{"id":611,"date":"2007-02-07T13:14:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T13:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2022-08-23T10:56:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:56:29","slug":"no_london_trips_anytime_soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/no_london_trips_anytime_soon\/","title":{"rendered":"No London trips anytime soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re planning to fly to London on a mainline carrier and then hub out to other parts of Europe via low fare carriers, DON&#8217;T!!<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;brilliant&#8221; minds in the UK have DOUBLED the tax that you have to pay for inbound and outbound flights, unless you&#8217;re transiting through on the same ticket. If your final destination is London or anywhere in the UK, you&#8217;re gonna get reamed. So forget the UK!\u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: revert;\">Apparently Amsterdam (?) is the new low fare hub for Europe. Informative article about the new parasitic tax <\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/travel\/flights\/2007-02-01-england-flight-tax_x.htm\">here<\/a><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now what do I mean by &#8220;hub out&#8221;?\u00a0 To &#8220;hub out&#8221; means to fly a mainline airline to a city that&#8217;s a low fare airline hub. Using that city as a base, then continue flying elsewhere using low fare airlines. Example: I usually fly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singaporeair.com\">Singapore Airlines <\/a>(best flights I&#8217;ve ever had!) to Singapore and then will fly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetstarasia.com\">JetStar<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airasia.com\">AirAsia<\/a> to other destinations (usually KUL or BKK). It&#8217;s a good way to stretch your travel dollar and it&#8217;s fun too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re planning to fly to London on a mainline carrier and then hub out to other parts of Europe via low fare carriers, DON&#8217;T!! The &#8220;brilliant&#8221; minds in the UK have DOUBLED the tax that you have to pay for inbound and outbound flights, unless you&#8217;re transiting through on the same ticket. If your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/no_london_trips_anytime_soon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No London trips anytime soon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-travel-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-9R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}