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Flying Internationally On Chartered Planes
f you're a budget flight left at 2:00 in the
traveler, chartered planes afternoon, but the ticket window
will cross your travel wasn't open at noon. An hour
planning path at some point in later, a very long line of
time. The quality of charter passengers were starting to
flights can be both good and bad. grumble about being ripped off
since the ticket window still
hadn't opened. A riot was ready
During certain times of the year, to break out when a tired looking
flying to a particular location man came out and opened the
can be very expensive. One way to window at 1:45. In response to
beat the expense is to book a shouts asking how we were
seat on a charter flight. I did supposed to all board the plane
this very thing once, booking a in 15 minutes, he kindly let us
round trip ticket to Europe know the flight was delayed by
during the high season. The seat three hours.
set me back $400, a savings of
about $350 at the time. Bad Point Number One: Customer
Service Stinks on Chartered
The chartered flight had good and Flights.
bad points. I don't want to get
sued, so I'll leave out the name Once on the plane, I was
of the company in the following. extremely fortunate to be located
one row in front of the toilets
Bad Points and directly in front of an
emergency exit. Because of the
I was flying out of Los Angeles emergency exit, my seat did not
and into Paris on an unnamed recline! Admittedly, this was
charter flight. The fun started more bad luck than anything to do
upon arriving at the airport. The with the charter company. The
smell of the lavatories, however, afford first class tickets will
was very strong. The flight was take a charter flight. In fact,
11 hours, most of which I spent the first class section may be
cursing myself for being cheap. close to empty. When you check
in, make sure to ask if you can
Bad Point Number Two: You Get upgrade to first class for the
What You Pay For. flight. If you can, it is usually
very cheap to do so. On my return
Good Points flight from Paris to Los Angeles,
I upgraded for a whopping $50 and
There is one very good point when immediately became a travel snob.
it comes to flying charter. While "You call this water?! I demand
the initial booking is cheap, 1949 Perrier! And a lobster! And
most travelers fail to take full I want to fly the plane!
advantage of the nature of a
charter flight. Charter flights definitely are a
cheap way to fly. Just keep in
Charter flights have first class mind you get what you pay for.
seating. Not many people who can
About the Author:
Rick Chapo is with http://www.nomadjournals.com - makers of travel journals. Writing journals are the perfect travel accessories. Visit http://www.nomadjournaltrips.com to read more travel articles and travelogues.
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