On Wed, 18 May 2011 16:50:57 -0400 (EDT), Asheesh Laroia
<ashe...@asheesh.org> wrote:
On Wed, 18 May 2011, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
Apparently if we use Star Alliance Meetings Plus (as opposed to
Convention Plus) we can do it with as little as 30 days lead time and
50 participants from 3 countries. For Star Alliance Convention Plus we
need six months lead time, but unfortunately a minimum of 500
participants which is unlikely for us even for DebConf12. SkyTeam
Global Meetings requires at least 50 participants from 2 countries and
an unspecified lead time. Once we register, those agreements are
probably reusable in future years, assuming we use one of our
long-standing legal entities like SPI or FFIS.
Shall I contact Star Alliance and SkyTeam and see what's possible
for DebConf11? It would still help to know who would be interested in
using one of these arrangements, via one of those airline alliances,
who hasn't booked their DebConf11 flights yet. We'd also need to make
a separate group booking for whatever form(s) of transport we use for
the last leg to/from Banja Luka, if we want a discount for that, since
those airlines don't go there.
Please still speak up if you're interested in my original idea;
single-flight or even multi-flight/single-airline group bookings
probably have lower thresholds if these programs are available with
the numbers I quoted above.
I'm interested in any of these, pending details that work, and
actually fairly flexible on which US city to fly from, though I
prefer
BOS.
Please start wiki'ing this now! :)
http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/GroupsDiscountAirfare
Regards,
--
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
http://tiagovaz.org
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