Hi, On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:18:11AM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > On 03/19/2013 09:29 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Allison Randal dijo [Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 06:24:11PM -0700]: > >> > >> Aiming for an approximate average on flight price, figuring US/Canada > >> flights could be as low as $300, while international flights could be > >> $2000 or higher. (Numbers from past years will be helpful in these > >> projections too.) > > > > I expected flight prices to be quite lower. Still, for DebConf10 (I > > expect numbers to be closest to what we had at New York), 88 out of > > 306 attendees (marked as reconfirmed and arrived) were from within the > > USA (and the second most popular country was "not selected" ;-) ). I > > was surprised to see that, for July, ticket prices from Paris and > > Frankfurt are at ~US$1500, quite higher than what I expected. > > > > This following query does *not* mean the requested travel sponsorship > > was fulfilled, but requested, and that the person attended, and was > > labeled as "the amount needed for you to travel" (need_travel_cost): > > > > acronym | avg > > ---------+----------------------- > > dc7 | 574.9236000000000000 > > dc8 | 1070.1224489795918367 > > dc9 | 435.2346428571428571 > > dc10 | 819.6127500000000000 > > dc11 | 612.6257142857142857 > > dc12 | 981.0483870967741935 > > Ah, excellent! I'll go with $800 for approximate average flight > sponsorship cost, since New York is geographically closest. It's > possible that we'd get more local applications that lower the average, > or more international applications that raise the average, but it's a > good first approximation.
Note that NYC has better (much more direct) connectivity especially from europe and I would estimate the average to be at least 50-150$ higher than for NYC as connecting flights have to be factored in etc. Michael _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
