On Mar 30, 3:31*pm, wrote:

The real blackmail is in the holiday companies and airlines stiffing people
with exhorbitant fares during school holidays. There's no reason for them to
do it , they just do it because they can. Its naked profiteering.

There is more demand for a limited commodity, ergo the price is
higher. That's just market economics.

The cheaper prices at other times encourages those who can (those
without children, primarily) to holiday at other times.

Neil

On 30/03/2012 14:42, Neil Williams wrote:
On Mar 30, 3:31 pm, wrote:

The real blackmail is in the holiday companies and airlines stiffing people
with exhorbitant fares during school holidays. There's no reason for them to
do it , they just do it because they can. Its naked profiteering.

There is more demand for a limited commodity, ergo the price is
higher. That's just market economics.

The cheaper prices at other times encourages those who can (those
without children, primarily) to holiday at other times.

Though the absence of children is also an encouragement in itself.

--
Arthur Herod Figgis Surrey, UK

On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:40:53 +0100
Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 30/03/2012 14:42, Neil Williams wrote:
On Mar 30, 3:31 pm, wrote:

The real blackmail is in the holiday companies and airlines stiffing people
with exhorbitant fares during school holidays. There's no reason for them to
do it , they just do it because they can. Its naked profiteering.

There is more demand for a limited commodity, ergo the price is
higher. That's just market economics.

The cheaper prices at other times encourages those who can (those
without children, primarily) to holiday at other times.

Though the absence of children is also an encouragement in itself.

Agreed. I wish I could understand the mentality of parents who think its
perfectly ok for their little prince or princess to scream their lungs out
for hours when other people are trying to relax.

B2003