/ 1:25 pm

Comparison of fares from Singapore to London:

After a series of monthly checks since Jan 08, i must comment the taxes & fuel surcharge have went up tremendously, who would have imagined the fares can be so high? But as what i have mentioned to some, this is the future of flying, costs are gonna be high. What irks me is that some people whom i have seen at the travel fair claims that last year it was only 1.2k after taxes to London; what i will reply is last year is last year, lets face reality, do your maths, calculate the price of a gallon of oil for your flight and divide it by the number of passengers, do you think its reasonable?

Lets face the fact, for such 12-18h long journey to London, the fuel cost alone for a flight would run up to as many as US$60k, a "bad" airline will past the cost to the consumers leading to very ex surcharge, but while a "good" airline will know how to cope with high fuel costs by hedging against price rises and maintaining cost efficiencies. Their yield management just says it all - efficient. Airlines like Cathay Pacific have limitations in increasing fuel surcharge due to govt regulations, so lets be glad. Apparently, they are covering the extra cost that they cannot pass to consumers, leading to fare increase wef 01 sep 08. Some airlines like Emirates & Sri Lanka Airways include their fuel surcharge into the airfare nett price, thats gd, but that also means that their airfare will be expensive than the rest since it includes fuel surcharge (YQ).

what makes up an airfare:
airfare nett + tax (airport, security, terrorist), surcharges (navigation, insurance, new plane surcharge), fuel surcharge = total cost.

Fuel surcharge will defintely more or less takes up the bulk of the total cost

why taxes go up & down?
currency fluctuations. fuel costs & external airport tax are in us dollars or others, there is a rate of exchange IATA provides, hence the fluctuations.

How? Lets anaylze:

*All prices shown are in SGP dollars, cheapest economy fare & promo NATAS fares
* Prices & fuel surcharge based on 03 aug 08
* Prices are nett, exclude travel agent services fee if any
* List is not exhaustive, every airline has a whole long list of booking classes just for economy alone, chances are that during peak periods, all the lowest fares are fully booked, leaving you with the 3k+ tkt. its common.
*Fares are based on airfare (A) + taxes & fuel surcharge (B). e.g. 850 (A) + 1058 (B) = cost
* v class 6d/1m tkt = "V" booking class, min stay: 6d, max stay: 1mth

AF - Air France (via Paris CDG):
> 850 + 1058 = 1908 *Natas promo, v class 6d/1m tkt
> 1160 + 1058 = 2218 *Normal tkt lowest price, L class, 6d/1m tkt

BA - British Airways/Qantas (direct)
> 998 + 769 = 1767 *Natas promo, n class, -/12mth tkt
> 1048 + 769 = 1817 *Normal tkt lowest fare, V class, /-12m tkt

CX - Cathay Pacific (via HK)
> 1628 + 609 = 2237 *Normal lowest fare, v class , /-6m tkt

EK - Emirates (via Dubai)
> 1288 + 185 = 1473 *Natas promo, B class, 3d/30d tkt, sin-dxb on ek352, 353 only
> 1499 + 185 = 1684 *same as above, m class
> 1799 + 185 = 1984 *The hidden min 2 to go fare, not many know its existence
> 2012 + 185 = 2197 * The lowest fare for normal price tkt, W class, 3d/30d tkt

EY - Etihad (via Abu Dhabi)
> 1250 + 465 = 1715 *Normal fare, Q class, -/3m tkt

JL - Japan Airlines (via Tokyo Narita)
> no point seeing the airfare, taxes is at sgd1393 alone.

MH - Malaysian Airlines (via Kuala lumpur)
>930 + 869 = 1799 *Natas promo, L class, flight restrictions, 30d tkt
>1170 + 869 = 2039 *Normal lowest far, S class, /-6m tkt

KL - KLM Royal Dutch (via Amsterdam schipol)
> 850 + 1013 = 1863 *Natas promo, v class, 7d/1m tkt
> 950 + 1013 = 1963 * Normal lowest fare tkt,v class, 7d/1m tkt

LH - Lufthansa Airlines (via Frankfurt/Munich)
> 880 + 862 = 1742 *Natas promo, U class, 7d/1m tkt
> 1300 + 862 = 2162 * normal lowest fare, 7d/1m tkt

LX - Swiss Air (via Zurich)
> 1100 + 631 = 1731 *Lowest normal fare, T class, -/12 mth tkt

SQ - Singapore Airlines (direct)
> 1250 + 501 = 1751 (min 4 to go promo,cannot fly by a380)*n class, 3d/1m tkt
> 1450 + 501 = 1951 (min 2 to go)*q class, 3d/1m tkt
> 1700 + 501 = 2201 *e class, -/1m tkt

QR - Qatar Airways (via doha)
> 1032 + 453 = 1485 *v class, 5d/1m tkt
> 1105 + 453 = 1558 *H class, -/3m tkt

TG - Thai Airways (via Bangkok Survanabhumi)
> 765 + 1049 = 1814 *v class, 5d/1m tkt natas promo
> 924 + 1049 = 1973 * v class, -/3m tkt, normal fare

TK - Turkish Airways (via Istanbul)
> 1239 + 703 = 1942 *E class, 1 mth tkt

MU - China Eastern (via Shanghai Pudong)
> 600 + 919 = 1519 *Q class, all year long fare, -/45 d tkt

CA - Air China (via Beijing)
> 950 + 919 = 1869 *W class, -/30d tkt

Conclusion: its costly to fly to london due to the high airport surcharges, flying to paris may be slightly cheaper, other parts of europe will usually be cheaper, but also depending on seat availability. Taxes & fuel surcharge are subjected to change, its even more difficult to predict as compared to stock market.

/ 1:45 pm

write about yourself here like how you lived through a crisis like the morrocian crisis. erps, have you studied about that before and about your test, how easy it is and how much confidence you have to pass and get all A1s for all subjects, add in your own wish here, and what you would do if target is not reached, like slash your wrist, eat many many painkiller pills at one shot and die. lol it's suicidal thoughts. stay away from that. but you need to enter a reality, everyone's doing that- it's the trend, so why not follow it. unless you want to be an odd one out. cause slashing wrist is soo common in girls school not in boys school. boys suicide, just like die gracefully from 30th storey, just look on the bright side, maybe you have lived in a lie too long and so you have found out the turth now, just think. optimist wins. you have entered into a world of reality



We know life's hard, truth is hard, lies are hard, they are all hard to accept when they have been found out, and i'm rushing history homework on the Abyissian Crisis about Italy and Abyssia going into war and that the League Of Nations cannot stop this from happening, and beacuse they are formed by means to stop war and peace-keep the countries together, they have thus failed to achieve that. I think i tend to hold a class for history instead of telling you about me, i'm basically a what subject-realted lover (humanities) and thus I am more analytical and critical about things, and likes to study about dead people, haha. lol. it's history what can you expect and also geography, it amazes me. I really like it alot, so what have you? Again to find this answer you need to enter into your own reality and reflect




it's amazing. amzing how people change the way of things, like how I used to hate outdoors in Band felt it was a complete waste of time, i've acquired to like it more, i guess people change, their thereotical means and applications in life just goes on into a new direction, and see things in another perspective, i guess- it's all in the mind. It really amazes me how these comes into action, from someone so pessimistic has changed his own view of things, and thus my friend is scoring much better, being more optimisitc and not think of his old way of suicidal thoughts, which are pretty daunting. and thus we need to see things, in another light, another perspective and another new way, to enable us to open up our minds, and make more new things, the new way it is. done with the old back with the new

i've hiatus-ed.

/ 1:25 pm

Comparison of fares from Singapore to London:

After a series of monthly checks since Jan 08, i must comment the taxes & fuel surcharge have went up tremendously, who would have imagined the fares can be so high? But as what i have mentioned to some, this is the future of flying, costs are gonna be high. What irks me is that some people whom i have seen at the travel fair claims that last year it was only 1.2k after taxes to London; what i will reply is last year is last year, lets face reality, do your maths, calculate the price of a gallon of oil for your flight and divide it by the number of passengers, do you think its reasonable?

Lets face the fact, for such 12-18h long journey to London, the fuel cost alone for a flight would run up to as many as US$60k, a "bad" airline will past the cost to the consumers leading to very ex surcharge, but while a "good" airline will know how to cope with high fuel costs by hedging against price rises and maintaining cost efficiencies. Their yield management just says it all - efficient. Airlines like Cathay Pacific have limitations in increasing fuel surcharge due to govt regulations, so lets be glad. Apparently, they are covering the extra cost that they cannot pass to consumers, leading to fare increase wef 01 sep 08. Some airlines like Emirates & Sri Lanka Airways include their fuel surcharge into the airfare nett price, thats gd, but that also means that their airfare will be expensive than the rest since it includes fuel surcharge (YQ).

what makes up an airfare:
airfare nett + tax (airport, security, terrorist), surcharges (navigation, insurance, new plane surcharge), fuel surcharge = total cost.

Fuel surcharge will defintely more or less takes up the bulk of the total cost

why taxes go up & down?
currency fluctuations. fuel costs & external airport tax are in us dollars or others, there is a rate of exchange IATA provides, hence the fluctuations.

How? Lets anaylze:

*All prices shown are in SGP dollars, cheapest economy fare & promo NATAS fares
* Prices & fuel surcharge based on 03 aug 08
* Prices are nett, exclude travel agent services fee if any
* List is not exhaustive, every airline has a whole long list of booking classes just for economy alone, chances are that during peak periods, all the lowest fares are fully booked, leaving you with the 3k+ tkt. its common.
*Fares are based on airfare (A) + taxes & fuel surcharge (B). e.g. 850 (A) + 1058 (B) = cost
* v class 6d/1m tkt = "V" booking class, min stay: 6d, max stay: 1mth

AF - Air France (via Paris CDG):
> 850 + 1058 = 1908 *Natas promo, v class 6d/1m tkt
> 1160 + 1058 = 2218 *Normal tkt lowest price, L class, 6d/1m tkt

BA - British Airways/Qantas (direct)
> 998 + 769 = 1767 *Natas promo, n class, -/12mth tkt
> 1048 + 769 = 1817 *Normal tkt lowest fare, V class, /-12m tkt

CX - Cathay Pacific (via HK)
> 1628 + 609 = 2237 *Normal lowest fare, v class , /-6m tkt

EK - Emirates (via Dubai)
> 1288 + 185 = 1473 *Natas promo, B class, 3d/30d tkt, sin-dxb on ek352, 353 only
> 1499 + 185 = 1684 *same as above, m class
> 1799 + 185 = 1984 *The hidden min 2 to go fare, not many know its existence
> 2012 + 185 = 2197 * The lowest fare for normal price tkt, W class, 3d/30d tkt

EY - Etihad (via Abu Dhabi)
> 1250 + 465 = 1715 *Normal fare, Q class, -/3m tkt

JL - Japan Airlines (via Tokyo Narita)
> no point seeing the airfare, taxes is at sgd1393 alone.

MH - Malaysian Airlines (via Kuala lumpur)
>930 + 869 = 1799 *Natas promo, L class, flight restrictions, 30d tkt
>1170 + 869 = 2039 *Normal lowest far, S class, /-6m tkt

KL - KLM Royal Dutch (via Amsterdam schipol)
> 850 + 1013 = 1863 *Natas promo, v class, 7d/1m tkt
> 950 + 1013 = 1963 * Normal lowest fare tkt,v class, 7d/1m tkt

LH - Lufthansa Airlines (via Frankfurt/Munich)
> 880 + 862 = 1742 *Natas promo, U class, 7d/1m tkt
> 1300 + 862 = 2162 * normal lowest fare, 7d/1m tkt

LX - Swiss Air (via Zurich)
> 1100 + 631 = 1731 *Lowest normal fare, T class, -/12 mth tkt

SQ - Singapore Airlines (direct)
> 1250 + 501 = 1751 (min 4 to go promo,cannot fly by a380)*n class, 3d/1m tkt
> 1450 + 501 = 1951 (min 2 to go)*q class, 3d/1m tkt
> 1700 + 501 = 2201 *e class, -/1m tkt

QR - Qatar Airways (via doha)
> 1032 + 453 = 1485 *v class, 5d/1m tkt
> 1105 + 453 = 1558 *H class, -/3m tkt

TG - Thai Airways (via Bangkok Survanabhumi)
> 765 + 1049 = 1814 *v class, 5d/1m tkt natas promo
> 924 + 1049 = 1973 * v class, -/3m tkt, normal fare

TK - Turkish Airways (via Istanbul)
> 1239 + 703 = 1942 *E class, 1 mth tkt

MU - China Eastern (via Shanghai Pudong)
> 600 + 919 = 1519 *Q class, all year long fare, -/45 d tkt

CA - Air China (via Beijing)
> 950 + 919 = 1869 *W class, -/30d tkt

Conclusion: its costly to fly to london due to the high airport surcharges, flying to paris may be slightly cheaper, other parts of europe will usually be cheaper, but also depending on seat availability. Taxes & fuel surcharge are subjected to change, its even more difficult to predict as compared to stock market.

/ 1:45 pm