost £60m' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41477267 Title: Re: How the feck can it cost 60 million? Post by: Nakor on October 02, 2017, 07:54:41 PM Insurance? Would cost X to charter a plane to Athens but charged x+10 as its for "insurance work". Same for landing crew, runway slot etc etc.
Price ends up significantly higher then the actual cost. Title: Re: How the feck can it cost 60 million? Post by: RED-DOG on October 02, 2017, 08:19:40 PM Insurance? Would cost X to charter a plane to Athens but charged x+10 as its for "insurance work". Same for landing crew, runway slot etc etc. Price ends up significantly higher then the actual cost. How/why does insurance work = a +10 mark up? Title: Re: How the feck can it cost 60 million? Post by: tikay on October 02, 2017, 08:27:49 PM Sounds like the media plucking figures out of the air to me. Title: Re: How the feck can it cost 60 million? Post by: RED-DOG on October 02, 2017, 08:32:30 PM Insurance? Would cost X to charter a plane to Athens but charged x+10 as its for "insurance work". Same for landing crew, runway slot etc etc. Price ends up significantly higher then the actual cost. How/why does insurance work = a +10 mark up? I've got to start cooey wooeying up my posts, sometimes they read like I'm looking for an argument. Soz Nak. Title: Re: How the feck can it cost 60 million? Post by: The Camel on October 02, 2017, 08:46:15 PM Will that figure include hotels and expenses for stranded travellers?
And compensation for those affected too? Title: Re: How the feck can it cost 60 million? Post by: tikay on October 02, 2017, 08:53:22 PM Works out at £554 per head, so I guess it's possible. Title: Re: How the feck can it cost 60 million? Post by: MintTrav on October 02, 2017, 09:55:44 PM It's the extras.
Maybe they paid by credit card. Title: Re: How the feck can it cost 60 million? Post by: Knottikay on October 03, 2017, 12:37:30 PM Sounds like the media plucking figures out of the air to me. Very good....if meant ;) Title: Re: How the feck can it cost 60 million? Post by: tikay on October 03, 2017, 12:58:54 PM Sounds like the media plucking figures out of the air to me. Very good....if meant ;) Hi Alan, Not sure I can take the dubious credit for that. When I typed it, I immediately realised there was an unintentional bad pun there, but my imagination cells were AWOL that day, & at the time I could not think of better phrasing. |