How the feck can it cost 60 million?

[RED-DOG]

Monarch rescue flights 'to cost £60m' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41477267

[Nakor]

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.

[RED-DOG]

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?

[tikay]

Sounds like the media plucking figures out of the air to me.

[RED-DOG]

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.

[The Camel]

Will that figure include hotels and expenses for stranded travellers?

And compensation for those affected too?

[tikay]

Works out at £554 per head, so I guess it's possible.

[MintTrav]

It's the extras.

Maybe they paid by credit card.

[Knottikay]

Sounds like the media plucking figures out of the air to me.

Very good....if meant

[tikay]

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.