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Kalimantan Gull

Kalimantan Gull

Well-known member
Aug 13, 2003
12,923
Central Borneo / the Lizard
Oh, sad :(

I always used them. Until Skyscanner turned up and you could save a tenner by booking through some random firm that I'd never heard of before or since.

Everything moves on, everything has its day on the sun. Used to enjoy going into a store to find out all the flight options direct from a sales person, wondering where we might be transiting this time, but those days are long gone.
 










VAL1850

VAL1850

Well-known member
Nov 22, 2008
1,921
Beachy Head & WSU
Fond memories of STA booked round the world flight £850 in 1989. London-Toronto, LA- Honolulu- Fiji- Auckland- Sydney. Darwin-Denpassar. Jakarta-Singapore. Bangkok-Delhi-Cairo-Athens-London. 18 months happy days...
 


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Kinky Gerbil

Im The Scatman
NSC Patron
Jul 16, 2003
57,887
hassocks
Which ever airline/agents survive this will be loving life.

Be able to charge what ever they like.

Like the arts/night life/self employed - zero help from the gov

Britain is open for business, but good luck getting here.
 


Cheshire Cat

Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..
Nov 4, 2006
11,436
Sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off...
I still can't understand why people are still booking travel, given the risk of imminent lockdown and quarantines with no warning. Just wait till Spain has a spike and watch the exodus.
 




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Bodian

Well-known member
May 3, 2012
11,801
Cumbria
Was STA the one on Queens Road in the 1990s? I remember going in there and saying 'we'd like somewhere cheap but interesting for a month' - 'howabout Prague Sirs, it's £x flights, cheap food and beer - and easy to find places to stay in the country' - 'Okay, that sounds great, we'll book it........where's Prague then?'
 




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Hove / Παρος
Apr 7, 2006
6,540
Hove / Παρος
Bodian said:
Was STA the one on Queens Road in the 1990s? I remember going in there and saying 'we'd like somewhere cheap but interesting for a month' - 'howabout Prague Sirs, it's £x flights, cheap food and beer - and easy to find places to stay in the country' - 'Okay, that sounds great, we'll book it........where's Prague then?'
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I believe so, not far from the old Albion shop if I remember correctly
 




The Lemming Stomper

The Lemming Stomper

790
Apr 1, 2007
2,488
Saltdean
Bodian said:
Was STA the one on Queens Road in the 1990s? I remember going in there and saying 'we'd like somewhere cheap but interesting for a month' - 'howabout Prague Sirs, it's £x flights, cheap food and beer - and easy to find places to stay in the country' - 'Okay, that sounds great, we'll book it........where's Prague then?'
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Wasn't that AOSSA travel, on the right walking down from the station...

The Scandi girl was there for years,,,Very nice
 




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Shropshire Seagull

Well-known member
Nov 5, 2004
8,496
Telford
Kinky Gerbils said:
Which ever airline/agents survive this will be loving life.

Be able to charge what ever they like.
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That's not exactly how supply and demand economics works - survivors can only charge what they like in an oligopoly / monopoly market and then only if demand remains so high that it outstrips supply.
Whilst this situation may arise, it doesn't prevent new cut-price entrepreneurs entering the market - are you old enough to remember Freddie Laker?
Market forces will eventually settle down and in will be business [and prices] as usual in a couple of years time.
 




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