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30.09.2011, 15:24
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| | | Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Basle?
Been searching flights to Spain today and they're 2/3rds cheaper from Geneva than Zurich. This is so unfair!!
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30.09.2011, 15:25
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
Because they got a fancy tunnel that "moooooohs" like a cow.
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30.09.2011, 15:33
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
Go to Geneva then...?
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30.09.2011, 15:35
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
Strangely enough, when I went to Istambul last year it was cheaper to take the plane in Geneva and change in Zurich than going straight to Zurich...
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30.09.2011, 15:35
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
| Quote: | |  | | | Been searching flights to Spain today and they're 2/3rds cheaper from Geneva than Zurich. This is so unfair!! | | | | |
take the train to geneva then, simple
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30.09.2011, 15:37
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
closer, innit
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30.09.2011, 15:40
| | | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
| Quote: | | | | | take the train to geneva then, simple | | | | | Not really the train fare is huge from Zurich to Geneva so sort of brings an abrupt end to the idea of a "cheap" flight. I'm sure there's ways to bring it down though.
Then again a convience thing +3 hrs on the train to geneva is a PITA
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30.09.2011, 15:44
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
I think its all about demand. If the demand is high then the cost reflects this demand. You would like to think that high demand means a better price but the world no longer works like that. Just another way to make money faster.
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30.09.2011, 15:44
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
| Quote: | | | | | Not really the train fare is huge from Zurich to Geneva so sort of brings an abrupt end to the idea of a "cheap" flight. I'm sure there's ways to bring it down though.
Then again a convience thing +3 hrs on the train to geneva is a PITA | | | | |
not if you have a GA card 
the time is a pita and geneva airport is a shithole too
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30.09.2011, 15:59
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
| Quote: | | | | | not if you have a GA card
the time is a pita and geneva airport is a shithole too | | | | | its a perfectly nice airport  |
30.09.2011, 16:02
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
| Quote: | | | | | its a perfectly nice airport | | | | | Compared to a Turkish prison?
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30.09.2011, 16:17
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
| Quote: | | | | | its a perfectly nice airport | | | | |
I must admit I have only used geneva twice, and while zurich is spacious, clean, organised, and well Swiss, Geneva is small, cramped, dirty and, well, french | | The following 2 users would like to thank bigblue2 for this useful post: | |
30.09.2011, 16:19
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
Higher landing fees at ZH??
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30.09.2011, 16:28
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
| Quote: | | | | | Strangely enough, when I went to Istambul last year it was cheaper to take the plane in Geneva and change in Zurich than going straight to Zurich... | | | | | Normal enough. In many places such as the US, fligts are more expensive out of major hubs than through them. Demand is part of it, though I often heard - unconfirmed - that government subsidizes routes to less popular stops to maintain availability.
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30.09.2011, 16:34
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| | | Re: Why are flights from Zurich so much more expensive than flights from Geneva or Ba
Not quite on-topic BUT:
If you are time-rich and price sensitive you are often advised to HUB-SWAP. This is the practice of taking a short-haul flight from your local hub to another - and then the long-haul flight.
The hubs are where major carriers are based - and so try to tempt rival airline passengers with lower prices. If you are flying from LONDON it is often cheaper to hub-swap to Paris (Air France), Frankfurt/Munich (Lufthansa), Amserdam (KLM), Zuirch (Swiss) than it is to fly BA from Heathrow.
It costs around 3 hours in flight times though.
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