C) Savings Flying in non-coach status would involve significant cost savings to MCC when compared to the lowest price non-refundable or restricted
coach class fare.
Tim Geithner had been spotted in
coach class on a domestic flight.
The 13-day/10-night package visits Melbourne and Cairns and includes international
coach class air from Los Angeles; internal
coach class air in Australia; roundtrip private airport transfers; five nights in Melbourne; a Yarra Valley tour; a Savannah Walkabout Wildlife tour; a Lanes and Arcades Walking tour; five nights in Cairns (First Class) or Port Douglas (Deluxe); a Great Barrier Reef tour; Tablelands, Waterfalls and Spanish Castles; a Highlander Food Trail tour; 10 breakfasts; and seven lunches.
The itinerary includes international
coach class air from New York (JFK); private roundtrip airport transfers; internal coach-class flights in Egypt; four nights in Cairo at Swiss Inn Golf Pyramids; private Memphis, Sakkara, Pyramids and Sphinx full-day tour; private Egyptian Museum, Citadel and Mosques full-day tour; four-night Nile River Cruise from Luxor to Aswan aboard Movenpick Radamis I; all excursions while cruising; one night in Cairo at Novotel Cairo Airport; entrance fees to sights as listed in itinerary; and nine breakfasts, four lunches and four dinners.
The route will be served by Boeing 757-200 aircraft with 20 seats in World Business Class and 160 seats in
coach class.
Although meals in
coach class on domestic flights largely have disappeared, most airlines offer meals on flights longer than five hours.
It will carry 36 passengers in World Business Class and 185 in
Coach Class and will have a non-stop range of up to 8,500 nautical miles, use 20 percent less fuel than today's planes of comparable size, provide up to 45 percent more cargo capacity, and include new interior environments with higher humidity, wider seats and aisles, larger windows and other in-flight conveniences.
Hopkins of the Charlotte Observer, Iverson "was a corporate CEO who answered his own phone, flew
coach class, never had an executive parking spot and ran a multi-billion dollar company from a nondescript building with about 30 people.
Hawaiian is offering an introductory roundtrip fare of USD499, plus fees and taxes, for
coach class seating, between Honolulu and Manila, for travel purchases through 31 May 2008, made via the airline's website or phone reservations.
